Friday, February 24, 2012

Winners of the 2012 FilmFare Awards

By Anant Mathur (February 24, 2012)













It's award seasons and in case you missed it last weekend here are the winners of the 57th Annual FilmFare Awards:


Nominees for Best Actor (Male)

Ajay Devgn - Singham
Amitabh Bachchan - Aarakshan
Hrithik Roshan - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 
Ranbir Kapoor - Rockstar
Salman Khan - Bodyguard 
Shah Rukh Khan - Don 2

Winner: Ranbir Kapoor - Rockstar


Nominees for Best Actor (Female)

Katrina Kaif - Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
Mahie Gill - Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
Priyanka Chopra - 7 Khoon Maaf
Vidya Balan - No One Killed Jessica
Vidya Balan - The Dirty Picture
     
Winner: Vidya Balan - The Dirty Picture 


Nominees for Best Director

Abhinay Deo - Delhi Belly
Farhan Akhtar - Don 2
Imtiaz Ali - Rockstar
Milan Luthria - The Dirty Picture
Zoya Akhtar - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Winner: Zoya Akhtar - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara


Nominees for Best Supporting Actor (Male)

Abhay Deol - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Farhan Akhtar - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Nasseruddin Shah - The Dirty Picture
Pitobash Tripathy - Shor in the City
Vir Das - Delhi Belly

Winner: Farhan Akhtar - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara


Nominees for Best Supporting Actor (Female)

Juhi Chawla - I Am
Kalki Koechlin - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Parineeti Chopra - Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl
Rani Mukherjee - No One Killed Jessica
Swara Bhaskar - Tanu Weds Manu
    
Winner: Rani Mukherjee - No One Killed Jessica
   

Nominees for Best Music Director

A R Rahman - Rockstar
Ram Sampat - Delhi Belly
Shankar Ehsaan Loy - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Sohail Sen - Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
Vishal Shekhar - Ra One

Winner: A R Rahman - Rockstar


Nominees for Best Singer (Male)

Akon & Vishal Dadlani: Chammak Challo - Ra One
Mohit Chauhan: Jo Bhi Mei - Rockstar
Mohit Chauhan: Sadda Haq - Rockstar
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan: Teri Meri - Bodyguard
Shafqat Amanat Ali: Dildaara - Ra One
      
Winner: Mohit Chauhan: Jo Bhi Mei - Rockstar


Nominees for Best Singer (Female)

Alyssa Mendonsa: Khwabon Ke Parindey - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Hard Kaur: Katiya Karoon - Rockstar
Rekha Bhardwaj & Usha Uthup - Darling - 7 Khoon Maaf
Shreya Ghoshal - Teri Meri - Bodyguard
Shreya Ghoshal - Saibo -Shor in the City

Winner: Rekha Bhardwaj & Usha Uthup - Darling - 7 Khoon Maaf


Nominees for Best Lyrics

Gulzar: Darling - 7 Khoon Maaf
Irshad Kamil: Nadaan Parindey - Rockstar
Irshad Kamil: Sadda Haq - Rockstar
Javed Akhtar: Senorita - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Vishal Dadlani/Niranjan Iyengar - Chammak Challo - Ra. One

Winner: Irshad Kamil: Sadda Haq - Rockstar


Best Dialogue: 
Farhan Akhtar for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.  
 

