Weekend

In this weekend blog, I am continuing with where I left  last weekend on Filmfare awards’ some interesting incidents and controversies.

1. When awards for year 1996 movies were being presented in 1997- an interesting incident happened – as this program was held in the open area, suddenly when Karishma Kapoor was accepting her award for best actress in Raja Hindustani, suddenly the venue went in complete darkness, as police personnel shut off the power supply. The reason given was , the organisers did not have permission to hold the event after 10 pm. This rule is still prevalent.
2. During the same it was for the first time Filmfare awarded Aamir Khan as best actor award, but he was not present, as he had earlier declared that he will not attend any award function. Although Rekha played negative character in Khiladiyon Ke Khiladi, she was awarded best supporting actress trophy instead award for best villain.
3. Similar thing had happened earlier, Although Shah Rukh Khan had negative role he was given best actor award for Baazigar (1993), where as for his negative role in movie Anjaam (1994), he was given best villain award. Similarly Kajol for Gupt (1997) was given best villain award, although she was leading actress of that film. It has been always whims and fancies of the panel who chooses the winners in each category.
4. In 1997 when Shekhar Gupta was awarded best director trophy, he came in handcuffs, because the govt has banned his movie the Bandit Queen.
5. For the films released in 1998, when the awards were present in 1999, the film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (K2H2) created a record that it won all the 6 top awards which were Best Picture, Karan Johar (Director), Shah Rukh Khan (Actor), Kajol (Actress), Salman Khan (Supporting Actor) and Rani Mukherjee (Supporting Actress).
6. For the first time it happened in 2000 that the main star of the film was awarded best comedian award, when the award was given to Govinda for Haseena Maan Jayegi (1999)
7. For the films released in 2000, when the awards were announced in 2001, Hrithik Roshan created a sort of record , when he won the award for Best Debut actor and also for Best Actor for his performance in Kaho Naa Pyar Hai. In the same year Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan, both won the award in supporting actor/actress category, earlier both have won the award in same year in for their 1973 films Namak Haraam and Abhimaan.
8. In year 2003 awards, for the films released in 2002, Vivek Oberoi won the best debut actor award, and best supporting actor award for his role in movie Company.
9. Rani Mukherjee created a record in 2005, when she won two acting awards in main category. She won the award for Best Actress for Hum Tum and Best Supporting Actress for Yuva. This record still stands.
10. In the year 2007 Abhishek Bachchan created a hat trick of awards when he won his 3^rd consecutive award in Best Supporting Actor category, the films were Yuva (2004), Sarkar (2005) and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (2006). This is a sort of record in this category.
11. From the year 2008, awards for best comedian and villain were withdrawn, and they were merged with supporting category.
12. In the year 2010, it happened for the first time that best playback singer award (female) was shared by two singers for two different song. Rekha Bhardwaj for Sasural Genda Phool (Delhi 6) and Kavita Seth for song Ek Tara (Wake Up Sid)
13. In the year 2011, it happened for the first time that best Music Director award was shared for the composing the songs in same film, when Sajid Wajid (Duo) and Lalit Pandit won the award for film Dabang. In the same year people were shocked when the best supporting actress award was given to Kareena Kapoor for her role in We are family, a film which was total flop and most of cinegoers had not seen this film.
14. In 2012, Zoya Akhtar became the first women to win the best Director award for the film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.
15. In 2014, Farhan Akhtar became the first actor to win the best actor award for playing a biopic character, when he won the award for acting as legendary athlete Milkha Singh in film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. After this many actor/actress have won the awards for playing biopic characters.
16. In 2019, it happened for the first time that best supporting actor award was shared by two actors, Gajraj Rao for Badhai Ho and Vicky Kaushal for Sanju.

So these were some interesting incidents from the Filmfare awards, I hope you enjoyed reading the article which was spread over 3 weekend blogs.

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Anil Malik

Mumbai, India

17^th Apr 2020.