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Lage Raho Munnabhai ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ became the first Hindi film sequel to repeat the history of winning the award  as its prequel ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ had bagged similar honor in 2003. It was the undisputed winner of he year that has won four awards in the nations’ prestigious awards ‘54^th National Film Awards’.It won four of the awards in the categories of Best Screenplay(Raj Kumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi), Best Lyrics(Swanand Kirkire), Best Supporting actor(Dilip Prabhavalkar) and for the best Entertainment of the year.

Gandhian Values ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ and the ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ was a serious attempt to familiarize the young generation of  not only of the country but also of the world with the Gandhian principals and the morals. The film was a hit not in India but all over the world. These to films had aroused the interests of the young generations in the Gandhian values that there were many instance when people used the Gandhian style of objecting to the odds.

Other Awards Dilip Prabhavalkar has also won the award for best supporting actor for the Marathi film ‘Shevri’. It was a double bonanza for him.Soumitra Chatterjee, the veteran Bengali Film Actor was awarded with the honor of Best Actor for his role in Bengali film ‘Poddokkep’ and the Best Actress award was given to the Tamil actress Priyamani for the film ‘Paruthi Veeran’. Best Feature Film Award was given to the Malayalam film ‘Pulijanmam’ directed by Priyanandnan. It is the film about the struggle between the exploitative forces and the resistors. Best Director Award was given to Madhur Bhandarkar for his film ‘Traffic Signal’. The prestigious Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film of a Director was given jointly to Madhukaithapuram for his Malayalam film ‘Ekantham’ and Kabir Khan for his Hindi film ‘Kabul Express’. Konkana Sen Sharma won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Hindi film ‘Omkara’.

Delay Because of delay in the announcement of the 2005 awards announcement of the 54^th National Film Fare Awards was delayed .It had happened because of the stay orders obtained by one of the jury members who had objected the criteria of inclusion and selection of the films for consideration of awards.