2nd Filmfare Awards East

2nd Filmfare Awards East
Date	25 February 2017
Site	Science City, Kolkata
Hosted by	Abir Chatterjee Jisshu Sengupta
Official website	Filmfare Awards East 2017
Highlights
Best Film	Cinemawala
Best Director	Kaushik Ganguly for Cinemawala
Best Actor	Prosenjit Chatterjee for Shankhachil
Best Actress	Swastika Mukherjee for Shaheb Bibi Golaam
Best Critic	Cholai
Most awards	Shaheb Bibi Golaam (6)
Most nominations	Shaheb Bibi Golaam (12)
Television coverage
Network	Colors Tv Bangla
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2nd Filmfare Awards East ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Bengali language Indian films of 2016.

Shaheb Bibi Golaam led the ceremony with twelve nominations, and was the most awarded film at the ceremony, with six wins including Best Actress (for Swastika Mukherjee) and Best Supporting Actor (for Ritwick Chakraborty). It was followed by Praktan and Cinemawala , with ten and eight nominations respectively. For the former, Rituparna Sengupta won Best Actress Critics' (with additional four wins), while Paran Bandopadhyay won Best Actor Critics' for the latter.

Jisshu Sengupta received dual nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, but won neither of them.

Ceremony

Held at Science City, the 2nd Filmfare Awards East had Jio as the title sponsor. Abir Chatterjee and Jisshu Sengupta co-hosted the ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Popular Awards

The nominees for the 2nd Filmfare Awards East were announced on 22 February 2017. ^[1]

Swastika Mukherjee, Best Actress

Prosenjit Chatterjee, Best Actor

Rituparna Sengupta, Best Actress Critics

Paran Bandopadhyay, Best Actor Critics

Aparajita Adhya, Best Supporting Actress

Ritwick Chakraborty, Best Supporting Actor co-winner

Anupam Roy, Best Music Composer & Best Lyricist

Anindya Chatterjee, Best Music Composer

Nachiketa Chakraborty, Best Male Playback Singer

Iman Chakraborty, Best Female Playback Singer

Best Film				Best Director
Cinemawala – Shree Venkatesh Films Double Feluda – Eros International Eagoler Chokh – Shree Venkatesh Films Praktan – Windows Production Shaheb Bibi Golaam – Friends Communication Shankhachil – Ashirbad Cholochitro, Impress Telefilm Limited & NIdeas Creations & Productions				Kaushik Ganguly – Cinemawala Arindam Sil – Eagoler Chokh Goutam Ghose – Shankhachil Pratim D. Gupta – Shaheb Bibi Golaam Sandip Ray – Double Feluda Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy – Praktan
Best Actor				Best Actress
Prosenjit Chatterjee – Shankhachil as Muntasir Chaudhury Badal Abir Chatterjee – Byomkesh Pawrbo as Byomkesh Bakshi Chiranjeet Chakraborty – Shororipu as Detective Chandrakanta Jeet — Power as Beerpratap Chowdhury Dev – Zulfiqar as Markaz Ali Jisshu Sengupta – Byomkesh O Chiriyakhana as Byomkesh Bakshi Paran Bandopadhyay – Cinemawala as Pranabendu Das				Swastika Mukherjee – Shaheb Bibi Golaam as Jaya Sarkar Gargi Roychowdhury – Benche Thakar Gaan as Dr. Paramita Sen Jaya Ahsan – Eagoler Chokh as Shivangi B. Ray Paoli Dam – Khawto as Antara Chakrabarty/Damayanti Raima Sen – Monchora as Nanda Chaudhury Rituparna Sengupta – Praktan as Sudipa Sen
Best Supporting Actor				Best Supporting Actress
Anirban Bhattacharya – Eagoler Chokh as Bishan Ray Ritwick Chakraborty – Shaheb Bibi Golaam as Javed Arun Guha Thakurta – Cinemawala as Hari Jisshu Sengupta – Zulfiqar as Kashinath Kundu Koushik Sen – Zulfiqar as Basheer Khan Parambrata Chatterjee – Cinemawala as Prakash Das				Aparajita Auddy – Praktan as Malini "Molly" Mukherjee Churni Ganguly – Bastu-Shaap as Antara Mamata Shankar – Antarleen as Swati Dutta Shajbati – Shankhachil as Rupsha Chaudhury Sudipta Chakraborty – Shororipu as Bonhi
Music Awards
Best Music Director				Best Lyricist
Anupam Roy & Anindya Chatterjee – Praktan Anupam Roy – Shaheb Bibi Golaam Anupam Roy – Zulfiqar Indraadip Das Gupta – Bastu-Shaap Jeet Gannguli – Love Express				Anupam Roy – "Tumi Jaake Bhalobasho" – Praktan Anupam Roy – "Ek purono Mosjide" – Zulfiqar Anupam Roy – "Mon Bhalo Nei" – Shaheb Bibi Golaam Prosen – "Thik Emon Ebhabe" – Gangster Prosen – "Tomake Chai" – Gangster Srijato – "Tomake Chuye Dilam" – Bastu-Shaap
Best Playback Singer - Male				Best Playback Singer - Female
Nachiketa Chakraborty – "Ek Purono Mosjide" – Zulfiqar Anupam Roy – "Aami Aajkal Bhalo Aachi" – Zulfiqar Anupam Roy – "Mon Bhalo Nei" – Shaheb Bibi Golaam Arijit Singh – "Tomake Chuye Dilam" – Bastu-Shaap Surojit Chatterjee – "Bhromor" – Praktan				Iman Chakraborty – "Tumi Jaake Bhalobasho" – Praktan Anwesha Datta Gupta – "Dhoya Tulsi Pata" – Chocolate Shreya Ghoshal – "Tomar Ki Naam" – Shaheb Bibi Golaam Shreya Ghoshal – "Kolkata" – Praktan Shreya Ghoshal – "Tomake Chuye Dilam" – Bastu-Shaap
Debut Awards
Best Debut Male				Best Debut Director
Yash Dasgupta – Gangster as Kabir (Guru)				Arindam Bhattacharya –Antarleen Ayan Chakraborti – Shororipu

Critics' awards

Best Film (Best Director)
Cholai – Arun Roy
Best Actor	Best Actress
Paran Bandopadhyay – Cinemawala as Pranabendu Das	Rituparna Sengupta – Praktan as Sudipa Sen

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Kaushik Ganguly – Cinemawala	Pratim D. Gupta – Shaheb Bibi Golaam
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Subhomay Chatterjee – Cholai	Sanjeeb Datta – Shaheb Bibi Golaam
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Baba Yadav for Selfie – Abhimaan	Gairik Sarkar – Shaheb Bibi Golaam
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Dhananjay Mondal – Cinemawala	Anirban Sengupta – Shankhachil
Best Background Score
Neil Adhikari – Shaheb Bibi Golaam

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Supriya Devi

Superlatives

Multiple Nominations

• Shaheb Bibi Golaam – 12
• Praktan - 10
• Cinemawala - 8
• Zulfiqar - 7
• Shankhachil - 5
• Bastu-Shaap - 5
• Eagoler Chokh - 4
• Gangster - 3
• Shororipu - 3
• Double Feluda - 2
• Antarleen - 2

Multiple Awards

• Shaheb Bibi Golaam - 6
• Cinemawala - 5
• Praktan 5
• Shankhachil - 2
• Cholai - 2

References

1. "The nominations for the 2nd Jio Filmfare Awards East are out". Filmfare.

External links

• Filmfare Awards East 2017: Winners