34-424: Indra Kumar (born Indra Irani ) is an Indian film director and producer. He had five Filmfare nominations, has also appeared in number of Gujarati -language films. His latest film produced is Thank God (2022). Kumar debuted into direction as well as production with Dil (1990) and then directed the different concept-based drama films Beta (1992), Raja (1995) and Ishq (1997); all four being among
68-481: A major commercial success as well as the highest-grossing Indian film of the year just like Dil . For directing the film, Kumar received his first Best Director nomination at Filmfare. In 1995, Kumar once again collaborated with Dixit in the romantic action film Raja , which also starred Sanjay Kapoor . The film, which narrated the story of a man and woman who were about to get married in their childhood but fall in love and get married in their youth, proved to be
102-463: A number of films but experienced a setback. These films were Mann , Aashiq , Rishtey , Masti (the first film of the Masti franchise ), and Pyare Mohan . With the exception of Masti which was moderately successful, all these films were commercial failures and critical successes. Kumar's directorial career prospects briefly improved when he directed the ensemble comedy Dhamaal (2007),
136-647: 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
170-422: A super hit status. Kumar will next direct Hera Pheri 3 , the third installment of the comedy franchise Hera Pheri , starring Akshay Kumar , Paresh Rawal , and Suniel Shetty . Kumar announced to direct the film after the death of Neeraj Vora , who directed the second installment and was to direct Hera Pheri 3 too. Later, reports suggested that Kumar will not direct Hera Pheri 3 , so Priyadarshan , who
204-462: 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
238-418: Is an Indian comedy film series directed and co-produced by Indra Kumar . The first two films featured Riteish Deshmukh , Arshad Warsi , Jaaved Jaaferi , Ashish Chaudhary , and Sanjay Dutt in lead roles. The third installment also featured Ajay Devgn , Anil Kapoor , Johnny Lever , Boman Irani , Mahesh Manjrekar and Madhuri Dixit along with the original cast, but Dutt and Chaudhary did not appear in
272-650: Is heavily inspired from the 2001 American comedy film Rat Race directed by Jerry Zucker. Dhamaal was released on 7 September 2007, and gained positive reviews. It earned ₹50.73 crore worldwide The film was declared as a box-office success. After the success of Dhamaal Indra and Sanjay re-united once again for sequel. The film was titled as Dhamaal 2: 420s , but is known as Double Dhamaal or Super Kameenas and also second installment in this series. The plot focused on Four idlers make elaborate plans to earn money by investing in buildings but are conned by Kabir, who leaves them unemployed and penniless. Soon, they are on
306-612: 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
340-506: The 3rd highest-grossing Indian film of the year . Kumar received a second Best Director nomination at Filmfare. In 1997, Kumar directed the action romantic comedy Ishq starring Ajay Devgn , Aamir Khan , Kajol , and Juhi Chawla . The film, based on the subject of true love, received negative reviews from critics but proved to be one of the year's top-grossing productions with grossing revenues of ₹ 500 million (US$ 6.0 million) worldwide. From 1999 to 2006, Kumar continued to direct
374-597: The Dhamaal franchise , titled Total Dhamaal , which was not a sequel to Double Dhamaal and was a reboot to it, having a different story and a different genre of adventure comedy. Ajay Devgn , Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Javed Jaffrey, Arshad Warsi , Boman Irani , and Esha Gupta played the lead roles (Deshmukh, Jaffrey, and Warsi reprised their roles). Total Dhamaal proved to be Kumar's highest-grossing film release, collecting ₹ 2 billion (US$ 24 million) within 12 days of its release, thus attaining
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#1732798590048408-480: The highest-grossing Hindi films and remains his highest-grossing release till date. He is the brother of actress Aruna Irani . He is father of actress Shweta Kumar. In 1990, Kumar made his directorial debut with the romance Dil starring Aamir Khan and Madhuri Dixit . The film, which was co-produced by him and based on a tale of parental opposition of teenage love, emerged as a major commercial success, and finished up as India's highest-grossing Indian film of
442-549: 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
476-649: 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
510-640: 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,
544-591: 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
578-472: The box office. He next directed the third installment of the Masti franchise , titled Great Grand Masti (2016), again starring the previous three male leads. Unlike the success of the previous two films, Great Grand Masti was a major financial failure grossing ₹ 190 million (US$ 2.3 million) worldwide on a budget of ₹ 390 million (US$ 4.7 million). In 2019, Kumar directed the third installment of
