Rajasthan Film Festival


The Rajasthan Film Festival Award ceremony is a set of awards presented annually to honor both artistic and technical excellence of artists in Rajasthani cinema as well as in other Regional Cinema. The awards began in 2013. This year award ceremony was held in September for 3 days. Shreyas Talpade was the host of the event and many other prominent celebrities spotted at the event included Shakti Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Rajesh Puri, Komal Nahta, Aniruddh Dave, Neha Shree, Aniruddh Singh and Others. This year theme of the festival was Unity in diversity and under that 24 awards will be awarded into 2 broad categories, For films produced in Rajasthan and, For films produced in other regions of India. During the event Bollywood Actor Shakti Kapoor got the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Last Year the award ceremony was organized for 5 Days at Maan Palace, in Jaipur. Vatsal Seth was the host of the award night and the celebrities Jeetendra Kapoor, Mithoon Sharma, Neelu Vaghela, Gajendra Chauhan, Anirudh Dave and Sara Khan made their presence. In 2017, the ceremony was held at Deep Smriti Auditorium, on 14 to 16 September 2017.

History

The first awards were presented in 2013 at Rajasthan, India. From then onwards, the awards are held at various locations of Jaipur. From 2013 - 2016 the event was held for one day but in 2018 the event has expanded from a one-night event to a five-day celebration, hosting various events and activities relating to the Rajasthani Cinema.
Sanjana Sharma is the founder of Rajasthan Film Festival. In its 6th edition, the RRF has organized this event for 5 days. The event was started with theater competition held on 25 - 27 September. On 28 September, inter college dance competition was organize where several people from Rajasthani Film Industry shared their thoughts about Rajasthan cinema and on the last day of event, awards were given to the various categories by RFF.

Award ceremonies

The following is a listing of all Rajasthan Film Festival Awards ceremonies since 2013
YearDateBest FilmHostVenueCityLifetime Achievement AwardChief Guest
201328 September 2013Bhobhar
Us Disha Mai 		RJ Moniya
Anchor Kabeer
Anchor Mann		Deep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurMohanSingh Rathore
Kshitiz Kumar
Ramesh Tiwari
Neelu Vaghela
Gulabo Sapera

O.P. Vyas
Veena Cassettes
Modern Cassettes		Dr.Mahesh Joshi
201420 September 2014Kahani Ek Devi KiAshok Banthia
Anchor Kabeer		Deep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurKomal Nahta
Shyam Sunder Jalani		T. P. Aggarwal
201526 September 2015Raju RathodAnup Soni
Arun Bakshi
Meena Nahta
RJ Mohit
Ravinder Upadhyay		Jaipur BaghJaipurMohan KatariaSubhash Ghai
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
201624 September 2016Hivade Me Fute LaaduAman Verma
RJ Mohit		Maan PalaceJaipurIkram RajasthaniJaved Akhtar
201716 September 2017Nani Bai Ro MayroAman Verma
Mahendra Gaur
Anirudh Dave
Rohit Purohit
Himanshu Soni
RJ Mohit		Deep Smriti Auditorium JaipurJaipurPandit Vishwa Mohan BhattJaiprakash Chouksey
201825 to 29 September 2018Birani SardarVatsal SethMaan PalaceJaipurBharat NahtaJeetendra Kapoor
Mithun Sharma
Neelu Vaghela
201928 September 2019

Veerangana
Qismat

Shreyas TalpadeMaan PalaceJaipurShakti KapoorKomal Nahta
Satish Kaushik
Rajesh Puri
Aniruddh Dave

Awards

Rajasthani Film ( Category-A)