MUMBAI: Gurvinder Singh was named the best director for his debut film "Anhe Ghorey Da Daan" at the 59th National Awards announced here Wednesday.

Based on Gurdial Singh’s Punjabi novel of the same name, the film, set in a Punjab village, Patinda, is about the plight of villagers who find out that the landlord has apparently sold his plots to an industrialist and the new owners demolish the house of one of the villagers who refuses to vacate.