won the award for best supporting actor award for the marathi film shevri he had played a benign middleclass clerk in shevri and the award was given to him for portraying two diverse and equally challenging characters vishal bharadwaj directed omkara received the special jury award for being an outstanding film that synergises an international treatment with an earthy rooted sensibility omkara also brought the best supporting honour for konkona sen sharma it won the best audiography award for k j singh and subhash sahoo punjabi film waris shahishq da waris an evocative portrayal of the rich sufi tradition won four national awards for the best film in punjabi best art direction rashid rangrez best costume designer manjit mann and best male playback singer for gurdas mann the best female playback singer award went to noted vocalist aarti anklekar tikekar for konkani film antarnad which also won the best music direction award for ashok patki as also the best feature film in konkani the film also brought divya chahadkar the best child artiste award for portraying a talented child overshadowed by a celebrity mother english film quest which boldly addresses issues of sexuality got the award for the best film in the language the film was directed by noted filmmaker amol palekar director goutam ghose won the award for best cinematography for his hindi film yatra nargis dutt award for best feature film on national integration was won by kannada film kallarli huvagi under the nonfeature film category bishar blues directed by amitabh chakraborty won the award for best nonfeature film the best first nonfeature film of a director award was won by jacob varghese for andhiyum best biographicalhistorical reconstructioncompilation film award jointly went to m r rajan directed minukku and aribam syam sharmas guru laimayum thambalngoubi devi under the national award for best writing in cinema category award for the best book on cinema 2006 was given to jerry pinto for his book helen the life and times of an hbomb english minister for information and broadcasting p r dasmunsi while addressing the ceremony at the vigyan bhavan here said two new categories namely award for best make up and animation had been instituted anil moti ram palande became the first recipient of award in the best make up artiste category for the film traffic signal nokpokliba won the award for the best animation film the other new category introduced by the government dasmunsi added that in recognition of the hard work of film artistes and technicians the government had introduced a fivefold increase in the cash component of all the categories of the national awards