# 61st Filmfare Awards

The 61st Filmfare Awards were held to honor the best films of 2015 on 15 January 2016 at NSCI Dome in Mumbai. The ceremony was hosted by Shah Rukh Khan and Kapil Sharma.
Bajirao Mastani led the ceremony with 14 nominations, followed by Piku with 8 nominations, Tanu Weds Manu Returns with 7 nominations and Badlapur with 6 nominations respectively.
Bajirao Mastani won 9 awards including Best Film, Best Director (for Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Best Actor (for Ranveer Singh) and Best Supporting Actress (for Priyanka Chopra), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Other major winners included Piku with 5 awards, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Roy, Talvar, and Tanu Weds Manu Returns with 2, and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bombay Velvet, Dil Dhadakne Do, Hero, Masaan and Tamasha with 1.
Deepika Padukone received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Bajirao Mastani and Piku, winning for the latter.
Priyanka Chopra, who won Best Supporting Actress for Bajirao Mastani, became the first actress to win Filmfare Awards in 5 different competitive acting categories.

## Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 11 January 2016.

### Main awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Bajirao Mastani – Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kishore Lulla Badlapur – Dinesh Vijan, Sunil Lulla Bajrangi Bhaijaan – Salman Khan, Rockline Venkatesh Piku – N.P. Singh, Ronnie Lahiri, Sneha Rajani Talvar – Vineet Jain, Vishal Bhardwaj Tanu Weds Manu Returns – Krishika Lulla, Sunil Lulla | Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Bajirao Mastani Aanand L. Rai – Tanu Weds Manu Returns Kabir Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan Meghna Gulzar – Talvar Shoojit Sircar – Piku Sriram Raghavan – Badlapur |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Ranveer Singh – Bajirao Mastani as Bajirao I Amitabh Bachchan – Piku as Bhashkor Banerjee Ranbir Kapoor – Tamasha as Ved Vardhan Sahni Salman Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan as Pawan Kumar "Bajrangi" Chaturvedi Shahrukh Khan – Dilwale as Raj Randhir Bakshi / Kaali Varun Dhawan – Badlapur as Raghav "Raghu" Pratap Singh | Deepika Padukone – Piku as Piku Banerjee Anushka Sharma – NH10 as Meera Deepika Padukone – Bajirao Mastani as Mastani Kajol – Dilwale as Meera Malik Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Tanuja Trivedi / Kusum Sangwan Sonam Kapoor – Dolly Ki Doli as Dolly / Madhuri / Priya / Bhagyashree |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Anil Kapoor – Dil Dhadakne Do as Kamal Mehra Deepak Dobriyal – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Pappi Jimmy Shergill – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Raja Awasthi Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Badlapur as Liak Mohammed Tungrekar Sanjay Mishra – Masaan as Vidyadhar Pathak | Priyanka Chopra – Bajirao Mastani as Kashibai Anushka Sharma – Dil Dhadakne Do as Farah Ali Huma Qureshi – Badlapur as Jhimli Shefali Shah – Dil Dhadakne Do as Neelam Mehra Tabu – Drishyam as Inspector General Meera Deshmukh Tanvi Azmi – Bajirao Mastani as Radha Maa |
| Best Male Debut | Best Female Debut |
| Sooraj Pancholi – Hero as Sooraj Kaushik | Bhumi Pednekar – Dum Laga Ke Haisha as Sandhya Verma |
| Best Music Director | Best Lyricist |
| Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari, Meet Bros Anjjan – Roy A. R. Rahman – Tamasha Anupam Roy – Piku Pritam – Dilwale Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Bajirao Mastani Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Dil Dhadakne Do | Irshad Kamil – "Agar Tum Saath Ho" – Tamasha Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Gerua" – Dilwale Anvita Dutt Guptan – "Gulaabo" – Shaandaar Gulzar – "Zinda" – Talvar Kumaar – "Sooraj Dooba Hain" – Roy Varun Grover – "Moh Moh Ke Dhaage" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha |
| Best Playback Singer – Male | Best Playback Singer – Female |
| Arijit Singh – "Sooraj Dooba Hain" – Roy Ankit Tiwari – "Tu Hai Ki Nahi" – Roy Arijit Singh – "Gerua" – Dilwale Atif Aslam – "Jeena Jeena" – Badlapur Papon – "Moh Moh Ke Dhage" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha Vishal Dadlani – "Gulaabo" – Shaandaar | Shreya Ghoshal – "Deewani Mastani" – Bajirao Mastani Alka Yagnik – "Agar Tum Saath Ho" – Tamasha Anusha Mani – "Gulaabo" – Shaandaar Monali Thakur – "Moh Moh Ke Dhange" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha Palak Muchhal – "Prem Ratan Dhan Payo" – Prem Ratan Dhan Payo Priya Saraiya – "Sun Saathiya" – ABCD 2 |

### Critics' awards

Best Movie (Best Director) :
| Piku – Shoojit Sircar ||
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Amitabh Bachchan – Piku as Bhashkor Banerjee | Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Tanuja Trivedi / Kusum Sangwan |

### Technical awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| V. Vijayendra Prasad – Bajrangi Bhaijaan | Juhi Chaturvedi – Piku |
| Best Dialogue | Best Editing |
| Himanshu Sharma – Tanu Weds Manu Returns | A. Sreekar Prasad – Talvar |
| Best Choreography | Best Cinematography |
| Birju Maharaj for "Mohe Rang Do Laal" – Bajirao Mastani | Manu Anand – Dum Laga Ke Haisha |
| Best Production Design | Best Sound Design |
| Sujeet Sawant, Sriram Iyengar and Saloni Dhatrak – Bajirao Mastani | Shajith Koyeri – Talvar |
| Best Costume Design | Best Background Score |
| Anju Modi and Maxima Basu – Bajirao Mastani | Anupam Roy – Piku |
| Best Special Effects | Best Action |
| Prana Studios – Bombay Velvet | Sham Kaushal – Bajirao Mastani |

### Special awards

* Lifetime Achievement Award
* Moushumi Chatterjee
* RD Burman Award
* Armaan Malik
* Best Debut Director
* Neeraj Ghaywan – Masaan

### Multiple nominations

* Bajirao Mastani – 14
* Piku – 8
* Tanu Weds Manu Returns – 7
* Badlapur – 6
* Dil Dhadakne Do, Dilwale, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Talvar – 5
* Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Roy, Tamasha – 4
* Shaandaar – 3

### Multiple awards

* Bajirao Mastani – 9
* Piku – 5
* Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Roy, Talvar, Tanu Weds Manu Returns – 2
Telecast
The ceremony was telecasted on Sony Television on 7 February 2016 at 8 pm IST
The coverage was made available on www.sonyliv.com and Sony Liv mobile app from 8 February 2016 onwards.