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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)
CountryIndia

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, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

A.R. Rahman won his first Filmfare award for his first Hindi film Rangeela.

Main awards[edit | edit source]

Aditya Chopra — Best Director winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Shah Rukh Khan — Best Actor winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Kajol — Best Actress winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Mani Ratnam — Best Director Critics winner for Bombay
Manisha Koirala — Best Actress Critics winner for Bombay
Jackie Shroff — Best Supporting Actor winner for Rangeela
Farida Jalal — Best Supporting Actress winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Ashok Kumar — Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Vyjayanthimala — Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Sunil Dutt — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Best Film[edit | edit source]

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Director[edit | edit source]

Aditya Chopra – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Actor[edit | edit source]

Shah Rukh Khan – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Actress[edit | edit source]

Kajol – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Supporting Actor[edit | edit source]

Jackie Shroff – Rangeela

Best Supporting Actress[edit | edit source]

Farida Jalal – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Comic Actor[edit | edit source]

Anupam Kher – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Villain[edit | edit source]

Mithun Chakraborty – Jallad

Best Music[edit | edit source]

Rangeela - A. R. Rahman

Best Lyrics[edit | edit source]

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Anand Bakshi for Tujhe Dekha To

Best Playback Singer, Male[edit | edit source]

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Udit Narayan for Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna

Best Playback Singer, Female[edit | edit source]

Yaraana – Kavita Krishnamurthy for Mera Piya Ghar Aaya

Best Debut, Male[edit | edit source]

Bobby Deol – Barsaat

Best Debut, Female[edit | edit source]

Twinkle Khanna – Barsaat

Best Story[edit | edit source]

Rangeela – Ram Gopal Verma

Best Screenplay[edit | edit source]

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra

Best Dialogue[edit | edit source]

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra and Javed Siddiqui

R.D. Burman Award[edit | edit source]

Mehboob

Best Action[edit | edit source]

Karan Arjun

Best Art Direction[edit | edit source]

Prem – Bijon Dasgupta

Best Choreography[edit | edit source]

Rangeela – Ahmed Khan for Rangeela Re

Best Cinematography[edit | edit source]

Barsaat – Santosh Sivan

Best Costume Design[edit | edit source]

Rangeela – Manish Malhotra

Best Editing[edit | edit source]

Karan Arjun – Sanjay Verma

Best Sound[edit | edit source]

Barsaat – Rakesh Ranjan

Lifetime Achievement Award[edit | edit source]

Ashok Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt

Special Award[edit | edit source]

Asha Bhosle for the song "Tanha Tanha" in Rangeela. Long back, she stopped accepting nominations for Best Female Playback Singer, so Filmfare awarded her the Special Award for her rendition.

Critics' awards[edit | edit source]

Best Film[edit | edit source]

Bombay

Best Actress[edit | edit source]

Manisha Koirala – Bombay

Best Documentary[edit | edit source]

A Narmada Diary

Biggest Winners[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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