On March 8, 2014, in a press conference held at Kolkata, the Worldwide Media group announced that Filmfare Award is debuting in Eastern India to honour the best cinematic artistic talent of the region. In the inaugural installment, awards in 29 categories would be given away at the Science City auditorium, Kolkata on March 29, 2014. The awards would include 21 trophies for Bengali movies and four each for Odia and Assamese films. The four categories for both Odia and Assamese films are Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.[4][5]
The winners would be selected from 102 entries in Bengali films, 36 and 14 entries respectively from the Odia and Assamese films.[4]
Bengali film actor Prosenjit Chatterjee was present as the chief guest in that occasion.[1][6][7] Thereafter two other press conferences followed in Bhubaneswar on March 11[4][8] and Guwahati on March 14, 2014[2][5] in the presence of Odia film actor Anubhav Mohanty and Assamese film actors Kopil Bora and Zerifa Wahid respectively.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 1st Filmfare Awards East were announced on March 21, 2014.[9][10] The winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[11]