61st Filmfare Awards

61st Filmfare Awards
	61st Filmfare Awards
Date	15 January 2016
Site	NSCI Dome, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Hosted by	Kapil Sharma; Shah Rukh Khan
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 (12)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
Duration	173 minutes

The 61st Filmfare Awards were held to honor the best films of 2015 on 15 January 2016 at NSCI Dome in Mumbai. The ceremony was hosted by Kapil Sharma and Shah Rukh Khan.^[1]

Bajirao Mastani won the most awards with nine including Best Film. Other winners included Piku with five awards, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Roy, Talvar, and Tanu Weds Manu Returns with two, and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bombay Velvet, Dil Dhadakne Do, Hero, Masaan, Tamasha with one. Priyanka Chopra, winning Best Supporting Actress, became the first actress to win Filmfare Awards in five different categories.^[2]

Nominees

The nominations were announced on 11 January 2016.^[3]

Awards

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 Anand 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** Salman Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan as Pawan Kumar "Bajrangi" Chaturvedi Amitabh Bachchan – Piku as Bhashkor Banerjee Varun Dhawan – Badlapur as Raghav "Raghu" Pratap Singh Ranbir Kapoor – Tamasha as Ved Vardhan Sahni Shahrukh Khan – Dilwale as Raj Randhir Bakshi/Kaali	*Deepika Padukone – Piku* as Piku Banerjee** Anushka Sharma – NH10 as Meera Deepika Padukone – Bajirao Mastani as Mastani Kajol – Dilwale as Meera Dev Malik Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Tanuja "Tanu" Trivedi / Kumari "Kusum" Sangwan (Datto) Sonam Kapoor – Dolly Ki Doli as Dolly / Madhuri / Priya / Bhagyashree
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Anil Kapoor – Dil Dhadakne Do* as Kamal Mehra*^[4] 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 Anupam Roy – Piku A.R. Rahman – Tamasha Pritam – Dilwale Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – Dil Dhadakne Do Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Bajirao Mastani	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 Vishal Dadlani – "Gulaabo" – Shaandaar Papon – "Moh Moh Ke Dhage" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha	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	Kangana Ranaut - Tanu Weds Manu Returns

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
K. 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 - 12
Piku - 8
Tanu Weds Manu Returns - 7
Badlapur - 6
Dil Dhadakne Do, Dilwale, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Talvar - 5
Roy, Tamasha, Bajrangi Bhaijaan - 4
Shaandaar - 3

Multiple awards

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

Telecast

The Awards were telecasted on Sony Television on 7 February 2016 at 7pm IST

The coverage will be available on www.sonyliv.com and SonyLIV mobile app from 8 February 2016 onwards.

References

↑ "Filmfare Awards 2016: Kapil Sharma and Shah Rukh Khan to host the night". CatchNews. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
↑ "Filmfare Awards 2016: Complete List of Winners". NDTV India. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
↑ "Nominations for the 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards". filmfare.com. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
↑ "Full list of winners of the 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards". filmfare.com. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2018-04-22.

External links

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[1] "Filmfare Awards 2016: Kapil Sharma and Shah Rukh Khan to host the night". CatchNews. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

[2] "Filmfare Awards 2016: Complete List of Winners". NDTV India. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.

[3] "Nominations for the 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards". filmfare.com. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2018-04-22.

[4] "Full list of winners of the 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards". filmfare.com. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2018-04-22.

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