56th Filmfare Awards night

It was a glittering event as all the stars shined at the 56th Filmfare Award function. Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan and the most soughted out Bollywood actress Kajol were honoured with the Best Actor and Best Actress category. The starry evening witnessed industry biggies coming together under one roof to make the event one of the most esteemed and wonderful show of the year.


Low budget movie ‘Udaan’ bagged as many as eight awards, while Salman Khan starrer ‘Dabangg’ was voted the Best Film of the year. Critics chose veteran actor Rishi Kapoor for the Best Actor Critics category for the flick ‘Do Dooni Chaar’ while Vidya Balan starrer ‘Ishqiya’ made her won the Best Actress award. Let’s have a sneak-peak at the rest of the winners, here we go with the categories and the winners- Best Director - Karan Johar for My Name is Khan, Best Debut Director - Maneesh Sharma for Band Baaja Baraat. Best Sensational Debut Male was given to Ranveer Singh again for the flick Band Bajaa Baaraat.

Best Sensational Debut Female - Sonakshi Sinha for her debut Dabangg. Best Playback Singer Female award was given to Mamta Sharma for the item song Munni Badnaam and Sunidhi Chauhan for Sheila Ki Jawaani. Best Playback Singer Male category award was bagged by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji.

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Hariharan receive Master Dinanath Vishesh Puraskar

Famous Bollywood singer Hariharan has been honored with the Master Dinanath Vishesh Puraskar for his contribution in the singing. The award was given by versatile singer of the world Lata Mangeshkar on 24 April 2010 at the Shanmukhanand Auditorium. He has received memento and Rs. 50,000.


Other celebrities has also received award like Kajol for her acting, Pandit Shivnand Patil for music, Prashant Dample for best drama Mohan Joshi for his contribution to theatre acting and Madhu Mangesh Karnik for literature. Apart from this award Hariharan has received many other awards for his outstanding performance in the music industry-

National Film Award for best Playback Singer for the song Mere Dushman, Border in the year 1998 The Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas Award in the year 2004, for the contribution in music industry and many more.

Best Villians at Filmfare Awards

Since this category at Filmfare Awards was instituted in 1992, it could not be bestowed upon some of the famous Bollywood villains of the preceding decades. Amjad Khan for his role of Gabbar Singh in
Sholay (1975), Amrish Puri for his role of Mogambo in Mr. India (1987), unfortunately never won. Even great actors like Pran, Prem
Chopra, Jeevan, Ajit and Ranjeet, who were known for their portrayal of negative roles in the 70s and 80s never got the honour.

But there are lucky ones too. Check out who they are.

Ashutosh Rana is the only actor to have won the award twice in a row, in 1999 and 2000. Amrish Puri was nominated consecutively for three years from 1992 to 1994. Also, Danny Dengzongpa is the only actor to have been nominated twice in the same year in 1995, although he failed to win.

Priyanka Chopra and Abhishek Bachchan are the only actors to have been
nominated in another acting category along with the Best Villain category for the same role. In the 2004, Abhishek Bachchan was nominated and eventually won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in Yuva.

In 1998, Kajol became the first female actor to be nominated in this category and win the award for her role in Gupt. Priyanka Chopra was the last female actor to win in this category. She won it for Aitraaz in 2005.

Other actresses to have been nominated are Urmila Matondkar for Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya in 2002, Shabana Azmi for Makdee in 2003, Bipasha Basu for Jism in 2004, Preity Zinta for Armaan in 2004 and Amrita Singh for Kalyug in 2006.

The are some 14 actors who have received multiple Best Villain nominations and these include famous names as Shah Rukh Khan and Nana