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Filmfare Awards
Facts
Did you know that Filmfare
Awards were first called Clares after Clare Mendonca (the Times of India
film critic who died the year of the first awards, 1954). Here is some
interesting trivia on Filmfare awards, the 54th edition of which was organized
recently in Mumbai.
Compiled by India Syndicate
Gregory Peck was expected
to be the guest of honour at the first ever awards (March 21, 1954 at the
Metro theatre, Mumbai). He couldn't make it to the function since his flight
from Colombo got delayed. Peck, however, did attend the banquet that followed
the award nite.
At the first “Clares” Awards
function, Bimal Roy’s ‘Do Bigha Zameen’ won the award for the best film;
Bimal Roy went home with the Best Director award. Dilip Kumar won the award
for the best actor (male) for ‘Daag’, while Meena Kumari won her statuette
for Baiju Bawra. Naushad was adjudged the best music director for his mind-blowing
songs in the Bharat Bhushan starrer, ‘Baiju Bawra’.
Lata Mangeshkar refused to
accept her first Filmfare award because the Filmfare statuette was designed
in the shape of a woman and “the woman had no clothes on”; the award had
to be wrapped with a handkerchief for it to be accepted by the Nightingale.
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In 1969, Sunil Dutt lost
the best actor’s statuette to Dilip Kumar; Sunil organized a party for
Dilip Kumar soon after the awards function, starting the trend of post-award
parties.
In 1975, Yash Chopra's Deewaar
swept all the awards except, surprisingly, for the lead actor Amitabh Bachchan.
One of Filmfare’s mighty
losers has been ‘Sholay’, which won only one award in 1975- for Best
Editing!!!
Vani Ganpathi and Kamal Haasan
got married on the day of the 25th Filmfare Awards; they attended the award
nite with their garlands still around their necks.
The award for Best Choreography
was instituted only in 1988. Saroj Khan won it for Madhuri’s sizzling “Ek
Do Teen…” number from ‘Tezaab’. |
As the Filmfare award function
of 1991 came to an end, the entire crowd ran towards Amitabh Bachchan as
he stood up near the pool. One of the planks cracked, and Amitabh Bachchan
had to do a filmy style rescue operation to save Rakhee from falling.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Black’
holds the record of winning the maximum number of Filmfare Awards. It won
11 at the 51st Filmfare Awards.
Dilip Kumar has been nominated
for 19 Filmfare Best Actor Awards in all and he won 8 awards for Best Actor
(a record). Shah Rukh Khan has been nominated for 17 times and won 7 times.
Amitabh Bachchan has been nominated for 28 Filmfare Best Actor Awards in
all (a record) but won 4.
Filmfare
Awards: 2009
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