70th National Film Awards: Heavy criticism from industry for ignoring contributions to sound recording and mixing: Sound craft fraternity slams revamp of National Film Awards with only sound designer eligible for the honor and no place for recording, mixing contributions. The biggest noise against the recent restructuring of categories in the National Film Awards, including dropping names of Nargis Dutt and Indira Gandhi from some prize nomenclature, has come from the industry's fraternity of sound engineers. The revamping of award categories ahead of the 70th National Film Awards to be presented by President Droupadi Murmu this year has left the sound department with only one prize for Best Sound Design. Last year, the National Film Awards had three awards for sound – Location Sound Recordist, Sound Designer and Re-recordist of the Final Mixed Track – in the feature film section. In the non-feature film section, there were two awards – Re-recordist of the Final Mixed Track and Production Sound Recordist (Location/Sync Sound). Hit by decades of controversies in the sound awards, the film fraternity had been demanding reorganization of the sound category to honor major contributions in the department that witnessed radical changes after the shift from analogue to digital recording. Last year, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune alumnus and sound designer Nithin Lukose had approached the Kerala High Court after he was left out of the Re-recordist of the Final Mixed Track award for Ek Tha Gaon (Once Upon a Village) in the non-feature section despite being credited with nearly the whole of the film's sound design. Two years ago, the National Film Award jury presented a Location Sound Recordist prize to Kannada feature film Dollu. The prize was withdrawn after it emerged that Dollu's sound was dubbed in the studio and never recorded on location. : Faisal Khan reporting for Hindustan Times