# 51st Filmfare Awards

The 51st Filmfare Awards took place on 25 February 2006 at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai. The show was hosted by Javed Jaffrey.
Parineeta led the ceremony with 13 nominations, followed by Black with 11 nominations.
Black received 11 awards at the ceremony – tying the record set by Bhansali's previous directorial Devdas (2002) – including Best Film, Best Film (Critics), Best Director (Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Best Actor, Best Actor (Critics) (both for Amitabh Bachchan), Best Actress, Best Actress (Critics) (both for Rani Mukherji) and Best Supporting Actress (Ayesha Kapur, thus becoming the youngest nominee and eventual winner of an acting Filmfare Award).
Amitabh Bachchan received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Black and Sarkar, winning for the former.
Rani Mukerji also received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Black and Bunty Aur Babli, winning for the former.

## Winners and Nominees
### Main awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Black – Applause Entertainment and SLB Films Bunty Aur Babli – Yash Raj Films No Entry – Sahara One Motion Pictures and SK Film Entertainment Page 3 – Sahara One Motion Pictures and Lighthouse Films Pvt. Ltd. Parineeta – Vidhu Vinod Chopra | Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Black Madhur Bhandarkar – Page 3 Nagesh Kukunoor – Iqbal Pradeep Sarkar – Parineeta Ram Gopal Verma – Sarkar |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai Aamir Khan – Mangal Pandey: The Rising as Mangal Pandey Amitabh Bachchan – Sarkar as Subhash Nagre (Sarkar) Abhishek Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as Bunty (Rakesh Trivedi) Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Roy | Rani Mukerji – Black as Michelle McNally Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste as Ambar "Amby" Malhotra Rani Mukerji – Bunty Aur Babli as Babli (Vimmi Saluja) Sharmila Tagore – Viruddh as Sumitra Patwardhan Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita Roy |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar as Shankar Nagre Amitabh Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as DCP Dashrath Singh Arshad Warsi – Salaam Namaste as Ranjan "Ron" Mathur Naseeruddin Shah – Iqbal as Mohit Mishra Sanjay Dutt – Parineeta as Girish Sharma | Ayesha Kapur – Black as Young Michelle McNally Bipasha Basu – No Entry as Bobby Saluja Sandhya Mridul – Page 3 as Pearl Sequeira Shefali Shah – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Sumitra Thakur Shweta Prasad – Iqbal as Khadija |
| Best Male Debut | Best Female Debut |
| Shiney Ahuja – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi | Vidya Balan – Parineeta |
| Best Villain | Best Comedian |
| Nana Patekar – Apaharan as Tabrez Alam Ajay Devgan – Kaal as Kaali Pratap Singh Amrita Singh – Kalyug as Simi Roy Kay Kay Menon – Sarkar as Vishnu Nagre Pankaj Kapoor – Dus as Himmat Mehndi / JD / Jamwal | Akshay Kumar – Garam Masala as Makrand "Mac" Deendayal Chatpatiya Anil Kapoor – No Entry as Kishan Singhania Javed Jaffrey – Salaam Namaste as Jaggu Yadav aka Crocodile Dundee Rajpal Yadav – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Laxman Singh Salman Khan – No Entry as Prem Khanna |
| Best Music Director | Best Lyricist |
| Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Bunty Aur Babli Adnan Sami – Lucky: No Time for Love Himesh Reshammiya – Aashiq Banaya Aapne Shantanu Moitra – Parineeta Vishal–Shekhar – Dus | Gulzar – "Kajra Re" from Bunty Aur Babli Gulzar – "Chup Chup Ke" from Bunty Aur Babli Gulzar – "Dheere Jalna" from Paheli Sameer – "Aashiq Banaya Aapne" from Aashiq Banaya Aapne Swanand Kirkire – "Piyu Bole" from Parineeta |
| Best Playback Singer – Male | Best Playback Singer – Female |
| Himesh Reshamiya – "Aashiq Banaya Aapne" from Aashiq Banaya Aapne Atif Aslam – "Woh Lamhe" from Zeher Shaan and KK – "Dus Bahane" from Dus Sonu Nigam – "Piyu Bole" from Parineeta Sonu Nigam – "Dheere Jalna" from Paheli | Alisha Chinai – "Kajra Re" from Bunty Aur Babli Shreya Ghoshal – "Agar Tum Mil Jao" from Zeher Shreya Ghoshal – "Piyu Bole" from Parineeta Sunidhi Chauhan – "Kaisi Paheli" from Parineeta Sunidhi Chauhan – "Deedar De" from Dus |

### Critics' awards

Best Film :
| Black (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) ||
| Best Performance ||
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Amitabh Bachchan – Black | Rani Mukerji – Black |

### Technical Awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi | Nina Arora, Manoj Tyagi – Page 3 |
| Best Dialogue | Best Editing |
| Prakash Jha – Apharan | Bela Sehgal – Black |
| Best Choreography | Best Cinematography |
| Howard Rosemeyer – "Kaisi Paheli" from Parineeta | Ravi K. Chandran – Black |
| Best Production Design | Best Sound Design |
| Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar and Pradeep Sarkar – Parineeta | Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Parineeta |
| Best Action | Best Background Score |
| Allan Amin – Dus | Monty Sharma – Black |

### Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award :
| Shabana Azmi ||
| R. D. Burman Award ||
| Shantanu Moitra ||
| Power Award ||
| Yash Chopra | Aditya Chopra |