8th Filmfare Awards

8th Filmfare Awards
Date	1961
Site	Bombay
Highlights
Best Film	Mughal-e-Azam
Most awards	Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Mughal-e-Azam & Parakh (3)
Most nominations	Mughal-e-Azam (11)

The 8th Filmfare Awards were held in Bombay to honor the best films in Hindi cinema in 1961.

K. Asif's magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Chaudhvin Ka Chand with 6 nominations and Parakh with 5 nominations.

Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Mughal-e-Azam and Parakh won 3 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony.

Mughal-e-Azam, considered one of the greatest and most successful films of Bollywood, was expected to steam-roll the competition, controversially went home with just 3 wins out of its 11 nominations, including Best Film, but missed out on Best Director (for K. Asif), Best Lyricist (for Shakeel Badayuni for "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya"), Best Playback Singer (for Lata Mangeshkar for "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya") and all the 4 acting categories. Another glaring upset was Naushad's loss for Best Music Director for Mughal-e-Azam's epic soundtrack to Shankar-Jaikishan for Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai.

Dilip Kumar received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Kohinoor and Mughal-e-Azam, winning for the former.

Main Awards

Bimal Roy — Best Director (Parakh)

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Dilip Kumar — Best Actor (Kohinoor)

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Bina Rai — Best Actress (Ghunghat)

Motilal — Best Supporting Actor (Parakh)

Nanda — Best Supporting Actress (Aanchal)

Kamal Amrohi — Best Dialogue co-winner for Mughal E Azam

Best Film	Best Director
Mughal-e-Azam Masoom Parakh	Bimal Roy – Parakh K. Asif – Mughal-e-Azam Kishore Sahu – Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dilip Kumar – Kohinoor as Prince Dhivendra Pratap Bahadur Chandrabhan Dev Anand – Kala Bazar as Raghuvir Dilip Kumar – Mughal-e-Azam as Prince Salim Raj Kapoor – Chhalia as Chhalia	Bina Rai – Ghunghat as Parvati / Jamuna Madhubala – Mughal-e-Azam as Anarkali Nutan – Chhalia as Shanti
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Motilal – Parakh as Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy Agha – Ghunghat as Agha Prithviraj Kapoor – Mughal-e-Azam as Emperor Akbar Rehman – Chaudhvin Ka Chand as Pyare Mohan / Nawab Sahib	Nanda – Aanchal as Nanda Durga Khote – Mughal-e-Azam as Maharani Jodha Bai Kumkum – Kohinoor as Rajlakshmi Lalita Pawar – Aanchal as Mother
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Shankar Jaikishan – Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai Naushad – Mughal-e-Azam Ravi – Chaudhvin Ka Chand	Shakeel Badayuni – "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" from Chaudhvin Ka Chand Shailendra – "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai" from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai Shakeel Badayuni – "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya" from Mughal-e-Azam
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Mohammed Rafi – "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" from Chaudhvin Ka Chand Lata Mangeshkar – "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai" from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai Lata Mangeshkar – "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya" from Mughal-e-Azam	Award won by a male singer

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Dialogue
Ruby Sen – Masoom Saghir Usmani – Chaudhvin Ka Chand Salil Chowdhury – Parakh	Aman, Kamal Amrohi, Wajahat Mirza, Ehsan Rizvi — Mughal-e-Azam
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Moosa Mansoor — Kohinoor	R.D. Mathur — Mughal-e-Azam
Best Art Direction	Best Sound Design
Biren Nag — Chaudhvin Ka Chand	George D'Cruz — Parakh

Multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple awards and nominations.

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Mughal-e-Azam	3	11
Chaudhvin Ka Chand	3	6
Parakh	3	5
Kohinoor	2	3
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai	1	3

See also

• 9th Filmfare Awards
• 7th Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

External links

• Winner and nomination of 9th Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database