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20th Filmfare Awards

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20th Filmfare Awards
Date21 April 1973[1]
SiteBombay
Highlights
Best FilmBe-Imaan
Best ActorManoj Kumar for Be-Imaan
Best ActressHema Malini for Seeta Aur Geeta
Most awardsBe-Imaan (7)
Most nominationsAmar Prem & Be-Imaan (8)

The 20th Filmfare Awards were held in 1973, awarding the films made in 1972.

Amar Prem and Be-Imaan led the ceremony with 8 nominations, followed by Shor with 7 nominations and Pakeezah with 5 nominations.

Be-Imaan won 7 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Sohanlal Kanwar), Best Actor (for Manoj Kumar) and Best Supporting Actor (for Pran), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Rajesh Khanna received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Amar Prem and Dushmun, but lost to Manoj Kumar who won the award for Be-Imaan.

At the ceremony, Meena Kumari earned a then record-setting twelfth and final nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the period musical romantic drama Pakeezah after her death in March 1972. Despite being highly favored to win the award, she controversially lost the award to Hema Malini who won her first and only award in the category for her comic dual role in the comedy-drama Seeta Aur Geeta.

Pran, who won Best Supporting Actor for Be-Imaan refused to accept the award, on the grounds that the Best Music Director award should have gone to Ghulam Mohammed for Pakeezah, and not Shankar-Jaikishan for Be-Imaan.

Main Awards

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Manoj Kumar — Best Actor winner for Be-Imaan
Hema Malini — Best Actress winner for Seeta Aur Geeta
Pran — Best Supporting Actor winner for Be-Imaan
Zeenat Aman — Best Supporting Actress winner for Hare Rama Hare Krishna
Paintal — Best Comic Actor winner for Bawarchi
Asha Bhosle — Best Playback singer winner for "Dum Maro Dum" (Hare Rama Hare Krishna)

Best Film

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Be-Imaan

Best Director

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Sohanlal Kanwar – Be-Imaan

Best Actor

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Manoj KumarBe-Imaan

Best Actress

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Hema MaliniSeeta Aur Geeta

Best Supporting Actor

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PranBe-Imaan

Best Supporting Actress

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Zeenat AmanHare Rama Hare Krishna

Best Comic Actor

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PaintalBawarchi

Best Story

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AnubhavBasu Chatterjee

Best Screenplay

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Amar PremArabinda Mukhopadhyay

Best Dialogue

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Amar Prem – Ramesh Pant

Best Music Director

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Be-ImaanShankar–Jaikishan

Best Lyricist

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Be-ImaanVerma Malik for Jai Bolo Be-Imaan Ki

Best Playback Singer, Male

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Be-ImaanMukesh for Jai Bolo Be-Imaan Ki

Best Playback Singer, Female

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Hare Rama Hare KrishnaAsha Bhosle for Dum Maro Dum

  • Lal Patthar – Asha Bhosle for Suni Suni
  • Lalkaar – Asha Bhosle for Maine Kahan Na Na Na

Best Art Direction

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Pakeezah

Best Cinematography

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Seeta Aur Geeta

Best Editing

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Shor

Best Sound

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Amar Prem

Critics' Awards

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Best Film

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Maya Darpan

Best Documentary

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Nine Months to Freedom

Controversy

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Meena Kumari not winning an award for her performance in Pakeezah stirred controversy at the 20th Filmfare Awards. Filmfare, however, defended their decision by stating that according to their rules, posthumous awards were not allowed then;[3] Filmfare's editor B. K. Karanjia said both Ghulam Mohammad (the music director of Pakeezah) and Josef Wirsching (cinematographer) lost for the same reason.[4]

Years later, in an interview, veteran actress Rakhee Gulzar revealed that initially she was offered the award for Best actress which she declined, as she considered her performance to be mediocre as earlier, she was devoid of the award for her performance in Sharmilee.[5]

Biggest Winners

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Reuben, Bunny (2005). ...and Pran: A Biography. HarperCollins and Living Media. pp. 265–267. ISBN 978-81-72234-66-9.
  2. ^ Dhirad, Sandeep (2006). "Filmfare Nominees and Winner" (PDF). deep750.googlepages.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. ^ Bharatan, Raju (2013). Naushadnama: The Life and Music of Naushad. New Delhi, India: Hay House. pp. 311–312. ISBN 978-93-81431-93-1.
  4. ^ Reuben 2005, p. 266.
  5. ^ "Shocked by Oscar mix-up? Bollywood film awards change winners last minute too". Bollywood Hungama. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2024.