29-575: Filmfare Awards Bangla is the Bengali segment of the annual Filmfare Awards , presented by The Times Group to honour the artistic and cinematic excellence in Bengali . The first installment of the awards were held collectively for Bengali , Assamese and Odia films as Filmfare Awards East , in a ceremony on 29 March 2014. The award ceremony was discontinued for two consecutive years in 2015 and 2016 due to unequal representation and importance among
58-491: A new generation star, with his action and comedy movies gave national recognition to odiya industry. Actress Nandita Das , who acted in several Hindi movies like Fire, has an Odia origin. She acted in the Susanta Misra-directed Biswaprakash , which won a National Award in 2000. Barsha Priyadarshini is also another successful actress in the millennium era of Odia cinema. Anubhab Mohanty is
87-647: A recorded and edited version of the awards ceremony was televised on SET a week or two after the ceremony has been held. Since 2018 , the ceremony has been televised on Colors . Until 2023, the function was held in Mumbai except for year 2020 when the 65th Filmfare Awards event was held on 16 February 2020 at Sarusajai Stadium, Guwahati . Until the mid-1990s, Filmfare Awards were the preeminent and most-recognised awards in Bollywood until several other awards sprouted up in Mumbai. This has resulted in poor viewership since
116-462: Is 46.5 cm and it weighs around 5 kg. To celebrate the 25th year of the awards, the statues were made in silver and to celebrate the 50th year the statues were made in gold . The Filmfare trophy has been manufactured by The Award Gallery since 2000. Until 2012, there had only been a few changes made to the trophy. But as of 2014, a huge change was made to give the trophy a 3-D look. There were two reasons given for this change. First, that
145-612: Is one of the most famous film events in India. The awards were introduced by Filmfare magazine of The Times Group in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards . They were initially referred to as the "Clare Awards" or "The Clares" after Clare Mendonça , the editor of The Times of India and modelled after the Academy Awards . A dual voting system was developed in 1956. Under this system, in contrast to
174-641: Is the segment of Indian cinema , dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Odia language widely spoken in the state of Odisha . Odia Cinema is based in Cuttack in Odisha , India. The name Ollywood is a portmanteau of the words Odia and Hollywood . In 1974, the Government of Odisha declared film making and construction of cinema theatres as an industry in the state, and in 1976 it established
203-543: The Odisha Film Development Corporation in Cuttack . Odisha has a history of filmmaking, starting from 1936. The first Odia film is Sita Bibaha , made by Mohan Sundar Deb Goswami in 1936. Drawn from the Indian epic Ramayana , the story is about the marriage of Sita and Ram . The film plot was made from a drama written by Kamapala Mishra. Prepared with a budget of only Rs 30,000,
232-549: The 2000s. In addition to the flagship event, Filmfare also has variants for other Indian film industries, such as Filmfare Awards South for South Indian cinema ; Filmfare Marathi Awards for Marathi cinema ; Filmfare Awards Bangla for Bengali cinema , Assamese cinema , and Odia cinema ; Filmfare Awards Punjabi for Punjabi cinema ; Filmfare OTT Awards for over-the-top films , Filmfare Short Film Awards for short films ; and Filmfare Style & Glamour Awards. The Filmfare awards were introduced in 1954. The Clares
261-609: The 3 film industries. It was again started from 2017 as Filmfare Awards Bangla and is given only to the Bengali Film Industry . On 8 March 2014, in a press conference held at Kolkata , the Worldwide Media Group announced that Filmfare Award is debuting in Eastern India named as "Filmfare Awards East" to honour the best cinematic artistic talents of the region. In the inaugural installment, it
290-487: The 44th National Film Festival. Besides he has also directed many award winning movies such as Matira Bandhana, Krantidhara and the Sea and Seven Villages. Uttam Mohanty , whose debut film Abhiman won accolades, was very successful in the 1980s. His wife Aparajita Mohanty is also an actress. Critics have named Bijay Mohanty and Mihir Das to be two of the best Odia actors so far 80'and 90's. In 1990s Siddhanta Mahapatra ,
319-649: The Black Lady home. The 2013 Filmfare awards took place in Mumbai at the Yash Raj Studios in Andheri . A special press conference was held just for its announcement and this took place at the Suburban hotel in Mumbai as well. The theme that year was a hundred years in the future. The reason for the theme to be held that year was because it was meant to be continuous from the previous year's theme, where
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#1732783455108348-640: The National Film Awards, which are decided by a panel appointed by the Indian Government, the Filmfare Awards are voted on by both the public and a committee of experts. The ceremony has been sponsored by various private organisations in the past as well as in present provisions. During several years in the 1990s, a live ceremony was broadcast to television audiences but was later discontinued due to unknown reasons. Since 2001,
377-575: The Odia and Assamese films. The Award ceremony was not hosted in 2015 and 2016. From 2017 the award is given only to Bengali film industry and 2020 onwards, the award was rebranded as "Filmfare Awards Bangla". Filmfare Awards Gangubai Kathiawadi 12th Fail The Filmfare Awards are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi -language film industry of India (not all Indian Cinema ). The Filmfare ceremony
406-463: The Odia film industry, followed by Chaka Aakhi Sabu Dekhuchi and Asuchi Mo Kalia Suna . He frequently collaborated with Raju Mishra, Akshaya Mohanty , Bijay Mohanty and Uttam Mohanty . He started the trend of producing trilingual films in the Odia film industry. Raja Rani , Paradeshi Babu and Parimahal were made in Odia, Bengali and Bangladeshi. He made a comeback as a director and made Tulasi Apa produced by his son Anupam Patnaik. Tulasi Apa
435-463: The Odia film industry. He was present in Odia films since 1959, but he became very active only after 1976. Nanda was an actor, director, screenplay writer, lyricist and playback singer. Nanda won National Awards three times, in 1960, 1966 and 1969 for his acting in Nua Bou , Matira Manisha and Adina Megha . Mohammad Mohsin started the revolution in the Odia film industry by not only securing
