24th Filmfare Awards
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The 24th Filmfare Awards were held in 1977. Gulzar's Mausam was the winner of the Best Film Award, with Gulzar also winning the Best Director Awards. The awards were spread over a number of films, with no film clearly dominating the event.

Best Film

Mausam
  • Chitchor
    Chitchor
    Chitchor is a Hindi romantic musical film. The film's title means "Heart Stealer" in Hindi. The film is a Rajshri Productions film produced by Tarachand Barjatya. It was based on a Bengali story, Chittachakor by Subodh Ghosh. -Performance:The film became a box office hit and received several...

  • Choti Si Baat
  • Kabhi Kabhie
  • Tapasya
    Tapasya (1976 film)
    Tapasya is a 1976 Hindi movie produced by Tarachand Barjatya for Rajshree Productions. The film is directed by Anil Ganguly. The film stars Rakhee, Parikshat Sahni, Lalita Pawar, A. K. Hangal, and Asrani. The film's music is by Ravindra Jain...


Best Director

Gulzar - Mausam
  • Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....

     - Chitchor
    Chitchor
    Chitchor is a Hindi romantic musical film. The film's title means "Heart Stealer" in Hindi. The film is a Rajshri Productions film produced by Tarachand Barjatya. It was based on a Bengali story, Chittachakor by Subodh Ghosh. -Performance:The film became a box office hit and received several...

  • Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....

     - Choti Si Baat
  • Rajkumar Kohli
    Rajkumar Kohli
    Rajkumar Kohli is an Indian film director. He was famous for directing several popular Bollywood films in the 1970s and 1980s with ensemble casts such as Nagin , Jaani Dushman , Naukar Biwi Ka and Raaj Tilak...

     - Nagin
    Nagin (1976 film)
    Nagin is a 1976 Hindi horror fantasy thriller film produced and directed by Rajkumar Kohli. It features a huge ensemble cast including Sunil Dutt, Reena Roy, Jeetendra, Feroz Khan, Sanjay Khan, Vinod Mehra, Kabir Bedi, Rekha, Yogeeta Bali and Mumtaz...

  • Yash Chopra
    Yash Chopra
    Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

     - Kabhi Kabhie

Best Actor

Sanjeev Kumar - Arjun Pandit
Arjun Pandit
Arjun Pandit is a 1976 Hindi movie. Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee it stars Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Bindu, Deven Verma, Sachin and Keshto Mukherjee. The film's music is by Sachin Dev Burman.-Awards:*1977 Filmfare Awards...

  • Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

     - Kabhi Kabhie
  • Amol Palekar
    Amol Palekar
    Amol Palekar is an Indian actor of the 1970s and a director of Hindi and Marathi cinema.-Theater career:Palekar began in Marathi experimental theatre with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972 [citation needed]...

     - Choti Si Baat
  • Dilip Kumar
    Dilip Kumar
    Dilip Kumar , is an Indian actor and a former Member of Parliament.He lives in Pali Hill, Bandra in Mumbai, India. He is commonly known as "Tragedy King",and is described as "the ultimate method actor" by Satyajit Ray....

     - Bairaag
    Bairaag
    Bairaag is a 1976 Bollywood film. Produced by the duo Mushir- Riaz, it is directed by Asit Sen. The film stars Dilip Kumar, who received a Filmfare nomination as Best Actor for playing a triple role, Saira Banu, Leena Chandavarkar, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Prem Chopra, Helen, Sujit Kumar, Madan Puri, ...

  • Sanjeev Kumar - Mausam

Best Actress

Raakhee - Tapasya
Tapasya (1976 film)
Tapasya is a 1976 Hindi movie produced by Tarachand Barjatya for Rajshree Productions. The film is directed by Anil Ganguly. The film stars Rakhee, Parikshat Sahni, Lalita Pawar, A. K. Hangal, and Asrani. The film's music is by Ravindra Jain...

  • Hema Malini
    Hema Malini
    Hema Malini is an Indian actress, director and producer, as well as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer. Making her acting debut in Sapno Ka Saudagar , she went on to appear in numerous Bollywood films, most notably those with actor and future-husband Dharmendra. She was initially promoted as...

     - Mehbooba
    Mehbooba
    Mehbooba is a 1976 Hindi film produced by Mushir-Riaz and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Prem Chopra. The music is composed by R. D. Burman. The plot it is based on Gulshan Nanda's novel Sisakate Saaz, and Nanda also wrote the screenplay...

