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| Filmfare Award for Screenplay | |
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| Awarded for | Best Performance by a Screenplay Writer |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Filmfare |
| First awarded | Nabendu Ghosh, Majhli Didi (1969) |
| Currently held by | Harshavardhan Kulkarni, Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary Badhaai Do (2023) |
| Website | Filmfare Awards |
The Filmfare Best Screenplay Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. [1]
| Wins | Recipient |
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| 3 | Salim–Javed, Basu Chatterjee, Rajkumar Hirani |
| 2 | Vijay Tendulkar, Mani Ratnam, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Abhijat Joshi |
Both Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani won the award twice jointly.
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