41st Filmfare Awards

41st Filmfare Awards
DateMarch 1996[1]
Highlights
Best FilmDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Bombay
Most awardsDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (10)
Most nominationsDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Rangeela (14)

The 41st Filmfare Awards were held in 1996.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, considered one of the most successful films of Bollywood, and Rangeela led the ceremony with 14 nominations each, followed by Karan Arjun with 10 nominations.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge won 10 awards – a record at the time – including Best Film, Best Director (Aditya Chopra), Best Actor (Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (Kajol) and Best Supporting Actress (Farida Jalal), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Other films winning multiple awards included Rangeela with 7, Barsaat with 4 and Karan Arjun with 2 awards.

Madhuri Dixit received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Raja and Yaraana, but lost to Kajol who won the award for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

Kajol won her first of a record-setting five awards for Best Actress for her performance in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

A. R. Rahman won his first Best Music Director award at Filmfare for his first Hindi film Rangeela.

  1. ^ "The day we were". Filmfare. The Times Group. January 1997. Archived from the original on 4 February 1997. Retrieved 23 November 2020.

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