  • Raakhee - Kabhi Kabhie
  • Reena Roy
    Reena Roy
    Reena Roy was one of the top Hindi film actresses in India. She performed leading roles in many films from 1972 to 1985 .-Early life and background:...

     - Nagin
    Nagin (1976 film)
    Nagin is a 1976 Hindi horror fantasy thriller film produced and directed by Rajkumar Kohli. It features a huge ensemble cast including Sunil Dutt, Reena Roy, Jeetendra, Feroz Khan, Sanjay Khan, Vinod Mehra, Kabir Bedi, Rekha, Yogeeta Bali and Mumtaz...

  • Sharmila Tagore
    Sharmila Tagore
    Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress. She has won National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances.She has led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011...

     - Mausam

Best Supporting Actor

Prem Chopra
Prem Chopra
Prem Chopra is an actor in Hindi and Punjabi films. He has acted in over 400 films. He is famous for his soft spoken diction despite being a villain in most films.-Personal life and education:...

 - Do Anjaane
Do Anjaane
Do Anjaane is a 1976 Hindi film. Produced by Tito, it is directed by Dulal Guha. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Prem Chopra, Pradeep Kumar, Utpal Dutt, Lalita Pawar and a young pre-stardom Mithun Chakraborty. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji...

  • Ashok Kumar
    Ashok Kumar
    Ashok Kumar also fondly called Dadamoni was an Indian film actor. Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema...

     - Choti Si Baat
  • Prem Chopra
    Prem Chopra
    Prem Chopra is an actor in Hindi and Punjabi films. He has acted in over 400 films. He is famous for his soft spoken diction despite being a villain in most films.-Personal life and education:...

     - Mehbooba
    Mehbooba
    Mehbooba is a 1976 Hindi film produced by Mushir-Riaz and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Prem Chopra. The music is composed by R. D. Burman. The plot it is based on Gulshan Nanda's novel Sisakate Saaz, and Nanda also wrote the screenplay...

  • Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor , born Balbir-Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta , is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema...

     - Kabhi Kabhie
  • Vinod Khanna
    Vinod Khanna
    -Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...

     - Hera Pheri
    Hera Pheri (1976 film)
    Hera Pheri is a 1976 Hindi movie directed by Prakash Mehra and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saira Banu, Vinod Khanna, Sulakshana Pandit, Shreeram Lagoo and Asrani. The film's music is by Kalyanji Anandji and the lyrics by Anjaan.This movie was 'superhit' at boxoffice.Vinod Khanna received a Filmfare...


Best Supporting Actress

Kajri - Balika Badhu
  • Asha Parekh
    Asha Parekh
    Asha Parekh is a Bollywood actress, director, and producer. She was one of the top stars in Hindi films from 1959 to 1973.-Early life:...

     - Udhar Ka Sindur
    Udhar Ka Sindur
    Udhar Ka Sindur is a 1976 Bollywood film directed by . The film stars Jeetendra, Reena Roy, and Asha Parekh, who received a Filmfare nomination as Best Supporting Actress, the only nomination for the film....

  • Bindu
    Bindu
    Bindu is a Sanskrit term meaning "point" or "dot". The feminine case ending is bindi which denotes a small ornamental, devotional and/or mystical dot that is cosmetically applied or affixed to the forehead in Hinduism....

     - Arjun Pandit
    Arjun Pandit
    Arjun Pandit is a 1976 Hindi movie. Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee it stars Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Bindu, Deven Verma, Sachin and Keshto Mukherjee. The film's music is by Sachin Dev Burman.-Awards:*1977 Filmfare Awards...

  • Dina Pathak
    Dina Pathak
    Dina Pathak or Deena Pathak was a veteran actor and director of Gujarati theatre and also a film actor. She was also a woman activist and remained the President of the 'National Federation of Indian Women'...

     - Mausam
  • Waheeda Rehman
    Waheeda Rehman
    Waheeda Rehman , is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood movies and is known for many successful and critically acclaimed movies from 1950's, 60's and early 70's most notably C.I.D. and Guru Dutt classics such as Pyaasa , 12 O'Clock , Kaagaz Ke Phool , Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam...

     - Kabhi Kabhie

Best Comic Actor

Asrani - Balika Badhu
  • Asrani - Choti Si Baat
  • Deven Verma
    Deven Verma
    Deven Varma is an Indian film and television actor, particularly known for his comic roles, with directors like Basu Chatterji, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Gulzar. He has also produced and directed some films including Besharam...

