66th Filmfare Awards

66th Filmfare Awards
66th Filmfare Awards
Presented on	May 17, 2021
Site	Mumbai
Hosted by	Rajkumar Rao,; Riteish Deshmukh
Organized by	The Times Group
Official website	Filmfare Awards 2021
Highlights
Best Film	Thappad
Critics Award; for Best Film	Eeb Allay Ooo!
Most awards	Thappad (7)
Most nominations	Ludo (17)
Television coverage
Network	Colors TV
	← 65th; Filmfare Awards; 67th →;

The 66th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2020.

Winners and nominees[edit | edit source]

On 27 March 2021, winners were announced.^[2] Below is the list of winners:^[3]^[4]

Om Raut — Best Director winner for *Tanhaji*

Irrfan — Best Actor winner for *Angrezi Medium* & Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Taapsee Pannu — Best Actress winner for *Thappad*

Amitabh Bachchan — Best Actor Critics winner for *Gulabo Sitabo*

Tillotama Shome — Best Actress Critics winner for *Sir*

Saif Ali Khan — Best Supporting Actor winner for *Tanhaji*

Farrukh Jaffar — Best Supporting Actress winner for *Gulabo Sitabo*

Best Lyricist – Gulzar for "Chhapaak" (*Chhapaak*)

Popular Awards[edit | edit source]

Best Film		Best Director
Thappad– T–Series, Benaras Media Works Gulabo Sitabo – Ronnie Lahiri, Sheel Kumar, Amazon Prime Video ''Ludo– T-Series, Anurag Basu, Netflix Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl – Dharma Productions, Zee Studios, Netflix Tanhaji – Ajay Devgn FFilms, T-Series		Om Raut – Tanhaji Anurag Basu – Ludo' Anubhav Sinha – Thappad Sharan Sharma – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Shoojit Sircar – Gulabo Sitabo
Best Actor		Best Actress
Irrfan Khan – Angrezi Medium as Champak Ghasiteram Bansal Ajay Devgn – Tanhaji as Tanaji Malusare Amitabh Bachchan – Gulabo Sitabo as Chunnan "Mirza" Nawab Ayushmann Khurrana – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Kartik Singh Rajkumar Rao – Ludo as Alok “Alu” Kumar Gupta Sushant Singh Rajput – Dil Bechara as Immanuel "Manny" Rajkumar Junior		*Taapsee Pannu – Thappad* as Amrita Sabharwal** Vidya Balan – Shakuntala Devi as Shakuntala Devi Janhvi Kapoor – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl as Gunjan Saxena Deepika Padukone – Chhapaak as Malti Kangana Ranaut – Panga as Jaya Nigam
Best Supporting Actor		Best Supporting Actress
Saif Ali Khan – Tanhaji as Udaybhan Singh Rathore Deepak Dobriyal – Angrezi Medium as Gopi Ghasiteram Bansal Gajraj Rao – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Shankar Tripathi Kumud Mishra – Thappad as Sachin Sandu Pankaj Tripathi – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl as Arup Saxena Pankaj Tripathi – Ludo as Rahul Satyendra “Sattu” Tripathi		*Farrukh Jaffar – Gulabo Sitabo* as Fatima Begum** Maanvi Gagroo – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Rajni "Goggle" Tripath Neena Gupta – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Sunaina Tripathi Richa Chadda – Panga as Meenal "Meenu" Singh Tanvi Azmi – Thappad as Sulakshana Sabharwal
Debut Awards
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut		Best Debut Director
Not Awarded	*Alaya F – Jawaani Jaaneman* as Tia Singh** Sadia Khateeb – Shikara		Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase
Writing Awards
Best Story	Best Screenplay		Best Dialogue
Anubhav Sinha and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad Hardik Mehta – Kaamyaab Juhi Chaturvedi – Gulabo Sitabo Kapil Sawant and Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase Rohena Gera – Sir Shubham – Eeb Allay Ooo!	Rohena Gera – Sir Anubhav Sinha and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad Anurag Basu – Ludo Kapil Sawant and Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase Prakash Kapadia and Om Raut – Tanhaji		Juhi Chaturvedi – Gulabo Sitabo Bhavesh Mandalia, Gaurav Shukla, Vinay Chhawal and Sara Bodinar – Angrezi Medium Kapil Sawant – Lootcase Prasad Kapadia – Tanhaji Samrat Chakraborty – Ludo
Music Awards
Best Music Director		Best Lyricist
Pritam – Ludo Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – Chhapaak A. R. Rahman – Dil Bechara Pritam – Love Aaj Kal Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari, Ved Sharma, The Fusion Project, Adnan Dhool and Rabi Ahmed – Malang		Gulzar – "Chhapaak" – Chhapaak Irshad Kamil – "Meherma" – Love Aaj Kal Irshad Kamil – "Shayad" – Love Aaj Kal Sayeed Quadri – "Humdum Hardum" – Ludo Shakeel Azmi – "Ek Tukda Dhoop" – Thappad Vayu – "Mere Liye Tum Kaafi Ho" – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
Best Playback Singer – Male		Best Playback Singer – Female
Raghav Chaitanya – "Ek Tukda Dhoop" – Thappad Arijit Singh – "Shayad" – Love Aaj Kal Arijit Singh – "Aabad Barbaad" – Ludo Ayushmann Khurrana – "Mere Liye Tum" – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan Darshan Raval – "Mehrama" – Love Aaj Kal Ved Sharma – "Malang" – Malang		Asees Kaur – "Hui Malang" – Malang Antara Mitra – "Mehrama" – Love Aaj Kal Palak Muchhal – "Mann Ki Dori" – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Shradha Mishra – "Mar Jayein Hum" – Shikara Sunidhi Chauhan – "Paas Nahi To Fail" – Shakuntala Devi

