10 ‘First’s Of Filmfare Awards You Never Knew About

14 Oct 16 @ 11:20 AM | By Ravi

Bollywood’s answer to the Oscar’s, the Filmfare Awards which just concluded entered its 61st edition. Established in the year 1954, the awards are considered as one of the most prestigious, recognized and oldest film awards in the Hindi film industry. The awards are presented to artists and technicians belonging to various categories which include the popular awards, technical awards and critic’s awards, for their outstanding talent. Over the years, the Filmfare Awards has managed to provide some known and unknown feats to its winners of which some have been pleasant and some unpleasant. Let’s look into ten such first’s which make the coveted award so special even after 62 years.

Dilip Kumar – First Actor To Win The ‘Best Actor’ Trophy

The thespian has the rare distinction of bagging the first ‘Best Actor’ trophy in its inaugural year in 1954 for his spotless performance in ‘Daag’. Since then the actor has been jointly tied with Shahrukh Khan at first place to win the trophy on 8 occasions. He also has a whopping 19 Filmfare nominations and has also been honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.

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Meena Kumari - First Actress To Win The ‘Best Actress’ Trophy

Known for her tragic roles, Meena Kumari is hailed as one of the greatest actresses of her era to have graced the silver screen. The tragedy queen was the first female actress in 1954 to bag the Filmfare ‘Best Actress’ trophy for her portrayal of Gauri in ‘Baiju Bawra’. She also won the coveted trophy on three more occasions which include 'Parineeta' (1955), 'Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam' (1963) and 'Kaajal' (1966). She was also nominated on eight different occasions.

Sources: en.wikipedia
Bimal Roy – First Producer / Director To Win The ‘Best Film & Director’ Trophy

Bimal Roy deservingly walked away with the ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Director’ trophies in the inaugural year of the Filmfare Awards for his all time black and white classic ‘Do Bigha Zameen’. He also became the first person to achieve a hat-trick by bagging three ‘Best Director’ trophies in succession which include ‘Parineeta’ (1955) and ‘Biraj Bahu’ (1956). The director won seven awards in all.

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Naushad Ali – First Music Director To Win The ‘Best Music’ Trophy

‘Baiju Bawra’ is regarded as an all-time musical classic which had timeless melodies by music maestro Naushad Ali who became the first music director to bag the ‘Best Music Director’ award for the same. The film’s music is still played in temples as most were classics sung by Mohd. Rafi and set to the lyrics of Shakeel Badayuni. Who can forget – O duniya ke rakhwale, Tu ganga ki mauj…

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Vyjayanthimala – First Actress To Reject The ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Trophy

Bimal Roy’s classic based on Sarat Chandra Chatterjee’s novel, ‘Devdas’ got Vyjayanthimala her first Filmfare Award trophy for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ which she out rightly refused to accept as she felt that she played the main female lead in film than Suchitra Sen. The actress later went on to bag the same for ‘Sadhna’, ‘’Gunga Jumna’ and ‘Sangam’.

Sources: en.wikipedia
Raaj Kumar – First Actor To Reject The ‘Best Supporting Actor’ Trophy

Raaj Kumar alike Vyjayanthimala too has the dubious distinction of rejecting the ‘Best Supporting Actor’ trophy which he won for ‘Waqt’. The reason for it was similar to Vyjayanthimala’s as he too felt that he played the lead in the multi-starrer film and deserved the ‘Best Actor’ trophy.

Sources: en.wikipedia
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Nazia Hassan – First Foreigner To Win The ‘Best Female Playback Singer’ Trophy

The teenage pop-star became the first foreigner to bag a Filmfare Award as she belonged to Pakistan. Feroz Khan’s ‘Qurbani’ which released in 1980 had the chart-buster song ‘Aap jaisa koi’ which was sung by Nazia became a rage and continues to be played at pubs and events.

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Laxmikant - Pyarelal – First Music Duo Pair To Receive 25 Nominations

The musical duo pair of Laxmikant - Pyarelal bagged the ‘Best Music Director’ trophy for ‘Dosti’ (1965), ‘Milan’ (1968), ‘Jeene Ki Raah’ (1970), ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ (1978), ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’ (1979), ‘Sargam’ (1980) and ‘Karz’ (1981). The pair also received a staggering 25 nominations in the music category from 1970 to 1994 for various movie scores.

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Kumar Sanu – First Singer To Win Five ‘Best Male Playback Singer’ Trophies In A Row

It was a dream debut for the singer from Kolkata who started off as a Kishore Kumar clone signing cover versions of his hits. ‘Aashiqui’ happened to him in 1990 and the rest is history. He won the ‘Best Male Playback Singer’ trophy for a consecutive five years which include ‘Ab tere bin’ (Aashiqui), ‘Mera dil bhi kitna pagal hai’ (Saajan), ‘Sochenge tumhe pyaar’ (Deewana), ‘Yeh kaali kaali aankhen’ (Baazigar) and ‘Ek ladki ko dekha’ (1942 : A Love Story).

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Black – First Film To Bag The Maximum Filmfare Awards

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Black’ swept almost all awards in 2006. A total of 11 awards in all which included – ‘Best Movie’, ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Actor’, ‘Best Actress’, ‘Critics Award Best Movie’, ‘Best Actor’ (Critics' Choice), ‘Best Actress’ (Critics' Choice), ‘Best Supporting Actress’, ‘Best Editing’, ‘Best Cinematography’ and ‘Best Background Score’.

Sources: en.wikipedia