awards and accolades always boost an artistes morale and it encourages himher to do better work and its even more special if you have won an award for your debut project filmmaker satyaprakash upadhyay would know his directorial debut in the documentary space bunkar the last of the varanasi weavers has won the best film arts and culture at the 66th national film awards earlier this year satyaprakash had won the best debut director documentary award at the jaipur international film festival jiff 2019 while he has assisted many bollywood filmmakers previously bunkar the last of the varanasi weavers is his first independent nonfeature film the hourlong documentary revolves around the life of a weaver of varanasi needless to say the director is thrilled to win the national award talking to a daily he said that this is the biggest honour an indian filmmaker can get he also said that the award brings with it a lot of responsibility and expectations as far as his future projects are concerned satyaprakash also said that he hopes that his film will help the handloom weavers of varanasi he said that the root cause of their plight is the common mans ignorance for example a huge section of buyers are not able to differentiate a banarasi powerloom from a handloom he said that such issues can be resolved only by spreading awareness