8th Filmfare Awards

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8th Filmfare Awards
Date1961
SiteBombay
Highlights
Best Film Mughal-e-Azam
Best Actor Dilip Kumar for Kohinoor
Best Actress Bina Rai for Ghunghat
Most awards Chaudhvin Ka Chand , Mughal-e-Azam & Parakh (3)
Most nominationsMughal-e-Azam (11)

The 8th Filmfare Awards were held in Bombay to honor the best films in Hindi cinema in 1961.

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K. Asif's magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Chaudhvin Ka Chand with 6 nominations and Parakh with 5 nominations.

Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Mughal-e-Azam and Parakh won 3 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony.

Mughal-e-Azam, considered one of the greatest and most successful films of Bollywood, was expected to steam-roll the competition, controversially went home with just 3 wins out of its 11 nominations, including Best Film, but missed out on Best Director (for K. Asif), Best Lyricist (for Shakeel Badayuni for "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya"), Best Playback Singer (for Lata Mangeshkar for "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya") and all 4 acting categories. Another glaring upset was Naushad's loss for Best Music Director for Mughal-e-Azam's epic soundtrack to Shankar–Jaikishan for Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai. [1]

Dilip Kumar received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Kohinoor and Mughal-e-Azam, winning for the former.

Madhubala received her first and only nomination for Best Actress for her performance as Anarkali in Mughal-e-Azam, which is considered to be amongst the greatest acting performances of Indian Cinema. However, she lost the award to Bina Rai who won the award for Ghunghat, her first and only win in the category.

Main Awards

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Bimal Roy, Best Director
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Motilal, Best Supporting Actor
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Nanda, Best Supporting Actress
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Shankar Jaikishan, Best Music Director
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Mohammed Rafi, Best Playback Singer
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Shakeel Badayuni, Best Lyricist
Best Film Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Music Director Best Lyricist
Best Playback Singer – Male Best Playback Singer – Female
Best Story Best Dialogue

Technical Awards

Best Editing Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction Best Sound Design

Superlatives

The following films had multiple wins and/or nominations

MovieAwardsNominations
Mughal-e-Azam 311
Chaudhvin Ka Chand 6
Parakh 5
Kohinoor 23
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai 1
Aanchal 2
Ghunghat
Masoom
Chhalia 0

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References

  1. The Illustrated Weekly of India. October 1988. p. 53.