50th Filmfare Awards Night

LokVani-Chitra Parayath: "The 50th Filmfare Awards at the Bandra-Kurla onFebruary 26th, saw Bollywood bigwigsattend the event in all their finery. To commemorate their Golden Jubilee, the Awards committee decided to present the winners with Golden trophies instead of the customary black ones.

‘Indian Idol’ finalists Abhijeet Sawant and Amit Sana opened the evening's proceedings with songs.. During the first interlude ‘Kisna’ actress Isha Sharvani performed her ever popular rope dance and unveiled the magnificent new gold Filmfare trophy.

Saif Ali Khan, the compere for the evening entered on a crane and lit the ‘50 years’ drape fireworks display, that had the ‘50th YEAR’ sign glowing in the background.

‘Veer Zara’, ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Hum Tum’ were big winners that vening.
Director Kunal Kohli won for ‘Hum Tum’ while the best picture award went to ‘Veer Zara’. Shah Rukh Khan picked up the ‘Best Actor Award’ with Rani Mukherji winning two, both ‘ Best Actress fior ‘Hum Tum’ and Best Supporting Actress for ‘Yuva’.

Abhishek’s Lallan Singh portrayal in ‘Yuva’ fetched him the award for ‘ Best Supporting Actor’ (beating his own father, the big Bachachn in the same category.) At the event, Abhishek dragged his father on stage and gave his award to his father saying: "As I believe there can be no actor better than my father, this award belongs to him." The Big B, not one to be outdone, returned the Trophy to his son saying that it was a tradition to give the son whatever the father earns in life.

The Peter Pan of Bollywood, Dev Anand won the viewer’s award, in the category, ‘Best Actor in Five Decades’, while Rekha was voted the most beautiful and talented.
Ramesh Sippy's blockbuster film of 70s 'Sholay' was adjudged as best film in 50 years

Saif Ali Khan got an award for best actor in a comic role for 'Hum Tum'. The critics’ award for best actress went to Kareena Kapoor for 'Dev' while the critics’ award for best actor was bagged by Pankaj Kapoor for his role in 'Maqbool'.
Shahrukh Khan was given the ‘ Power Award’. Priyanka Chopra won best villainous role for her film ‘Aitraaz’. And the award for Best Debut went to Ayesha Takia for ‘Taarzan – The Wonder Car’.
Aditya Chopra won the ‘Best story award for ‘Veer Zara’ as Mani Ratnam won the’ Best Screenplay’ nod for ‘Yuva’.
Javed Akhtar who created a record of sorts by being nominated for five films in the best lyricist category, won for his lines in the song 'Tere Liye' from the film 'Veer Zara'.

Kunal Ganjawala was the winner for 'Best Male Playback' for the song ‘ Bheegey Honth tere’ from the film ‘Murder’ and Alka Yagnik got the nod for ‘Sanson Ko Sanson Mein’ from ‘Humtum’
Dilip Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar and Naushad (the recipients of the first Filmfare award) were honored at the golden jubilee celebration by Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
The other notable awards presented were,
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Rajesh Khanna

R.D. BURMAN AWARD
Kunal Ganjawala

SONY SCENE OF THE YEAR AWARD
Hum Tum



BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Prabhu Deva (Main Aisa Kyon ... - Lakshay

BEST MOVIE - CRITICS
Mani Ratnam (Yuva) & Govind Nihalani (Dev)

BEST DIALOGUE
Aditya Chopra (Veer-Zaara)

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Yash Raj (Dhoom)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Sabu Cyril (Yuva)

BEST ACTION
Vikram Dharma (Yuva)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Christopher Popp (Lakshya)

BEST Background Score
A.R. Rahman (Swades)"