     - Arjun Pandit
    Arjun Pandit
    Arjun Pandit is a 1976 Hindi movie. Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee it stars Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Bindu, Deven Verma, Sachin and Keshto Mukherjee. The film's music is by Sachin Dev Burman.-Awards:*1977 Filmfare Awards...

  • Deven Verma
    Deven Verma
    Deven Varma is an Indian film and television actor, particularly known for his comic roles, with directors like Basu Chatterji, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Gulzar. He has also produced and directed some films including Besharam...

     - Ek Se Badkar Ek
  • Mehmood - Sabse Bada Rupaiya
    Sabse Bada Rupaiya (1976 film)
    Also Sabse Bada Rupaiya directed by P.L. Santoshi.Sabse Bada Rupaiya is a 1976 Hindi film, produced by Mehmood and directed by S...


Best Story

Arjun Pandit
Arjun Pandit
Arjun Pandit is a 1976 Hindi movie. Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee it stars Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Bindu, Deven Verma, Sachin and Keshto Mukherjee. The film's music is by Sachin Dev Burman.-Awards:*1977 Filmfare Awards...

 - Balachand Mukherjee
  • Kabhi Kabhie - Pamela Chopra
  • Mausam - Kamleshwar
    Kamleshwar
    Kamleshwar was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and script and dialogue writer for Hindi cinema and television...

  • Mehbooba
    Mehbooba
    Mehbooba is a 1976 Hindi film produced by Mushir-Riaz and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Prem Chopra. The music is composed by R. D. Burman. The plot it is based on Gulshan Nanda's novel Sisakate Saaz, and Nanda also wrote the screenplay...

     - Gulshan Nanda
  • Tapasya
    Tapasya (1976 film)
    Tapasya is a 1976 Hindi movie produced by Tarachand Barjatya for Rajshree Productions. The film is directed by Anil Ganguly. The film stars Rakhee, Parikshat Sahni, Lalita Pawar, A. K. Hangal, and Asrani. The film's music is by Ravindra Jain...

     - Ashapoorna Devi
    Ashapoorna Devi
    Ashapoorna Devi , also Ashapurna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali novelist and poet. She was born in 8 January 1909. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards...


Best Music

Kabhi Kabhie - Khayyam
  • Bairaag
    Bairaag
    Bairaag is a 1976 Bollywood film. Produced by the duo Mushir- Riaz, it is directed by Asit Sen. The film stars Dilip Kumar, who received a Filmfare nomination as Best Actor for playing a triple role, Saira Banu, Leena Chandavarkar, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Prem Chopra, Helen, Sujit Kumar, Madan Puri, ...

     - Kalyanji Anandji
    Kalyanji Anandji
    Kalyanji Anandji is a name used by Indian composer duo known for its work on Hindi film soundtracks, particularly action potboilers in the 1970s. The name comes from first names of the two Gujarati brothers that formed the duo, Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah...

  • Chitchor
    Chitchor
    Chitchor is a Hindi romantic musical film. The film's title means "Heart Stealer" in Hindi. The film is a Rajshri Productions film produced by Tarachand Barjatya. It was based on a Bengali story, Chittachakor by Subodh Ghosh. -Performance:The film became a box office hit and received several...

     - Ravindra Jain
    Ravindra Jain
    Ravindra Jain is an Indian music composer and lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award in 1985.-Early life:...

  • Mausam - Madan Mohan
    Madan Mohan
    Madan Mohan Kohli , better known as Madan Mohan, was a famed Bollywood film music director of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...

  • Mehbooba
    Mehbooba
    Mehbooba is a 1976 Hindi film produced by Mushir-Riaz and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Prem Chopra. The music is composed by R. D. Burman. The plot it is based on Gulshan Nanda's novel Sisakate Saaz, and Nanda also wrote the screenplay...

     - R.D. Burman

Best Lyrics

Kabhi Kabhie - Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi was a popular Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter. Sahir Ludhianvi is his pseudonym...

 for Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Main
  • Dharam Karam
    Dharam Karam
    Dharam Karam is a 1975 Hindi film produced by Raj Kapoor and directed by Randhir Kapoor, who also star as father and son in the film, respectively. The film also stars Rekha, Premnath and Dara Singh. The music is by R.D...