Critics' Awards[edit | edit source]

Best Film (Best Director)
Prateek Vats – Eeb Allay Ooo! Shoojit Sircar – Gulabo Sitabo Hardik Mehta – Kaamyaab Anubhav Sinha – Thappad Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase Rohena Gera – Sir
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Amitabh Bachchan – Gulabo Sitabo* as Chunnan "Mirza" Nawab** Irrfan Khan – Angrezi Medium as Champak Ghasiteram Bansal Rajkumar Rao – Ludo as Alok “Alu” Kumar Gupta Sanjay Mishra – Kaamyaab as Sudheer Shardul Bhardwaj – Eeb Allay Ooo! as Anjani Prasad	*Tillotama Shome – Sir* as Ratna** Bhumi Pednekar – Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare as Kajal "Kitty" Yadav Konkona Sen Sharma – Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare as Radha "Dolly" Yadav Sanya Malhotra – Ludo as Shruti Choksi Taapsee Pannu – Thappad as Amrita Sabharwal Vidya Balan – Shakuntala Devi as Shakuntala Devi

Special Awards[edit | edit source]

Filmfare Special Award
Not Awarded
Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
Irrfan Khan
Filmfare R. D. Burman Award
Not Awarded

Technical awards[edit | edit source]

Nominations for the Technical awards were announced on the same day.

Best Editing		Best Production Design
Yasha Ramchandani – Thappad Anand Subaya – Lootcase Chandrashekhar Prajapati – Gulabo Sitabo Jacques Comets, Baptiste Ribrault – Sir Ajay Sharma – Ludo		Mansi Mehta – Gulabo Sitabo Aditya Kanwar – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Anurag Basu – Ludo Sandeep Meher – Panga Sriram Kannan Iyengar, Sujeet Sawant – Tanhaji
Best Choreography		Best Cinematography
Farah Khan – "Dil Bechara" – Dil Bechara Ganesh Acharya – "Shankara Re Shankara" – Tanhaji Ganesh Acharya – "Bhankas" – Baaghi 3 Kruti Mahesh, Rahul Shetty – "Illegal Weapon" – Street Dancer 3D Kruti Mahesh, Rahul Shetty – "Nachi Nachi" – Street Dancer 3D		Abhik Mukhopadhyay – Gulabo Sitabo Archit Patel, Jay I. Patel – Panga Keiko Nakahara – Tanhaji Saumyananda Sahi – Eeb Allay Ooo! Soumik Mukherjee – Thappad
Best Sound Design		Best Background Score
Kaamod Kharade – Thappad Abhishek Nair, Shijin Melvin Hutton – Ludo Ali Merchant – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Diapankar Jojo Chaki, Nihar Ranjan Samal – Gulabo Sitabo Lochan Kanvinde – Lootcase Bigyna Bhushan Dahal - Eeb Allay Ooo!		Mangesh Dhakde – Thappad A. R. Rahman – Dil Bechara Pritam – Ludo Sameer Uddin – Lootcase Sandeep Shirodkar – Tanhaji
Best Costume Design	Best Action		Best Special Effects
Veera Kapur Ee – Gulabo Sitabo Abilasha Sharma – Chhapaak Nachiket Barve, Mahesh Sheria – Tanhaji Ashish Dwyer – Ludo Niharika Bhasin – Shakuntala Devi	Ramazan Bulut, Rp Yadav – Tanhaji Ahmed Khan – Baaghi 3 Harpal Singh – Chhalaang Ivanov Victor, Andreas Nguyen – Khuda Haafiz Manohar Verma – Lootcase		Prasad Sutar – Tanhaji Jayesh Vaishnav – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Mahesh Baria – Baaghi 3

Short Film Awards[edit | edit source]

Best Short Film
Fiction	Non-fiction		People's Choice
Shivraj Waichal – Arjun	Nitesh Ramesh Parulekar – Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary		Priyanka Banerjee - Devi
Best Actor – Male (Short Film)		Best Actor – Female (Short Film)
*Arnav Abdagire – Arjun* as Arjun**		*Purti Savardekar – The First Wedding* as Bhumi**

Superlatives[edit | edit source]

Multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
17	Ludo
16	Thappad
13	Gulabo Sitabo
13	Tanhaji
8	Lootcase
8	Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
6	Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
5	Eeb Allay Ooo!
5	Sir
4	Dil Bechara
	Panga
	Angrezi Medium
	Love Aaj Kal
	Chhapaak
	Shakuntala Devi
3	Baaghi 3
2	Street Dancer 3D
2	Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare

Multiple wins
Awards	Film
7	Thappad
6	Gulabo Sitabo
4	Tanhaji
2	Sir

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Unmissable moments from the 66th Vimal Elaichi Filmfare Awards 2021". India: Filmfare. 2021-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
↑ "Filmfare Awards 2021: Irrfan Khan, Taapsee Pannu film Thappad win big; check out the full winners' list". The Indian Express. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
↑ "Nominations For The 66th Vimal Elaichi Filmfare Awards 2021". Filmfare. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
↑ "Winners of the 66th Vimal Elaichi Filmfare Awards 2021". Filmfare. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

External links[edit | edit source]

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[1] "Unmissable moments from the 66th Vimal Elaichi Filmfare Awards 2021". India: Filmfare. 2021-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-28.

[2] "Filmfare Awards 2021: Irrfan Khan, Taapsee Pannu film Thappad win big; check out the full winners' list". The Indian Express. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

[3] "Nominations For The 66th Vimal Elaichi Filmfare Awards 2021". Filmfare. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

[4] "Winners of the 66th Vimal Elaichi Filmfare Awards 2021". Filmfare. 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

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