Best Screenplay: 
Akshat Verma for Delhi Belly
 

Best Story: 
Sanjay Chauhan for I Am Kalam
 

Best Actor (Critics) Award:  
Ranbir Kapoor for Rockstar
 

Best Actress (Critics) Award:  
Priyanka Chopra for 7 Khoon Maaf
 

Best Film (Critics) Award:  
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
 

SPECIAL FILMFARE AWARD:  
Partho Gupte for Stanley Ka Dabba
 

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: 
Aruna Irani
 

Idea Sony Scene of the Year Award: 
The Dirty Picture 


FILMFARE MUSIC AWARDS:
RD Burman Award for Best upcoming Talent:
Krishna for Tanu weds Manu
 
Best Choreography: 
Bosco-Caesar:
'Senorita', Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 
 
Best Background Score: 
Ranjit Barot: Shaitan
 

FILMFARE DEBUT AWARDS: 
 
Best Debut Director Award: 
Abhinay Deo: Delhi Belly
 
Best Debut (Male) Award: 
Vidyut Jamwal: Force 

Best Debut (Female) Award: 
Parineeti Chopra: Ladies vs Ricky Bahl 
 
 
FILMFARE TECHNICAL AWARDS:

Best Action: 
Mathhias Barsch: Don 2. 

Best Cinematography: 
Carlos Catalan: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 

Best Editing: 
Huzefa Lokhandwala: Delhi Belly 


Best Production Design: 
Shashank Tere: Delhi Belly 

Best Sound Design: 
Nakul Kamte: Don 2 

Best Costume Design Award: 
Niharika Khan: The Dirty Picture


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Friday, February 17, 2012

Interesting Facts About FilmFare Awards

By Anant Mathur (February 17, 2012)

With the 57th Filmfare Awards coming up this Sunday night, I thought it would be interesting to let my readers know some interesting facts about this most awaited night in Bollywood.

FilmFare Awards are considered to be the equivalent of the Oscars in India. 

Every actor, director, producer, writer, singer and technician dreams of winning one someday.

Did you know that of the 56 best picture winners, so far, 28 film have had single word titles. Films with 2 and 3 word titles have won 6 times each. While 4 word titles have won 12 times, titles with 5 word have won 3 times and titles with 6 words have won only once. No films with more than 6 words in the title have ever won a best picture FilmFare award. So according these facts there is a 71.42% chance that either Rockstar or Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara will win best picture this year.

The first film to win best picture had a 3 word title (Do Bigha Zamin) and the third film to win best picture had a one word title (Jagriti). Interestingly, the second film to win had 2 words in the title (Boot Polish).

Black (2005) has won the most FilmFare awards in a single year with 11. Next in line are Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Devdas (2002) with 10 each.

Bimal Roy leads with his 7 awards for Best Director, no one else comes close.

Dilip Kumar and Shahrukh Khan have won 8 best actor awards. Amitabh Bachchan has won 5 as best actor and 3 in the best supporting actor category.

Nutan and her niece Kajol have both won the Best Actress award 5 times. Nutan also has one for Best Supporting Actress. Madhuri Dixit has 4 Best Actress and 1 Best Supporting actress awards. Jaya Bhaduri has 3 Best Actress and 3 Supporting awards.

Most awards for Music Direction belong to A.R. Rahman and Shankar-Jaikishan they each have 9 wins. A.R. Rahman also has 12 Filmfare Awards South awards for Best Music Direction (Tamil) 9 of which he won for 9 straight years from 1993 to 2001.

Most awards for Playback (Male) belong to Kishore Kumar who has 8. Next in line is Mohd. Rafi with 6 wins.

Asha Bhosle and Alka Yagnik each have 7 awards for Playback (female).

18 FilmFare awards have been won in the Best Lyrics category by Gulzar and Javed Akhtar. With 10 wins Gulzar has a slight edge on Javed Akhtar who is close behind with 8 wins.

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Friday, February 10, 2012

1975: Bollywood's Greatest Year!

By Anant Mathur (February 10, 2012)

In 1939, Hollywood had what is widely considered to be its greatest year. Normally at the Oscars 5 films are nominated in each category, but in 1939, 10 films were nominated for best picture - So many films were worth watching in 1939 that the number could easily have been double or tripled. 

Not before or since have so many films been nominated for best picture in a single year.

The equivalent of Hollywood's greatest year in Bollywood would have to be 1975. In 1975, the best picture FilmFare award went to Deewaar - but it could have easily gone to Sholay or Milli or Chupke Chupke. 

