Movies have been always topped in the list of entertainment. People see themselves in the movies they see. Playing a story on the big screen has always been one of the biggest business all around the world. In India, the film industry has made itself the most influential part of Indian Society and that is the reason an award function like Filmfare holds great importance itself. This year 65th Filmfare Award 2020 happened with all the excitement. In different categories, nominations were taken from all sorts of movie genres. This year we celebrated 65th Filmfare awards but there were two years when this award function did not happen and that was 1986 and 1987. Just like this interesting fact, there is a lot that you would find interesting to know about Filmfare. We are here comprising the same sort of interesting facts about Filmfare and also incorporating the viewpoints about the Filmfare awards.

Talking about its foundation, it started in 1954 when the National awards also started. At that time it was coined as – The Clares, after the name of an Indian editor Clare Mendonca. There were not so many categories as it has now. The nominations took place from five categories and that was for Best Movies, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Music Director. At that time there used to be no provision for the nominations and they used to declare the winners right away.

The first edition ever saw these following winners-
“Do Bigha Zameen” won the Best Movie.
Bimal Roy, Best Director for “Do Bigha Zameen”
Dilip Kumar won the Best Actor award for “Daag”
Meena Kumari, Best Actress for “Baiju Bawra”
Naushad received Best Music Director Award, for “Baiju  Bawra”

That was the year when 8 films of Yash Raj Films got nominated in different categories and that is still the biggest number of nominations from the same production house. Aamir Khan and Kamal Hassan are the two actors, who have won the highest number of awards in the leading role. Alone Kamal Hassan won numerous awards from Southern and Hindi movies Filmfare Awards. Nutan and Kajol also won the highest number of Filmfare Awards in the category of Best Female Actress. In the category of Musicians AR Rehman and Shankar-Jaikishan won the highest number of awards for the category of Best Musician. Right from then it made it has made its position as the most prestigious award in the film industry.

The most honoured award of Filmfare is also quite popular because of its design. Because of its design, people also call it Black Lady and every Bollywood artist dreams to hold it. It was designed by N.G. Pansare and also supervised by the Art Director Walt Langhammer from Times of India. Initially, it was a bronze, then transformed into silver and on the 50th year turned into a Golden version. Eventually, the design was transformed into a 3D look to match it with standards of movie-making in India.

Filmfare award is not mended for Hindi Feature Films specifically but it happens in all other parts of India. From Marathi movies to Tamil movies they all organize separate ceremonies for their respective language movies.

Winners & Nominees Of 65th Vimal Filmfare Awards 2020

We all love watching movies and get entertained and that is the reason being a Bollywood lover we wanted to know if our favourites got the achievement or not. This is not only us who love to enjoy the Filmfare awards but being such a significant award, all the artists willingly wait to grab the ‘Black Lady’ in their hands as an honour. Last weekend Filmfare Awards 2020 took place in the beautiful city of Guwahati on 23rd march at JioGarden, BKC, Mumbai. Hosted by Karan Johar and Vicky Kaushal again came out the most celebrated and vivacious event of the year for the whole industry. Some most popular stars participated in the event like Ranveer Singh, Taapsee Pannu, Akshay Kumar, Rajkumar Rao and Parineeti Chopra who gave some enormous contribution with their work in Hindi movies from past few years along with many other finest artist of the Bollywood fraternity. There was no genre that was not included in the nomination category of movies. From biopics to drama, they gave equal consideration to all styles of cinema.

Best Actress (Critics) WINNER – Bhumi Pednekar & Taapsee Pannu – Saand Ki Aankh

Nominees
Bhumi Pednekar – Sonchiriya
Kangana Ranaut – Judgementall Hai Kya
Radhika Madan – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
Sanya Malhotra – Photograph

Best Actor (Critics) WINNER – Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15

Nominees
Akshaye Khanna – Article 375
Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Photograph
Rajkummar Rao – Judgementall Hai Kya

Best Film (Critics) WINNER – Article 15

Nominees
Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
Photograph
Sonchiriya
The Sky Is Pink

Best Original Story WINNER – Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki for Article 15

Nominees
Chhichhore – Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta, and Nikhil Mehrotra
Gully Boy – Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti
Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota – Vasan Bala
Mission Mangal – Jagan Shakti,
Sonchiriya – Abhishek Chaubey and Sudip Sharma

Best Dialogue WINNER – Vijay Maurya for Gully Boy

Nominees
Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki
Bala – Niren Bhatt
Chhichhore – Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta, and Nikhil Mehrotra
Sonchiriya – Sudip Sharma
Super 30 – Sanjeev Dutta

Best Actress in a Supporting Role WINNER – Amruta Subhash for Gully Boy

Nominees
Amrita Singh – Badla
Kamini Kaushal – Kabir Singh
Madhuri Dixit – Kalank
Seema Pahwa – Bala
Zaira Wasim – The Sky Is Pink

Best Actor in a Supporting Role WINNER – Siddhant Chaturvedi for Gully Boy

Nominees
Diljit Dosanjh – Good Newwz
Gulshan Devaiah – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
Manoj Pahwa – Article 15
Ranveer Shorey – Sonchiriya
Vijay Verma – Gully Boy

Best Debut Director WINNER – Aditya ​Dhar for URI: The Surgical Strike

Nominees
Jagan Shakti – Mission Mangal
Raaj Shaandilyaa – Dream Girl
Raj Mehta – Good Newwz
Gopi Puthran – Mardaani 2
Tushar Hiranandani – Saand Ki Aankh

Best Debut (Female) WINNER – Ananya Panday for Student of the Year 2

Nominees
Pranutan Bahl – Notebook
Tara Sutaria – Student of the Year 2
Saiee Manjrekar – Dabangg 3
Sharmin Sehgal – Malaal
Shivaleeka Oberoi – Yeh Saali Aashiqui

