Who was the first recipient of the Best Actor at the National Film Awards?
Uttam Kumar
The National Film Awards are the most prestigious government-recognised film honours in India, presented annually to reward excellence in cinema across all Indian languages and administered today through the Directorate of Film Festivals under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The competitive category of Best Actor at these awards was instituted in 1967, and the honour was first presented for films of that year.
The inaugural Best Actor award was won by the celebrated Bengali actor Uttam Kumar, often called 'Mahanayak' (the great hero) of Bengali cinema, honoured for his performances in the films Antony Firingee and Chiriyakhana.
Prithviraj Kapoor was a towering pioneer of Hindi theatre and cinema and the patriarch of the Kapoor film family, but he was not the first winner of this particular award.
Ashok Kumar and Dev Anand were hugely popular and acclaimed stars of Hindi cinema, yet neither received the very first Best Actor award at the National Film Awards.
Since the category began in 1967 and the first trophy went to the Bengali screen legend, the first Best Actor at the National Film Awards was Uttam Kumar.
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