National Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

The National Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role is an honour presented annually at India's National Film Awards ceremony by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), an organisation set up by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.^[1] Since 1984, the award is given by a national panel appointed annually by the NFDC to an actress for the best performance in a supporting role within Indian cinema.^[1][2] It is presented by the President of India at a ceremony held in New Delhi.^[3] Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "Best Actress in a Supporting Role".^[4]

National Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
National award for contributions to Indian cinema
The 2023 recipients: Urvashi and Janki Bodiwala
Awarded for	Best performance by an actress in a supporting role
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called	National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (1984–2021)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	1984
Final award	2022
Most recent winner	Urvashi, Ullozhukku Janki Bodiwala, Vash
Highlights
Total awarded	41
First winner	Rohini Hattangadi
Website	https://dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6

The winner is given a "Rajat Kamal" (Silver Lotus) certificate and a cash prize of ₹2,00,000.^[a] Including ties and repeat winners, the NFDC has presented a total of 41 Best Supporting Actress awards to 35 different actresses. Although Indian cinema produces films in more than 20 languages,^[1] the performances of films that have won awards are of 11 languages: Hindi (20 awards), Malayalam (8 awards), Bengali (4 awards), Tamil (4 awards), English (2 awards), Gujarati (1 award), Haryanvi (1 award), Marathi (1 award), Meitei (1 award), Odia (1 award) and Urdu (1 award).

The first recipient was Rohini Hattangadi, who was honoured at the 32nd National Film Awards for her performance in the Hindi film Party (1984).^[7] As of 2023^[update] edition, Surekha Sikri has been honoured thrice for her Hindi films – Tamas (1987), Mammo (1994) and Badhaai Ho (2018).^[8] K. P. A. C. Lalitha won the award two times for her work in the Malayalam films Amaram (1990) and Shantham (2000)^[9] along with Pallavi Joshi for her work in Hindi films The Tashkent Files (2019) and The Kashmir Files (2021) and Urvashi for her works in Malayalam films Achuvinte Amma (2005) and Ullozhukku (2023). Egyptian actress Aida El-Kashef, who was honoured at the 61st National Film Awards for her performance in the English-Hindi film Ship of Theseus (2013) is the only non-Indian actress to win the award.^[10] Urvashi and Kalpana are the only siblings to receive the honour. Ties between two actresses have occurred in the years 1999, 2012, 2013 and 2023. Sharmila Tagore, Konkona Sen Sharma and Kangana Ranaut are the three actresses to receive honours in both acting categories: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. The most recent recipients of the award are Urvashi and Janki Bodiwala, who were honoured at the 71st National Film Awards ceremony for their performance in the 2023 films Ullozhukku and Vash respectively.

Recipients

Key

Symbol	Meaning
†	Indicates a joint award for that year

Rohini Hattangadi is the first-ever recipient of the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in Hindi film Party in 1984.

Surekha Sikri has been the most honoured (three times) actress in the category.^[8]

Sharmila Tagore (top), Konkona Sen Sharma (middle) and Kangana Ranaut (bottom) have received honours in both acting categories: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.^[11]

List of award recipients, showing the year, role, film and language(s).

