Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016

Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016
Date	May 14, 2016 (2016-05-14)– May 15, 2016 (2016-05-15)
Site	Church field, Tezpur, India
Hosted by	Barsha Rani Bishaya Kopil Bora Nishita Goswami
Organized by	Prag AM Television Pvt. Ltd.
Highlights
Best Film	Antareen
Best Direction	Reema Borah Bokul
Best Actor	Pranjal Saikia Lokabandhoo
Best Actress	Urmila Mahanta Antareen
Most nominations	Antareeen (10) Kothanodi (10)
Television coverage
Channel	Prag News

The Prag Cine Awards North-East 2016 ceremony, presented by the Prag Network, honoured the actors, technical achievements, and films censored in 2015 from Assam and rest of Northeast India, took place on May 14–15, 2016 at the Church field in Tezpur, Assam. Film fraternities from Northeast as well as Bollywood personalities such as Suniel Shetty, Meiyang Chang were present in this event.

Actress Bidya Rao was honored with the lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution towards the Assamese film Industry, while model and actress Dipannita Sharma and sound engineer Amrit Pritam Dutta were presented with "Golden Icon" award. Pranjal Saikia received best actor award for Lokabandhoo and the best actress award has gone to Urmila Mahanta for Antareen. Manjul Baruah directed Antareen won the best film award, while Onaatah, Khasi language film from Meghalaya, won the best film north-east award.

Winners and nominees

In this edition of Prag Cine Awards, awards were given in 19 different categories to the Assamese films produced from Assam which were censored in the year of 2015. Kothanodi and Antareen topped the nomination list with ten nominations each.

Awards for films from Assam

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film	Best Popular Film
Antareen Bokul Kothanodi	Khel - The Game
	Best Film other than Assamese
	Dau Huduni Methai – Bodo
Best Director	Best Debut Director
Reema Borah – Bokul Bhaskar Hazarika – Kothanodi Ratan Sil Sarma – Marksheet	Ratan Sil Sarma – Marksheet Bhaskar Hazarika – Kothanodi Manjul Baruah – Antareen
Best Actor Male	Best Actor Female
Pranjal Saikia – Lokabandhoo Ashok Singh – Cactus Boloram Das – Antareen Lakhi Borthakur – Jajabor	Urmila Mahanta – Antareen Barsha Rani Bishaya – Khel - The Game Mitali Dey – Saat Nomboror Sandhanat Prastuti Parashar – Mriganabhi
Best Supporting Actor Male	Best Supporting Actor Female
Kulada Kumar Bhattacharya – Cactus Arun Nath – Antareen Kopil Bora – Kothanodi	Kasvi Sarma – Kothanodi Aparna Dutta Choudhury – Antareen Simi Ryan – Cactus
Best Music Direction	Best Lyrics
Tarali Sarma – Mriganabhi Amar Nath Hazarika – Kothanodi Anil Saikia – Saat Nomboror Sandhanat	Tarali Sarma – Antareen Ibson Lal Baruah – Marksheet - Pagol Uxaah Keshaba Nanda Goswami – Nodi Mathu Boi
Best Playback Singer Male	Best Playback Singer Female
Mrinal Baishnab – Marksheet - Loralir Dhemali Jitul Sonowal – Love in Bangkok Saurav Mahanta – Nodi Mathu Boi	Madhusmita Borthakur – Khel - The Game Geeta Shree – Sat Nomboror Xondhanot Tarali Sarma – Antareen
Best Cinematography	Best Film Editing
Suman Dowerah – Antareen Arup Manna – Cactus Suraj Kumar Duwara – Mriganabhi	Rantu Chetia and Jasir Imtiaz – Bokul Hiranya Kalita – Cactus Ratan Sil Sarma – Marksheet
Best Screenplay	Best Choreography
Bhaskar Hazarika – Kothanodi Arup Manna – Cactus Himjyoti Talukdar – Marksheet	Uday Shankar – Khel - The Game Pankaj Ingti – Saat Nomboror Sandhanat Upashana Mahanta – Nodi Mathu Boi
Best Sound Recordist	Best Art Direction
Bibek Basumatary – Bokul Jatin Sharma – Kothanodi Jatin Sharma and Diganta Bordoloi – '	Gulok Saha – Kothanodi Rama Ray and Anup Hazarika – Antareen Sandeep Patil and Reema Bora – Bokul
Best Makeup	Best Costume
Sanku Baruah and Bishwajit Das – Lokabandhoo Akash Gogoi and Subhash Shrestha – Khel - The Game Babul Das and Bishwajit Kalita – Mriganabhi	Rani Dutta Baruah – Kothanodi Prashanta Ghose and Adityam – Khel - The Game Sehnaz Sultan – Saat Nomboror Sandhanat

Awards for films from rest of northeast India

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film North-East	Best Director North-East
Onaatah (Meghalaya, Khasi)	Pradip Kurbah – Onaatah (Meghalaya, Khasi)
Best Actor North-East Male	Best Actor North-East Female
Nokshaa Saham – The Head Hunter (Arunachal Pradesh, Wancho)	Sweety Pala – Onaatah (Meghalaya, Khasi) and L. Tonthoingambi – Patkee Tharo (Manipur, Meitei)

Honorary awards

Lifetime Achievement Award

Veteran actress Bidya Rao will be honoured with the lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution towards the Assamese film Industry.

Golden Icon Awards

Model and actress Dipannita Sharma, and sound engineer Amrit Pritam Dutta were honoured with Golden Icon Awards.

Other awards

• Jury's Special Mention: Aditya Malla Buzarbaruah and Abhijit Chowdhury – Marksheet
• Jury's Special Mention: Nilanjan Datta – The Head Hunter
• Best Critic (Writing on Cinema): Manoj Barpujari

See also

• List of Assamese films of the 2010s