What are some interesting facts about the Filmfare Awards?

 

Never : Suresh Wadkar and late KK , music legends were often nominated ;but never won any award.

Never : Shamshad Begum and Suman Kalyanpur , legendary singers, never won any film fare award.

Never : Madhu bala and Meenakshi Sheshadri , talented actress , never won any film fare award.

Never : Rajendra Kumar and Ranjeet , legendary actors, never won any film fare award.

Never : Madan Mohan and Vishal -Shekhar , known music composers, have never won any award.

Never : Anand Bakshi and Anjaan; known lyricists , were often nominated ; but have never won any award.

Never : Kangana Ranaut and Aamir Khan have refused to accept any film fare nomination.

Never : Dharmendra and Mala Sinha , legendary actors , never won Film fare award as actors.

Facts: Film fare trophy was designed by NG Pansare in 1954.

It was originally named after Clare Mendonca , film critic of Times of India.

From 1991, Film fare Lifetime achievement awards were started .

Dharmendra ;Mala Sinha ;Shatrughan Sinha were awarded with Film fare Lifetime achievement awards.

Perhaps : “An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor”: Javier Bardem (actor)

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What elements of Suniel Shetty's performance in "Dhadkan" earned him the Filmfare best Villain award, and how does it differ from his other roles?

 In the film Dhadkan which was released in 2000, Suniel Shetty portrayed the role of Dev Chopra, a stubborn with rough and tough attitude. He wants to get back his girl friend Anjali (Shilpa Shetty) even after her marriage with Ram Verma (Akshay Kumar).

To gain Anjali back, Dev collects enough wealth as her father, a wealthy person rejected to give her daughter's hand to him though she wanted to marry him because Dev was a poor person, he doesn't know who is his father and Anjali’s father didn't like his attitude or behaviour also.

Suniel Shetty‘s Dev’s character in Dhadkan was a tough one, he forces Anjali to leave her husband and to come back with him, when she rejects him for the second time he couldn't sustain and he tries to ruin Ram's life.

But when he sees unconditional love of Ram towards Anjali, Dev changes his mind and he accepts to marry his business partner Sheetal Verma (Mahima Choudhary) who loves him very much. Finally the film gets happy ending.

Before the film Dhadkan, Suniel Shetty was usually doing hero roles and supporting roles that too as an action hero he gave good performances in several films like Mohra, Border, Gopi Kishen and Rakshak. In Hera Pheri he did a comedy role but for the first time he did villain role in Dhadkan, it was a new experience for the audience to see Suniel Shetty in that get-up. But he did the role of Dev impressively and effortlessly, he was well suited for that role and he won his first Filmfare Award though he was nominated earlier for Filmfare Best Supporting Actor for the films Dilwale and Border.

After Dhadkan Suniel Shetty portrayed negative roles in several films such as Khel in 2003, Baaz in 2003, Main Hoon Na in 2004, Rudraksh in 2004, No Problem in 2010 and A Gentleman in 2017. But his role in Dhadkan got much popularised and brought him Filmfare Award for Best Villain and this is the only Filmfare Award he won so far.

Suniel Shetty doesn't consider his Dev’s role in Dhadkan is fully a negative role because in the film he is a true lover and he struggles to get back his love at any cost and later compromises for the good of his lover.

Who was the first actor or actress to reject a Filmfare award?

 Vyjayanthimala rejected Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1957.

The production of the original Devdas (1955) involved several big actresses leaving the project. Director Bimal Roy was willing to have Meena Kumari as Paro and Nargis as Chandramukhi opposite Dilip Kumar as Devdas.

Meena was left out because her husband Kamal Amrohi set some unrealistic conditions which Roy didn’t accept. The role went to Suchitra Sen eventually.

Nargis left because she wanted to play the more important role of Paro. Bina Rai and Suraiya left for the same reason.

Ultimately, the role of Chandramukhi was given to Vyjayanthimala. Screenwriter Nabendu Ghosh didn’t approve of Vyjayanthimala’s casting, but they couldn’t waste any more time.

Devdas earned critical acclaim and over 1 crore rupees at the box-office, making it the 10th highest-grossing film of the year.

At the 4th Filmfare Awards (1957), Dilip and Motilal won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Vyjayanthimala was awarded Best Supporting Actress but rejected it saying that she deserved Best Actress because her role was as important as Suchitra’s Paro.

Vyjayanthimala became the first actress to refuse a Filmfare award.