The official nominations at the 1976 FilmFare awards were: 

1. Deewaar - Trimurti Films - Gulshan Rai (WINNER)
2. Aandhi - Filmyug - J. Om Prakash
3. Amanush - Shakti Films - Shakti Samanta
4. Sanyasi - Filmnagar - Sohanlal Kanwar
5. Sholay - Sippy Films - G. P. Sippy

These films came from a wide variety of film genres and sources for their stories and settings, including these:  the "angry young man" (Deewaar), family drama (Amanush and Sanyasi), a film based on the lives of then-prime minister Indira Gandhi and politician Tarkeshwari Sinha (Aandhi), and a curry western (Sholay).

The five nominees for Best Director of 1975 all went on to become legendary film directors/producers with multiple stellar films to their credit. In alphabetical order: Yash Chopra, Gulzar, Sohanlal Kanwar, Shakti Samanta and Ramesh Sippy.


Deewaar won Best Picture with Sholay getting shutout in all categories it was nominated in except for one. Film editor M. S. Shinde won for Best Editing - he had edited 300,000 feet of film into 20,000 feet of theatrical release. In fact, Sholay was nominated in 9 of the top 12 categories but didn't win any of those. 

Though the blockbuster movie didn’t fare too well at the awards ceremony during its release, it was given the Best Film of 50 Years award at the 50th Filmfare Awards. When a blockbuster like Sholay loses out on so many awards it tells us how competitive the year really was.





Select List of Bollywood films premiered in 1975 (in alphabetical order):
1.
Aandhi starring Suchitra Sen, Sanjeev Kumar, directed by Gulzar
2.
 Amanush starring Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Utpal Dutt, directed by Shakti Samanta
3.
Chhoti Si Baat starring Ashok Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Amol Palekar, directed by Basu Chatterjee
4.
 Chori Mera Kaam starring Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, directed by Chander Sadanah
5.
6.
 Deewaar starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Parveen Babi, directed by Yash Chopra
7.
8.
 Do Jhoot starring Vinod Mehra, Moushumi Chatterjee, Pran, directed by Jitu Thakar
9.
10.
 Faraar starring Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, directed by Shankar Mukherjee
11.
Geet Gaata Chal starring Sachin, Sarika, directed by Hiren Nag
12.
 Jai Santoshi Maa starring Bharat Bhushan, Kanan Kaushal, directed by Vijay Sharma
13.
Julie starring Vikram, Lakshmi, Nadira, Om Prakash, directed by K.S. Sethumadhavan
14.
 Kahte Hain Mujhko Raja starring Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Biswajeet, Rekha, directed by Biswajeet
15.
16.
 Khel Khel Mein starring Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Rakesh Roshan, directed by Ravi Tandon
17.
18.
 Mili starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Badhuri, Ashok Kumar, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
19.
Pratiggya starring Dharmendra, Hema Malini, directed by Dulal Guha
20.
 Prem Kahani starring Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Shashi Kapoor, directed by Raj Khosla
21.
22.
 Saazish starring Dharmendra, Saira Banu, David, Helen, Iftekhar, directed by Kalidas
23.
Salaakhen starring Shashi Kapoor, Sulakshana Pandit, directed by A. Salaam
24.
 Sankalp starring Arjun Bakshi, Bipin Gupta Farida Jalal, Jankidas, directed by Ramesh Saigal
25.
Sanyasi starring Manoj Kumar, Hema Malini, Prem Chopra, directed by Sohanlal Kanwar
26.
 Sholay starring Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Amjad Khan, Hema Malini, Jaya Badhuri, Directed by Ramesh Sippy
27.
Umar Qaid starring Jeetendra, Vinod Mehra, Sunil Dutt, Reena Roy, directed by Sikandar Khanna
28.
 Zakhmee starring Sunil Dutt, Asha Parekh, Reena Roy, Rakesh Roshan, directed by Raja Thakur
29.
30.
Warrant starring Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, directed by Pramod Chakravorty



