51st Filmfare Awards

51st Filmfare Awards
Date	25 February 2006
Site	Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai
Hosted by	Javed Jaffrey
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	Black
Critics Award for Best Film	Black
Most awards	Black (11)
Most nominations	Parineeta (13)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)

The 51st Filmfare Awards took place on 25 February 2006 at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai. The show was hosted by Javed Jaffrey. Black received the most number of awards, including those for the Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.

Main awards

Best Film

Black

• Bunty Aur Babli
• No Entry
• Page 3
• Parineeta

Best Director

Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Black

• Madhur Bhandarkar for Page 3
• Nagesh Kukunoor for Iqbal
• Pradeep Sarkar for Parineeta
• Ram Gopal Verma for Sarkar

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Amitabh Bachchan – Black

• Aamir Khan – Mangal Pandey: The Rising
• Abhishek Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli
• Amitabh Bachchan – Sarkar
• Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Rani Mukherjee – Black

• Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste
• Rani Mukherjee – Bunty Aur Babli
• Sharmila Tagore – Viruddh
• Vidya Balan – Parineeta

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar

• Amitabh Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli
• Arshad Warsi – Salaam Namaste
• Naseeruddin Shah – Iqbal
• Sanjay Dutt – Parineeta

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Ayesha Kapur – Black

• Bipasha Basu – No Entry
• Sandhya Mridul – Page 3
• Shefali Shah – Waqt: The Race Against Time
• Shweta Prasad – Iqbal

Best Actor in a Comic Role

Akshay Kumar – Garam Masala

• Anil Kapoor – No Entry
• Javed Jaffrey – Salaam Namaste
• Rajpal Yadav – Waqt: The Race Against Time
• Salman Khan – No Entry

Best Performance in a Negative Role

Nana Patekar – Apaharan

• Ajay Devgan – Kaal
• Amrita Singh – Kalyug
• Kay Kay Menon – Sarkar
• Pankaj Kapoor – Dus

Best Music

Bunty Aur Babli – Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy

• Aashiq Banaya Aapne – Himesh Reshammiya
• Dus – Vishal-Shekhar
• Lucky: No Time for Love – Adnan Sami
• Parineeta – Shantanu Moitra

Best Lyrics

Bunty Aur Babli – Gulzar for Kajraa Re

• Aashiq Banaya Aapne – Sameer for Aashiq Banaya Aapne
• Bunty Aur Babli – Gulzar for Chup Chup Ke
• Paheli – Gulzar for Dheere Jalna
• Parineeta – Swanand Kirkire for Piyu Bole

Best Action

Dus – Allan Amin

Best Art Direction

Parineeta – Keshto Mandal , Pradeep Sarkar and Tanushree Sarkar

Best Background Score

Black – Monty Sharma

Best Cinematography

Black – Ravi K. Chandran

Best Editing

Black – Bela Segal

Best Screenplay

Page 3 – Nina Arora & Manoj Tyagi (as per titles of the film)

Best Dialogue

Apaharan – Prakash Jha

Best Story

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi – Ruchi Narain , Shivkumar Subramaniam and Sudhir Mishra

Best Sound Design

Parineeta – Bishwadeep Chatterjee

Best Playback Singer, Male

Aashiq Banaya Aapne – Himesh Reshammiya for Aashiq Banaya Aapne

• Dus – Shaan and K K for Dus Bahane
• Paheli – Sonu Nigam for Dheere Jalna
• Parineeta – Sonu Nigam for Piyu Bole
• Zeher – Atif Aslam for Woh Lamhe

Best Playback Singer, Female

Bunty Aur Babli – Alisha Chinai for Kajraa Re

• Dus – Sunidhi Chauhan for Deedar De
• Parineeta – Shreya Ghoshal for Piyu Bole
• Parineeta – Sunidhi Chauhan for Kaisi Paheli
• Zeher – Shreya Ghoshal for Agar Tum Mil Jao

Lifetime Achievement Award

Shabana Azmi

Best Debut, Male

Shiney Ahuja – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

Best Debut, Female

Vidya Balan – Parineeta

Critics' awards

Best Film

Black

Best Actor

Amitabh Bachchan – Black

Best Actress

Rani Mukherjee – Black

See also

• Filmfare Awards
• 52nd Filmfare Awards
• List of highest-grossing Bollywood films

References

• https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000245/2006/