Filmfare Awards 2016: 'Bajirao Mastani' sweeps away majority titles; 'Talvar', 'Piku' win big

The filmfare awards are probably the most fair and reasonable awards of this season. Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani walked away with 9 Filmfare awards on Friday night, including in major categories such as Best Film, Best Picture, Best Actor (Ranveer Singh), Best Actress In A Supporting Role (Priyanka Chopra), Best Singer Female (Shreya Ghosal), Best Choreography (Birju Maharaj) and Best Action (Sham Kaushal). [caption id=“attachment_2516208” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A still from Bajirao Mastani.[/caption] Bajirao’s Mastani, Deepika Padukone won the Best Actress award, but for her performance in Shoojit Sircar’s Piku which also fetched Amitabh Bachchan the critics’ award for best actor. It is puzzling how two principal performances from the same film were eligible for awards in the popular and critic’s categories . Bajirao Mastani is Sanjay Bhansali’s most Filmfare-awarded film after Black, which won 11 awards and Devdas which won 10 awards.With these 9 awards for his latest work Sanjay Bhansali’s collected works have received the maximum number of popular awards. Interestingly, this is the only year in living memory when none of the three Khan superstars has won the best actor award. Salman Khan, nonetheless, performed live on stage. Bajirao Mastani beat the other favourite Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan in almost all the categories. Bajrangi Bhaijaan won only a Best Story award for K Vijayendra Prasad. Moushumi Chatterjee won a richly-deserved lifetime-achievement award and would be recalled by posterity for giving the shortest ever thank you speech which went something like ‘Khush raho, vyast raho mast raho’. Sadly, Masaan actor Vicky Kaushal lost the Best Debutant’s award to Sooraj Pancholi for Hero. But Vicky’s father, the stunt co-ordinator Sham Kaushal, won a Filmfare award for his spectacular war sequences in Bajirao Mastani. The Filmfare awards turn out to be an epic evening indeed, with Bajirao Mastani walking away with the lion’s share. Here are a list of all the winners: Best Film  Bajirao Mastani Best Director  Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Bajirao Mastani Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female)  Deepika Padukone for Piku Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male)  Ranveer Singh for Bajirao Mastani Critics Choice Best Film  Piku Critics Choice Best Actor (Male)  Amitabh Bachchan for Piku Critics Choice Best Actor (Female)  Kangana Ranaut for Tanu Weds Manu Returns Best Debut Director  Neeraj Ghaywan for Masaan Best Debut (Female)  Bhumi Pednekar for Dum Laga Ke Haisha Best Debut (Male) Sooraj Pancholi for Hero Best Screenplay  Juhi Chaturvedi for Piku Best Editing  A Sreekar Prasad for Talvar Best Story  Vijayendra Prasad for Bajrangi Bhaijaan Best Dialogue  Himanshu Sharma for Tanu Weds Manu Returns Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)  Priyanka Chopra for Bajirao Mastani Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) Anil Kapoor For Dil Dhadakne Do Lifetime Achievement Award  Moushumi Chatterjee Best Choreography  Pandit Birju Maharaj for Mohe Rang Do Laal from Bajirao Mastani Best Cinematography  Manu Anand for Dum Laga Ke Haisha Best Action  Sham Kaushal for Bajirao Mastani Best Background Score  Anupam Roy for Piku Best VFX  Prana Studio for Bombay Velvet Best Costume  Anju Modi and Maxima Basu for Bajirao Mastani Best Sound Design  Shajith Koyeri for Talvar Best Production Design  Sujeet Sawant, Sriram Iyengar and Saloni Dhatrak for Bajirao Mastani Best Playback Singer Female  Shreya Ghoshal for Deewani Mastani from Bajirao Mastani Best Playback Singer Male  Arijit Singh for Sooraj Dooba Hai from Roy Best Lyrics  Irshad Kamil for Agar Tum Saath Ho from Tamasha Best Music  Ankit Tiwari, Meet Bros Anjjan and Amaal Mallik for Roy RD Burman Award  Armaan Malik