1975 Box Office Report

The following figures (in Indian Rupees) are the sums that were taken in during 1975 - and in particularly for films that made their premieres in between January and December. Note that the number one film (Sholay) premiered in mid-August and shattered all records up to that point becoming the longest running Indian film in the theaters, a record that stood for over 25 years until it was broken by Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. The second highest grosser (Jai Santoshi Maa) of 1975 only managed 1/3 of the revenue generated by Sholay. Of the top 20 earners in 1975, only 2 were flops (that’s a 90% success rate – today the situation is reversed we’re lucky if films have a 10% yearly success rate). As you can see the selection committee had a tough task in deciding which films get nominated for Best Picture in 1975.



Box Office 1975
Rank
Film
Gross
Nett Gross
Verdict
Business Note
1
Sholay
30,00,00,000
15,00,00,000
All Time Blockbuster
Record Grosser
2
Jai Santoshi Maa
10,00,00,000
5,00,00,000
All Time Blockbuster
-
3
Sanyasi
9,00,00,000
4,50,00,000
Blockbuster
-
4
Deewaar
7,50,00,000
4,25,00,000
Super Hit
Extraordinary in Mumbai
5
Pratiggya
7,00,00,000
3,50,00,000
Super Hit
Extraordinary in North
6
Rafoo Chakkar
5,00,00,000
2,50,00,000
Hit
-
7
Warrant
4,50,00,000
2,25,00,000
Hit
-
8
Chori Mera Kaam
4,00,00,000
2,00,00,000
Hit
-
9
Dharmatma
3,50,00,000
1,75,00,000
Semi Hit
-
10
Khel Khel Mein
3,40,00,000
1,70,00,000
Hit
-
11
Zakhmee
3,20,00,000
1,60,00,000
Above Average
-
12
Kala Sona
3,00,00,000
1,50,00,000
Above Average
-
13
Julie
2,80,00,000
1,40,00,000
Hit
-
14
Dharam Karam
2,50,00,000
1,25,00,000
Below Average
-
15
Do Thug
2,30,00,000
1,15,00,000
Average
-
16
Zameer
2,20,00,000
1,10,00,000
Flop
-
17
Umar Qaid
2,10,00,000
1,05,00,000
Average
-
18
Chupke Chupke
2,00,00,000
1,00,00,000
Semi Hit
Big City Hit
19
Chhoti Si Baat
1,96,00,000
98,00,000
Hit
Excellent in Mumbai
20
Prem Kahani
1,90,00,000
95,00,000
Flop
-


1976 Filmfare Award Winners
 
Best Picture: Deewaar - Gulshan Rai
Best Director: Yash Chopra - Deewaar
Best Actor:  Sanjeev Kumar - Aandhi
Best Actress: Lakshmi - Julie
Best Supporting Actor: Shashi Kapoor - Deewaar
Best Supporting Actress: Nadira - Julie
Best Story: Salim-Javed - Deewaar
Best Music: Rajesh Roshan - Julie
Best Lyrics: Indivar - Dil Aisa Kisi (Amanush)  
Best Male Playback: Kishore Kumar - Dil Aisa Kisi (Amanush)  
Best Female Playback: Sulakshana Pandit - Tuhi Sagar Hai (Sankalp)


1975 Births

Sonali Bendra on 1 January
Preity Zinta on 31 January
Akshaye Khanna on 4 April
Shilpa Shetty on 8 June  
Karishma Kapoor on June 25
Kajol on 5 August
Parminder Nagra on 5 October 
Kunal Kapoor on 18 October
Sushmita Sen on 19 November
Dino Morea on 9 December  


1975 Debuts 

Amjad Khan, actor (Sholay)
Preeti Sagar, singer (Julie)
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