Here are the winners of the 62nd Filmfare Awards

Four Pakistanis were nominated on Bollywood's biggest night, but none made the final cut

15 Jan, 2017

Many eyes in Pakistan were glued to the Filmfare Awards' social media feed last night, and not only because it's the biggest film awards in Bollywood.

Four Pakistanis artists — Fawad Khan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Qurat ul Ain Balouch and Atif Aslam —made it to the Filmfare nominations in a year where Pakistani talent working in India became a very contentious issue.

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But our surprise ended there. None of the nominated Pakistanis won the coveted award last night.

Fawad Khan missed the chance to win his second Filmfare award for Kapoor & Sons, losing out to his co-star Rishi Kapoor in the Best Actor In A Supporting Role category.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, who was nominated in the Best Playback Singer (Male) category for 'Jag Ghoomeya' (Sultan), also couldn't become a two-time Filmfare winner. Atif Aslam, who has been nominated several times before in the same category, failed to nab it this time around too for 'Tere Sang Yara' (Rustom). Both lost out to 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' singer Arijit Singh.

Qurat ul Ain Balouch lost out to Neha Bhasin, who sang 'Jag Ghoomeya' in Sultan, in the Best Playback Singer (Female) category.

Here are the rest of the winners.

Best Action

Sham Kaushal - Dangal

Best Background Score

Sameer Uddin - Kapoor & Sons

Best Choreography

Adil Shaikh - Kar gayi chul (Kapoor & Sons)

Best Costume

Payal Saluja - Udta Punjab

Best Cinematography

Mitesh Mirchandani - Neerja

Best Editing

Monisha R Baldawa - Neerja

Best Sound Design

Vivek Sachidanand - Phobia

Best VFX

Redchillies VFX - Fan

Best Production Design

Aparna Sud - Neerja

Best Lyrics

Amitabh Bhattacharya – Channa mereya (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)

Best Story

Shakun Batra and Ayesha Devitre - Kapoor & Sons

Best Screenplay

Shakun Batra and Ayesha Devitre - Kapoor & Sons

Best Dialogue

Ritesh Shah - Pink

Best Music Album

Pritam – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)

Shabana Azmi - Neerja

Best Debut Director

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari - Nil Battey Sannata

Best Debut (Male)

Diljit Dosanjh- Udta Punjab

Best Debut (Female)

Ritika Singh - Saala Khadoos

Critics' Award For Best Actor (Female)

Sonam Kapoor - Neerja

Critics' Award For Best Actor (Male)

Manoj Bajpayee - Aligarh

Shahid Kapoor - Udta Punjab

Critics' Award For Best Film

Ram Madhvani- Neerja

Best Actor (Female)

Alia Bhatt- Udta Punjab

Best Director

Nitesh Tiwari- Dangal

Best Actor (Male)

Aamir Khan - Dangal

Best Film

Dangal

Comments

Kerala Jan 15, 2017 10:54am

Salman khan sidelined Arjitsingh but I'm glad that the whole industry is not biased as him.

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Hyder Jan 15, 2017 01:29pm

Sir Superstar Amir Khan never attends these Bollywood awards as he deemed them fixed and waste of time. If merit and fairness were the order of the day then Rahat Fateh Ali khan and Fawad Khan would have won. The Pakistani actors, singers and newspapers like dawn should learn the lesson from this snub and forget about Bollywood for good. Instead concentrate to revive Pakistani film industry and look for opportunities in collaboration with Iranian and Turkish film industry which is much better technically than Bollywood!!! Thanks

liquid Jan 15, 2017 04:24pm

@Hyder come out of the closet.U r comment is mostly biased on muslim fraternity. Fawad Khan is fawad kahn because of bollywood.even siddarth malhtora didnt win it.

Hyder Jan 15, 2017 08:50pm

@liquid You are talking utter non sense, Fawad Khan is known for his performances in Pakistani drama serials and not crap churned out by Bollywood !!!

Punjabi Indian Jan 15, 2017 09:14pm

@Hyder ' Iranian and Turkish film Indystry technically better than Indian Film Insussty ' This statement reminds me of the popular saying ...grapes are sour !

Waheed Noor Jan 15, 2017 10:58pm

Why should w.e care? Bollywood does not care about our artistes. If we can develop nukes and missiles (we never had a failed test which makes every Pakistani proud) we should be able to develop our own industry instead of aping others.

Shaktiman Jan 16, 2017 01:27am

@Hyder smoke is what I was reading in your comment Thanx

Pune-India Jan 16, 2017 10:46am

@Hyder: Best wishes from India..we want to see the collaborative work

madhusudan Jan 16, 2017 01:57pm

@Hyder is it necessary if fawad is nominated than he should won it too, that would be pakistani appeasement. And his role was not extra ordinary in kapoor& sons.