Indo-Bangla joint venture film 'Sankhachil' won the best Bengali film award in the 63rd Indian national awards yesterday.

The movie getting the 63rd national award for best movie will boost the film's chances at the box office before its release in mid April, IBN Live reports quoting film director Goutam Ghose.

Ghose, the national film award winning director of India, also commented that the selection trend this year showed the thrust was more on mainstream genre films which strike chord with the larger audiences but said he had "no issue with that", says the report.

“Such crowning before release definitely whets audience expectations,” added the director.

"I had been part of the jury for years. It's a highly subjective issue and their discretion. My wishes to the other recipients," the IBN Live quoted Ghose as saying.

"Sankhachil", co-produced by Prosenjit Chatterjee, will release in both West Bengal and Bangladesh on April 15, the day of Bengali New Year.