     - Majrooh Sultanpuri
    Majrooh Sultanpuri
    Majrooh Sultanpuri was an Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter...

     for Ik Din Bik Jayega
  • Kabhi Kabhie - Sahir Ludhianvi
    Sahir Ludhianvi
    Sahir Ludhianvi was a popular Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter. Sahir Ludhianvi is his pseudonym...

     for Main Pal Do Pal Ka
  • Mausam - Gulzar for Dil Dhoondta Hai
  • Mehbooba
    Mehbooba
    Mehbooba is a 1976 Hindi film produced by Mushir-Riaz and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Prem Chopra. The music is composed by R. D. Burman. The plot it is based on Gulshan Nanda's novel Sisakate Saaz, and Nanda also wrote the screenplay...

     - Anand Bakshi
    Anand Bakshi
    Anand Bakshi was a popular Indian poet and lyricist.-Early days:Anand Bakshi was born in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, on 21 July 1930. His ancestors were from Kurree, near Rawalpindi, and had origins in Kashmir. His mother, Sumitra, died 1940, when he was 10...

     for Mere Naina Sawan Bhadon

Best Playback Singer, Male

Kabhi Kabhie - Mukesh
Mukesh
Mukesh Chand Mathur was an Indian playback singer of Bollywood. He, alongside Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar, left such an impact on the Hindi film industry that they are still remembered to date....

 for Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Main
  • Chitchor
    Chitchor
    Chitchor is a Hindi romantic musical film. The film's title means "Heart Stealer" in Hindi. The film is a Rajshri Productions film produced by Tarachand Barjatya. It was based on a Bengali story, Chittachakor by Subodh Ghosh. -Performance:The film became a box office hit and received several...

     - K.J. Yesudas for Gori Tera Gaon
  • Dharam Karam
    Dharam Karam
    Dharam Karam is a 1975 Hindi film produced by Raj Kapoor and directed by Randhir Kapoor, who also star as father and son in the film, respectively. The film also stars Rekha, Premnath and Dara Singh. The music is by R.D...

     - Mukesh
    Mukesh
    Mukesh Chand Mathur was an Indian playback singer of Bollywood. He, alongside Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar, left such an impact on the Hindi film industry that they are still remembered to date....

     for Ek Din Bik Jayega
  • Fakira - Mahendra Kapoor
    Mahendra Kapoor
    Mahendra Kapoor was an Indian playback singer.In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 25,000 songs in various regional languages, including memorable hits like ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ Gumrah, ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ Hamraaz, and in various...

     for Sunke Teri Pukar
  • Kabhi Kabhie - Mukesh
    Mukesh
    Mukesh Chand Mathur was an Indian playback singer of Bollywood. He, alongside Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar, left such an impact on the Hindi film industry that they are still remembered to date....

     for Main Pal Do Pal Ka

Best Playback Singer, Female

Chitchor
Chitchor
Chitchor is a Hindi romantic musical film. The film's title means "Heart Stealer" in Hindi. The film is a Rajshri Productions film produced by Tarachand Barjatya. It was based on a Bengali story, Chittachakor by Subodh Ghosh. -Performance:The film became a box office hit and received several...

 - Hemalata for Tu Jo Mere Sur
  • Barood - Asha Bhosle
    Asha Bhosle
    Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...

     for I Love You
  • Fakira - Hemalata for Sunke Teri Pukar
  • Sankoch - Sulakshana Pandit
    Sulakshana Pandit
    Sulakshana Pratap Narain Pandit is a Filmfare Award winning Playback Singer & Actor.Her brothers are the composing duo Jatin Lalit and her younger sister is Vijeta Pandit who achieved fame with her debut movie Love Story. Her uncle is the accomplished classical vocalist Pandit...

     for Bandhire Kahi Preet

Biggest Winners

  • Kabhi Kabhie - 4/13
  • Balika Badhu - 3/3
  • Mausam 2/8
  • Arjun Pandit
    Arjun Pandit
    Arjun Pandit is a 1976 Hindi movie. Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee it stars Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Bindu, Deven Verma, Sachin and Keshto Mukherjee. The film's music is by Sachin Dev Burman.-Awards:*1977 Filmfare Awards...

     - 2/4
  • Fakira - 2/4

See also

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    26th Filmfare Awards
    The 26th Filmfare Awards were held in 1979. Raj Khosla's Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki was named the Best Film of the Year. Amitabh Bachchan won his second consecutive Best Actor Award for his double role in Don...

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    25th Filmfare Awards
    The 25th Filmfare Awards were held in 1978. Shyam Benegal's Bhumika was named the Best Film of the year, starting a run where 3 films by Shyam Benegal won the Best Film award in 5 years...

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    Filmfare Awards
    The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were...

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