| Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by a Dialogue Writer |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Filmfare |
| First awarded | Rajinder Singh Bedi, Madhumati (1959) |
| Currently held by | Gangubai Kathiawadi(2023) |
| Website | Filmfare Awards |
The Filmfare Best Dialogue Award is given by the Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. Here is a list of the award winners since 1958 and the films for which they won. [1]
| Wins | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 4 | Gulzar |
| 3 | Rahi Masoom Raza, Aditya Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi |
| 2 | Wajahat Mirza, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Akhtar ul Iman, Javed Akhtar, Kader Khan |
Achla Nagar and Juhi Chaturvedi are the only women to have won the award for Best Dialogue, winning for Nikaah and Gulabo Sitabo , respectively.
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