41st Filmfare Awards

41st Filmfare Awards
Date	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)

The 41st Filmfare Awards were held in 1996.

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, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

A.R. Rahman won his first Filmfare award 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

Jackie Shroff — Best Supporting Actor winner for Rangeela

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

Anupam Kher — Best Performance in a Comic Role winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Mithun Chakraborty — Best Performance in a Negative Role winner for Jalaad

Best Film

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

• Akele Hum Akele Tum
• Karan Arjun
• Raja
• Rangeela

Best Director

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

Shah Rukh Khan – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

• Aamir Khan – Rangeela
• Ajay Devgan – Naajayaz
• Govinda – Coolie No.1
• Salman Khan – Karan Arjun

Best Actress

Kajol – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

• Madhuri Dixit – Raja
• Madhuri Dixit – Yaraana
• Manisha Koirala – Akele Hum Akele Tum
• Urmila Matondkar – Rangeela

Best Supporting Actor

Jackie Shroff – Rangeela

• Amrish Puri – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
• Anil Kapoor – Trimurti
• Naseeruddin Shah – Naajayaz
• Paresh Rawal – Raja

Best Supporting Actress

Farida Jalal – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

• Aruna Irani – Kartavya
• Raakhee – Karan Arjun
• Rita Bhaduri – Raja
• Tanvi Azmi – Akele Hum Akele Tum

Best Comic Actor

Anupam Kher – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

• Ashok Saraf – Karan Arjun
• Johnny Lever – Karan Arjun
• Kader Khan – Coolie No.1

Best Villain

Mithun Chakraborty – Jallad

• Amrish Puri – Karan Arjun
• Ashish Vidyarthi – Drohkaal
• Danny Denzongpa – Barsaat
• Mohan Agashe – Trimurti

Best Music

Rangeela - A. R. Rahman

• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge - Jatin-Lalit
• Karan Arjun – Rajesh Roshan
• Akele Hum Akele Tum – Anu Malik
• Raja – Nadeem-Shravan

Best Lyrics

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 Tujh Ko
• Rangeela – Mehboob for Kya Karen
• Rangeela – Mehboob for Tanha Tanha

Best Playback Singer, Male

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
• Haqeeqat – Hariharan for Dil Ne Dil

Best Playback Singer, Female

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

Best Debut, Male

Bobby Deol – Barsaat

Best Debut, Female

Twinkle Khanna – Barsaat

Best Story

Rangeela – Ram Gopal Verma

Best Screenplay

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra

Best Dialogue

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra and Javed Siddiqui

R.D. Burman Award

Mehboob

Best Action

Karan Arjun

Best Art Direction

Prem – Bijon Dasgupta

Best Choreography

Rangeela – Ahmed Khan for Rangeela Re

Best Cinematography

Barsaat – Santosh Sivan

Best Costume Design

Rangeela – Manish Malhotra

Best Editing

Karan Arjun – Sanjay Verma

Best Sound

Barsaat – Rakesh Ranjan

Lifetime Achievement Award

Ashok Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt

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.

Critics' awards

Best Film

Bombay

Best Actress

Manisha Koirala – Bombay

Best Documentary

A Narmada Diary

Biggest Winners

• Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – 10/14
• Rangeela – 6/14
• Barsaat – 4/4
• Karan Arjun – 2/10

See also

• 42nd Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

References

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