61St Filmfare Awards

61st Filmfare Awards
61st Filmfare Awards
	61st Filmfare Awards
Date	15 January 2016
Site	NSCI Dome, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Hosted by	Shah Rukh Khan; Kapil Sharma
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	Bajirao Mastani
Critics Award; for Best Film	Piku
Most awards	Bajirao Mastani (9)
Most nominations	Bajirao Mastani (14)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
Duration	173 minutes
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The ceremony was hosted by Shah Rukh Khan and Kapil Sharma.

Bajirao Mastani led the ceremony with 14 nominations, followed by Piku with 8 nominations, Tanu Weds Manu Returns with 7 nominations and Badlapur with 6 nominations respectively.

Bajirao Mastani won 9 awards including Best Film, Best Director (for Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Best Actor (for Ranveer Singh) and Best Supporting Actress (for Priyanka Chopra), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Other major winners included Piku with 5 awards, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Roy, Talvar, and Tanu Weds Manu Returns with 2, and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bombay Velvet, Dil Dhadakne Do, Hero, Masaan and Tamasha with 1.

Deepika Padukone received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Bajirao Mastani and Piku, winning for the latter.

Priyanka Chopra, who won Best Supporting Actress for Bajirao Mastani, became the first actress to win Filmfare Awards in 5 different competitive acting categories.

Winners & Nominees

The nominations were announced on 11 January 2016.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Best Director

Deepika Padukone, Best Actress

Ranveer Singh, Best Actor

Shoojit Sircar, Best Director Critics

Kangana Ranaut, Best Actress Critics

Amitabh Bachchan, Best Actor Critics

Anil Kapoor, Best Supporting Actor

Priyanka Chopra, Best Supporting Actress

Arijit Singh, Best Male Playback Singer

Shreya Ghosal, Best Female Playback Singer

Irshad Kamil, Best Lyricist

Moushumi Chatterjee, Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
Bajirao Mastani – Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kishore Lulla Badlapur – Dinesh Vijan, Sunil Lulla Bajrangi Bhaijaan – Salman Khan, Rockline Venkatesh Piku – N.P. Singh, Ronnie Lahiri, Sneha Rajani Talvar – Vineet Jain, Vishal Bhardwaj Tanu Weds Manu Returns – Krishika Lulla, Sunil Lulla	Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Bajirao Mastani Aanand L. Rai – Tanu Weds Manu Returns Kabir Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan Meghna Gulzar – Talvar Shoojit Sircar – Piku Sriram Raghavan – Badlapur
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Ranveer Singh – Bajirao Mastani* as Bajirao I** Amitabh Bachchan – Piku as Bhashkor Banerjee Ranbir Kapoor – Tamasha as Ved Vardhan Sahni Salman Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan as Pawan Kumar "Bajrangi" Chaturvedi Shahrukh Khan – Dilwale as Raj Randhir Bakshi / Kaali Varun Dhawan – Badlapur as Raghav "Raghu" Pratap Singh	*Deepika Padukone – Piku* as Piku Banerjee** Anushka Sharma – NH10 as Meera Deepika Padukone – Bajirao Mastani as Mastani Kajol – Dilwale as Meera Malik Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Tanuja Trivedi / Kusum Sangwan Sonam Kapoor – Dolly Ki Doli as Dolly / Madhuri / Priya / Bhagyashree
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Anil Kapoor – Dil Dhadakne Do* as Kamal Mehra** Deepak Dobriyal – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Pappi Jimmy Shergill – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Raja Awasthi Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Badlapur as Liak Mohammed Tungrekar Sanjay Mishra – Masaan as Vidyadhar Pathak	*Priyanka Chopra – Bajirao Mastani* as Kashibai** Anushka Sharma – Dil Dhadakne Do as Farah Ali Huma Qureshi – Badlapur as Jhimli Shefali Shah – Dil Dhadakne Do as Neelam Mehra Tabu – Drishyam as Inspector General Meera Deshmukh Tanvi Azmi – Bajirao Mastani as Radha Maa
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
*Sooraj Pancholi – Hero* as Sooraj Kaushik**	*Bhumi Pednekar – Dum Laga Ke Haisha* as Sandhya Verma**
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari, Meet Bros Anjjan – Roy A. R. Rahman – Tamasha Anupam Roy – Piku Pritam – Dilwale Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Bajirao Mastani Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Dil Dhadakne Do	Irshad Kamil – "Agar Tum Saath Ho" – Tamasha Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Gerua" – Dilwale Anvita Dutt Guptan – "Gulaabo" – Shaandaar Gulzar – "Zinda" – Talvar Kumaar – "Sooraj Dooba Hain" – Roy Varun Grover – "Moh Moh Ke Dhaage" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Arijit Singh – "Sooraj Dooba Hain" – Roy Ankit Tiwari – "Tu Hai Ki Nahi" – Roy Arijit Singh – "Gerua" – Dilwale Atif Aslam – "Jeena Jeena" – Badlapur Papon – "Moh Moh Ke Dhage" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha Vishal Dadlani – "Gulaabo" – Shaandaar	Shreya Ghoshal – "Deewani Mastani" – Bajirao Mastani Alka Yagnik – "Agar Tum Saath Ho" – Tamasha Anusha Mani – "Gulaabo" – Shaandaar Monali Thakur – "Moh Moh Ke Dhange" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha Palak Muchhal – "Prem Ratan Dhan Payo" – Prem Ratan Dhan Payo Priya Saraiya – "Sun Saathiya" – ABCD 2

Critics' awards

Best Movie (Best Director)
Piku – Shoojit Sircar
Best Actor	Best Actress
Amitabh Bachchan – Piku as Bhashkor Banerjee	Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Tanuja Trivedi / Kusum Sangwan

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
V. Vijayendra Prasad – Bajrangi Bhaijaan	Juhi Chaturvedi – Piku
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Himanshu Sharma – Tanu Weds Manu Returns	A. Sreekar Prasad – Talvar
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Birju Maharaj for "Mohe Rang Do Laal" – Bajirao Mastani	Manu Anand – Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Sujeet Sawant, Sriram Iyengar and Saloni Dhatrak – Bajirao Mastani	Shajith Koyeri – Talvar
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Anju Modi and Maxima Basu – Bajirao Mastani	Anupam Roy – Piku
Best Special Effects	Best Action
Prana Studios – Bombay Velvet	Sham Kaushal – Bajirao Mastani

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Moushumi Chatterjee
RD Burman Award
Armaan Malik
Best Debut Director
Neeraj Ghaywan – Masaan

Multiple nominations

Bajirao Mastani – 14
Piku – 8
Tanu Weds Manu Returns – 7
Badlapur – 6
Dil Dhadakne Do, Dilwale, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Talvar – 5
Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Roy, Tamasha – 4
Shaandaar – 3

Multiple awards

Bajirao Mastani – 9
Piku – 5
Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Roy, Talvar, Tanu Weds Manu Returns – 2

Telecast

The ceremony was telecasted on Sony Television on 7 February 2016 at 8 pm IST

The coverage was made available on www.sonyliv.com and Sony Liv mobile app from 8 February 2016 onwards.

References

External links

Filmfare Award 2016 Sonyliv Archived 17 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine
Filmfare Official Website
Filmfare Awards 2016
Filmfare Awards 2017

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