41st Filmfare Awards

The 41st Filmfare Awards were held in 1996.

41st Filmfare Awards
Date	March 1996
Highlights
Best Film	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Critics Award for Best Film	Bombay
Most awards	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (10)
Most nominations	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Rangeela (14)

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, considered one of the most successful films of Bollywood, and Rangeela led the ceremony with 14 nominations each, followed by Karan Arjun with 10 nominations.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge won 10 awards – a record at the time – including Best Film, Best Director (Aditya Chopra), Best Actor (Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (Kajol) and Best Supporting Actress (Farida Jalal), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Other films winning multiple awards included Rangeela with 7, Barsaat with 4 and Karan Arjun with 2 awards.

Madhuri Dixit received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Raja and Yaraana, but lost to Kajol who won the award for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

Kajol won her first of a record-setting five awards for Best Actress for her performance in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

A. R. Rahman won his first Best Music Director award at Filmfare for his first Hindi film Rangeela.

Main awards

Aditya Chopra — Best Director winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Shah Rukh Khan — Best Actor winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Kajol — Best Actress winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Mani Ratnam — Best Director Critics winner for Bombay

Manisha Koirala — Best Actress Critics winner for Bombay

Jackie Shroff — Best Supporting Actor winner for Rangeela

Farida Jalal — Best Supporting Actress winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Ashok Kumar — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Vyjayanthimala — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Sunil Dutt — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Best Film	Best Director
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Akele Hum Akele Tum Karan Arjun Raja Rangeela	Aditya Chopra – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Indra Kumar – Raja Mansoor Khan – Akele Hum Akele Tum Rakesh Roshan – Karan Arjun Ram Gopal Verma – Rangeela
Best Actor	Best Actress
Shah Rukh Khan – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Aamir Khan – Rangeela Ajay Devgan – Naajayaz Govinda – Coolie No.1 Salman Khan – Karan Arjun	Kajol – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Madhuri Dixit – Raja Madhuri Dixit – Yaraana Manisha Koirala – Akele Hum Akele Tum Urmila Matondkar – Rangeela
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jackie Shroff – Rangeela Amrish Puri – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Anil Kapoor – Trimurti Naseeruddin Shah – Naajayaz Paresh Rawal – Raja	Farida Jalal – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Aruna Irani – Kartavya Raakhee – Karan Arjun Rita Bhaduri – Raja Tanvi Azmi – Akele Hum Akele Tum
Best Performance in a Negative Role	Best Performance in a Comic Role
Mithun Chakraborty – Jallad Amrish Puri – Karan Arjun Ashish Vidyarthi – Drohkaal Danny Denzongpa – Barsaat Mohan Agashe – Trimurti	Anupam Kher – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Ashok Saraf – Karan Arjun Johnny Lever – Karan Arjun Kader Khan – Coolie No.1
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Rangeela – A. R. Rahman Akele Hum Akele Tum – Anu Malik Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge – Jatin–Lalit Karan Arjun – Rajesh Roshan Raja – Nadeem-Shravan	Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Anand Bakshi for Tujhe Dekha To Akele Hum Akele Tum – Majrooh Sultanpuri for Raja Ko Rani Se Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Anand Bakshi for Ho Gaya Hai Tujhko Rangeela – Mehboob for Kya Karen Rangeela – Mehboob for Tanha Tanha
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Udit Narayan for Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna Akele Hum Akele Tum – Udit Narayan for Raja Ko Rani Se Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Kumar Sanu for Tujhe Dekha To Criminal — Kumar Sanu for Tum Mile Dil Haqeeqat – Hariharan for Dil Ne Dil	Yaraana – Kavita Krishnamurthy for Mera Piya Ghar Aaya Akele Hum Akele Tum – Alka Yagnik for Raja Ko Rani Se Raja – Alka Yagnik for Akhiyan Milaun Rangeela – Kavita Krishnamurthy for Pyaar Yeh Jaane Rangeela – Shweta Shetty for Mangta Hai Kya	-

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Rangeela – Ram Gopal Verma	Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra
Best Dialogue	Best Action
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra and Javed Siddiqui	Karan Arjun – Bhiku Varma
Best Editing	Best Sound
Karan Arjun – Sanjay Verma	Barsaat – Rakesh Ranjan
Best Cinematography	Best Choreography
Barsaat – Santosh Sivan	Rangeela – Ahmed Khan for Rangeela Re
Best Costume Design	Best Art Direction
Rangeela – Manish Malhotra	Prem – Bijon Dasgupta

Special awards

Best Male Debut
Bobby Deol – Barsaat
Best Female Debut
Twinkle Khanna – Barsaat
R. D. Burman Award
Mehboob
Special Award
Asha Bhosle 'for the song "Tanha Tanha" in Rangeela. Long back, she stopped accepting nominations for Best Female Playback Singer, so Filmfare awarded her the Special Award for her rendition.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ashok Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt

Critics' awards

Best Film

Bombay

Best Actress

Manisha Koirala – Bombay

Best Documentary

A Narmada Diary

See also

• 42nd Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

References

• https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000245/1996/