Year[b]	Recipient	Role	Work	Language(s)	Ref.[c]
1984 (32nd)	Rohini Hattangadi	Mohini Barve	Party	Hindi	[2]
1985 (33rd)	Vijaya Mehta	Mausi	Rao Saheb	Hindi	[12]
1986 (34th)	Manjula Kanwar	Champa	Bhangala Silata	Odia	[13]
1987 (35th)	Surekha Sikri	Rajo	Tamas	Hindi	[14]
1988 (36th)	Uttara Baokar	Sudha	Ek Din Achanak	Hindi	[15]
1989 (37th)	Manorama	Unknown	Pudhea Paadhai	Tamil	[16]
1990 (38th)	K. P. A. C. Lalitha	Bhargavi	Amaram	Malayalam	[17]
1991 (39th)	Santha Devi	Unknown	Yamanam	Malayalam	[18]
1992 (40th)	Revathi	Panchavarnam	Thevar Magan	Tamil	[19]
1993 (41st)	Neena Gupta	Geeta Devi	Woh Chokri	Hindi	[20]
1994 (42nd)	Surekha Sikri	Fayyazi	Mammo	Hindi	[21]
1995 (43rd)	Aranmula Ponnamma	Grandmother	Kathapurushan	Malayalam	[22]
1996 (44th)	Rajeshwari Sachdev	Sakina	Sardari Begum	Urdu	[23]
1997 (45th)	Karisma Kapoor	Nisha Sandhu	Dil To Pagal Hai	Hindi	[24]
1998 (46th)	Suhasini Mulay	Maltibai Barve	Hu Tu Tu	Hindi	[25]
1999 (47th) †	Sudipta Chakraborty	Malati	Bariwali	Bengali	[26]
	Sohini Sengupta	Khuku	Paromitar Ek Din	Bengali
2000 (48th)	K. P. A. C. Lalitha	Narayani	Shantham	Malayalam	[27]
2001 (49th)	Ananya Khare	Deepa Pandey	Chandni Bar	Hindi	[28]
2002 (50th)	Rakhee Gulzar	Ranga Pishima	Shubho Mahurat	Bengali	[29]
2003 (51st)	Sharmila Tagore	Aparna	Abar Aranye	Bengali	[30]
2004 (52nd)	Sheela	Margaret D'Costa	Akale	Malayalam	[31]
2005 (53rd)	Urvashi	K. P. Vanaja	Achuvinte Amma	Malayalam	[6]
2006 (54th)	Konkona Sen Sharma	Indu Tyagi	Omkara	Hindi	[32]
2007 (55th)	Shefali Shah	Vandana	The Last Lear	English	[33]
2008 (56th)	Kangana Ranaut	Shonali Gujral	Fashion	Hindi	[34]
2009 (57th)	Arundathi Nag	Bhumi "Bum" Bhardwaj	Paa	Hindi	[35]
2010 (58th)	Sukumari	Ammini Amma	Namma Gramam	Tamil	[36]
2011 (59th)	Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi	Yaipabhee	Phijigee Mani	Meitei	[37]
2012 (60th) †	Dolly Ahluwalia	Dolly Arora	Vicky Donor	Hindi	[38]
	Kalpana	Razia Beevi	Thanichalla Njan	Malayalam
2013 (61st) †	Amruta Subhash	Channamma	Astu	Marathi	[10]
	Aida El-Kashef	Aliya Kamal	Ship of Theseus	English/Hindi
2014 (62nd)	Baljinder Kaur	Unknown	Pagdi – The Honour	Haryanvi	[39]
2015 (63rd)	Tanvi Azmi	Radhabai	Bajirao Mastani	Hindi	[40]
2016 (64th)	Zaira Wasim	Young Geeta Phogat	Dangal	Hindi	[41]
2017 (65th)	Divya Dutta	Ramadeep Braitch	Irada	Hindi	[42]
2018 (66th)	Surekha Sikri	Durga Devi Kaushik ("Dadi")	Badhaai Ho	Hindi	[43]
2019 (67th)	Pallavi Joshi	Ayisha Ali Shah	The Tashkent Files	Hindi	[44]
2020 (68th)	Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli	Sivaranjini	Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum	Tamil	[45]
2021 (69th)	Pallavi Joshi	Radhika Menon	The Kashmir Files	Hindi	[46]
2022 (70th)	Neena Gupta	Shabina Siddiqui	Uunchai	Hindi	[47]
2023 (71st) †	Janki Bodiwala	Aarya	Vash	Gujarati	[48]
	Urvashi	Leelamma	Ullozhukku	Malayalam

See also

• List of Indian film actresses

Footnotes

1. The cash prize was ₹50,000, from 54th National Film Awards (2006) until 69th National Film Awards (2021).^[5] Before the 54th National Film Awards (2006), the cash prize was ₹10,000 (US$120).^[6]
2. Year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification.
3. The reference cites the winner and the role played by them in the film. While there are some sources that are written in both English and Hindi, other references are entirely in Hindi.