Best Debut (Male) WINNER – Abhimanyu Dassani for Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota

Nominees
Meezaan Jaffrey – Malaal
Siddhant Chaturvedi – Gully Boy
Vardhan Puri – Yeh Saali Aashiqui
Vishal Jethwa – Mardaani 2
Zaheer Iqbal – Notebook

Best Lyrics WINNER – Divine and Ankur Tewari for ‘Apna Time Aayega’ (Gully Boy)

Nominees
Amitabh Bhattacharya – ‘Kalank Nahi Ishq Hai’ (Kalank)
Irshad Kamil – ‘Bekhayali’ (Kabir Singh)
Manoj Muntashir – ‘Teri Mitti’ (Kesari)
Mithoon – ‘Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage’ (Kabir Singh)
Tanishk Bagchi – ‘Ve Mahi’ (Kesari)

Best Playback Singer (Female) WINNER – Shilpa Rao for ‘Ghungroo’ (War)

Nominees
Neha Bhasin – ‘Chashni’ (Bharat)
Parampara Thakur – ‘Mere Sohneya’ (Kabir Singh)
Shreya Ghoshal – ‘Yeh Aaina’ (Kabir Singh)
Shreya Ghoshal and Vaishali Mhade – ‘Ghar More Pardesiya’ (Kalank)
Sona Mohapatra and Jyotica Tangri – ‘Baby Gold’ (Saand Ki Aankh)

Best Playback Singer Male WINNER – Arijit Singh for ‘Kalank Nahi Ishq Hai’ (Kalank)

Nominees
Arijit Singh – ‘Ve Mahi’ (Kesari)
Nakash Aziz – ‘Slow Motion’ (Bharat)
B Praak – ‘Teri Mitti’ (Kesari)
Sachet Tandon – ‘Bekhayali’ (Kabir Singh)

Best Music Album WINNER – Gully Boy for Ankur Tewari and Zoya Akhtar

Nominees
Bharat – Vishal Shekhar
Kabir Singh – Mithoon, Amaal Malik, Vishal Mishra, Sachet-Parampara, Akhil Sachdeva WINNER
Kalank – Pritam
Kesari – Tanishk Bagchi, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Chirantan Bhatt, Jasbir Jassi, Gurmoh, Jasleen Royal

Filmfare Awards has been always known as the synonym of glamour and lavishness but that is not the only reason for its popularity but we are have heard the name from last many decades and certainly, it has maintained that charisma. Right from its beginning, it has given recognition to the artistic work and equally appreciated the technical excellence required to make a movie.

The nominations were taken from various categories and this time the name of winners did not satisfy the audience that much and that is not so new too. This has been happening for the last many years. Right after the announcement of the winners in different categories, social media got bombarded with different opinions that were certainly not in favour of the results. According to the various opinions given in the different social media platforms, Best lyrics award should have been given to Akshay Kumar starrer ‘Kesari’. Movies like ‘Super 30’ and ‘Kabir Singh’ should have been awarded too. Tweeter is also flooded with the opposing comments for awarding ‘Ananya Panday’  for her debut in ‘Student of The Year’. Besides this, just to show disagreement from the selection, Manoj Muntashir, the lyricist of ‘Kesari’ took a strong stand by not attending the ceremony. ‘Boycott Filmfare’ also became a viral hashtag on social media and getting humungous popularity all over social media.

Looking at the history, this is not the first time when Filmfare came under the controversies for the sorts of judgment they passed. They had their own reasons to not accept the Filmfare Awards at that point of time.

Nominees Who Rejected Filmfare Awards

To get award and recognition for your work and efforts is everyone’s dream. There are numerous award functions that happen every single year to award artists from different genres of Bollywood Hindi movies. Getting selected even as the nominees under any categories is itself a big achievement for any artists yet there have been times when the winners did not accept the award for their own reasons.

Here are the names of the winners who denied to accept the award

• Sonu Nigam for the song ‘Sandese aate hain’, in 1997. His reason was the most humble one as according to him it was not his individual efforts behind the song but the whole team has put their equal efforts.
• Prithviraj Kapoor for the ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for ‘Mughal-E-Azam’. He didn’t want to accept the award as the supporting cast in the movie. According to him, he should be awarded as the Best Actor in Lead.
• Kumar Sanu, Lata Mangeshkar in the year 1958. His reason for not accepting this award has always been controversial and no conclusive reason has yet made.
• Vyjanthimala for the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ category for ‘Devdas’. The reason for this that she didn’t consider her role as the supporting role but the lead one and she denied to accept it.
• Reena Roy for the’ Best Supporting Actress’ category for ‘Apnapan’, in 1977. She has the same reason to not to accept it as Vyjanthimala had.
• Lata Mangeshkar in 1958 denied accepting the Filmfare award with the weirdest reason ever. She didn’t like the design of the award which is a lady without clothes.

Just like the movies, organizers create all their efforts to make this award function successfully in terms of popularity and entertainment. From backstage to the front, efforts are made to make it bespoke for decades. Every single year Bollywood celebrities give some sizzling performances to grab all the attention of the audience. From red carpet entry to anchoring the show they don’t skip the chance to look the best in such sort of award function. In the case of Filmfare Awards, they take one step ahead to pull off their best look.

Just like any other big event Filmfare Awards also consist of many other factors like controversies and rumor. No surprise ‘Boycott Filmfare’ is taking some crazy followings and clicks. One side is so satisfied with the results and on the other side, results disappointed the people like nothing else.  If you have also some different viewpoints regarding the Filmfare awards and its selection, we would love to hear that from you. Do write to us to share your opinion with us.