464-533: The banquet that followed the award night at Wellington Club (Gymkhana), Mumbai. The winners for the year 1985 were announced in 1986 and the event was scheduled to be held at the Brabourne Stadium in December 1986. The Bombay Film Industry as it was known then, went on strike in 1986 because of its many contentious issues with the Government of Maharashtra . As a result, the ceremony was pushed to
493-495: The dimension of the Odia film industry by producing big budget movies with multiple star casts, which was a new trend at that time. He introduced many newcomers, musicians, technicians and singers from Mumbai and Chennai . He also produced the National Award-winning film Hakim Babu in 1985, directed by Pranab Das. His film Pua Mora Kala Thakura , directed by Raju Mishra, was one of the biggest successes in
522-715: The essence of the Odia culture but also changing the way the film industry watched Odia movies. Phoola Chandana was written by Ananda Sankar Das. He belongs to Cuttack . His movies heralded the golden era of the Odia film industry by bringing in freshness to Odia movies. His directorial debut was Phoola Chandana for which he won the Odisha State Film Award for Best Director . He had to his credit 16 box office successful movies in his directorial stint. He started as an actor in character roles and gave household names like Raaka to Odisha . Amiya Ranjan Patnaik, who started his career directing Mamata Mage Mula , changed
551-515: The film has 14 song sequences. Despite it being the first Odia film with several drawbacks in every section of its making, the two-hour-long movie generated great enthusiasm among the people. It was released in Lakhmi Talkies, Puri . The 12-reeled film had in its cast Makhanlal Banerjee (Ram), who received only Rs 120 for his performance, Aditya Ballabha Mohanty (Lakhmana), who got only Rs 35 as conveyance allowance, and Prabati Debi (Sita), who
580-481: The fraternity celebrated the completion of a hundred years in Indian cinema at the box office. The statuette , depicting a woman whose arms are upraised in a dance number with her fingers touching, is commonly referred to as "The Black Lady" (or "The Lady in Black"). Originally designed by N.G. Pansare under the supervision of Times of India ' s art director Walter Langhammer, it is generally made of bronze, its height
609-464: The jury. The People's Choice Award for Best Short Film was presented to Khamakha . Short films like Chutney , Matitali Kusti and Taandav won awards as well. Hollywood star Gregory Peck was invited to be the guest of honour at the first ever awards on 21 March 1954 at the Metro theatre, Mumbai but could not make it to the function since his flight from Colombo got delayed. However, Peck did attend
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#1732783455108638-522: The next year. The winners of 1985 were awarded on 28 January 1987. For security reasons, the Filmfare was not awarded for 1986 and 1987. The Red Carpet is a segment that takes place before the beginning of the actual ceremony. This is when actors, actresses, producers, directors, singers, composers, and others that have contributed to Indian cinema are introduced. Hosts question the celebrities about upcoming performances and who they think deserves to take
667-492: The organisers believe that it was necessary to match the many advances in technology in today's world, which will advance a lot more in the coming years as well. This was also an attempt to match the theme of the 2013 set of awards at Filmfare in Mumbai: a hundred years leap into the future. In 2020, Filmfare started Filmfare OTT Awards for the best in web series. Odia cinema Odia cinema , also known as Ollywood ,
696-540: Was a critical success within many international festivals. This was the first biopic of Odisha based on Padmashree Tulasi Munda . Himansu Sekhar Khatua , an Indian director, educationalist, and journalist who directed the national film award winning movies Sunya Swaroop and Kathantara in 1996 and 2005 respectively. Mr Khatua is the National Film Award recipient for Best Film direction in 2005 and National Award recipient for best debut film Sunya Swaroop in
725-494: Was declared that awards in 29 categories would be given away at the Science City auditorium , Kolkata on 29 March 2014. The awards would include 21 trophies for Bengali movies and four each for Odia and Assamese films. The four categories for both Odia and Assamese films were Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. The winners were selected from 102 entries in Bengali films, 36 and 14 entries respectively from
754-417: Was paid the highest amount of Rs 150. This was a landmark film of the Odia film Industry. The pace of Odia film production in the initial years was very slow. After Sita Bibaha , only two films were produced until 1951. A joint consortium of landlords and businessmen who collected funds after 1948 produced those two movies. The 1951 production Roles Two Eight was the first Odia film with an English name. It
783-471: Was released 15 years after the first Odia film, Sita Bibaha . It was the fourth Odia film produced by Ratikant Padhi. The eleventh Odia film, Sri Lokanath , was directed by Prafulla Sengupta and received the National Award in 1960. The same year, Prasanta Nanda won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia for his debut film, Nua Bou . His name would always be synonymous with
812-657: Was the first movie to win the award for Best Film. The first winners for the other four categories were: Bimal Roy for his direction of Do Bigha Zameen , Dilip Kumar for his performance in Daag , Meena Kumari for her performance in Baiju Bawra , and Naushad Ali for his music in Baiju Bawra . The Filmfare Awards also introduced the Short Film Category in 2017, with Vidya Balan and Gauri Shinde on
841-580: Was the original name of the award ceremony, named after The Times of India critic Clare Mendonca . Readers of Filmfare were polled to decide the winners, and over 20,000 readers spread throughout India participated in the polls; trophies were given to winners of the popular vote. In the first awards function, held on 21 March 1954 at the Metro Theatre of Mumbai , only five awards were presented: Best Film , Best Director , Best Actor , Best Actress , and Best Music Director. Do Bigha Zameen
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