612-419: The cast as the new female leads. The film received positive response from critics and became the most successful entry in the Masti franchise , with a gross revenue of more than ₹ 1.3 billion (US$ 16 million). The following year, Kumar directed the drama Super Nani (2014), which starred Sharman Joshi , Rekha , Randhir Kapoor , Anupam Kher , and Kumar's daughter Shweta Kumar. It failed to do well at
646-453: The film almost opened at a 100% response. The film collected approximately ₹ 76.1 million net on its first day, according to Box Office India . The movie grossed ₹ 700 million worldwide. Box Office India finally declared it a "Average". The movie was remade in Tamil in 2000 as Sudhandhiram . A sequel, Total Dhamaal, was commissioned after the release of the previous film and
680-480: The first film of the Dhamaal franchise , starring Sanjay Dutt , Riteish Deshmukh , Aashish Chaudhary , Arshad Warsi , and Javed Jaffrey . The film received unfavourable reactions from critics and was a commercial success, grossing over ₹ 800 million (US$ 9.6 million) worldwide. After a four-year absence from directing films, Kumar directed Double Dhamaal (2011). A sequel to Dhamaal (2007), it retained
714-617: The five previous lead actors, and also added Kangana Ranaut and Mallika Sherawat in the roles of Sanjay Dutt's sister and wife respectively. Collecting totally ₹ 710 million (US$ 8.5 million) worldwide, Double Dhamaal proved to be a box office hit, despite being critically panned unlike its predecessor Kumar's next directorial venture was yet another comedy film sequel– Grand Masti (2013)–a sequel to Masti . It saw Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani , and Vivek Oberoi , reprising their roles from Masti , with Karishma Tanna , Manjari Fadnis , and Sonali Kulkarni entering
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#1732798590048748-534: 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
782-535: The highest-grossing Hindi films of respective years and critically as well as commercially successful. He received two Filmfare Award for Best Director nominations for Beta and Raja . He followed this with a number of average grossers or commercial failures, causing a setback, except the comedy Masti (2004), which ended with Dhamaal (2007). Kumar went on to make commercially successful comedy film sequels including Double Dhamaal (2011), Grand Masti (2013) and Total Dhamaal (2019). The latter ranks among
816-464: 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
850-522: 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
884-470: 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. Dhamaal (film series) Dhamaal
918-517: The prowl to avenge their humiliation. Dhamaal 2 was released on 24 June 2011, and received mixed to negative reviews from critics upon release. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 20% rotten rating. Mayank Shekhar of the Hindustan Times rated the film with 1 out of 5 stars. According to Box Office India , the film had a good opening of 60 - 70% collections. At a few multiplexes, such as, Spice Noida, E Square Pune and Wave Ludhiana,
952-567: The third film. Dhamaal was released on 7 September 2007. The film spawned two sequels: Double Dhamaal (2011), which was a direct sequel to the first film, and Total Dhamaal (2019), which was a reboot inspired by the story of the first film. The first installment of the series, centers on the fictional incidents. The film stars Sanjay Dutt , Ritesh Deshmukh , Arshad Warsi , Aashish Chaudhary and Javed Jaffrey while Asrani , Sanjay Mishra , Vijay Raaz , Manoj Pahwa , Tiku Talsania and Prem Chopra are featured in supporting roles. It
986-505: The year , with domestic gross earnings of ₹ 180 million (US$ 2.2 million). The film was nominated for eight awards at the 36th Filmfare Awards , including a nomination in the Best Film category for Kumar. The drama Beta (1992), based on the concept of how greediness overtakes family values, was Kumar's next directorial venture. The film starred Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor , and Kumar's elder sister Aruna Irani , and proved to be
1020-565: Was also directed by Indra, with both Riteish Deshmukh and Jaaved Jaaferi reprising their roles and Ajay Devgn , Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit were new additions in cast playing leading roles. Sanjay Dutt and some other actors which were in the previous two parts were not in this third installment. The film focused on When a plane carrying a thief's treasure crashes in Janakpur, a group of eccentric people and seasoned con artists compete against each other to find it first. Total Dhamaal
1054-471: Was released on 22 February 2019, and gained positive reviews. Himesh Mankad from Koimoi gives 3 star out of 5 says "Total Dhamaal is a fair clean entertainer that can be enjoyed with the entire family. It's definitely an improvement over previous installment Double Dhamaal". In opening week the film grossed ₹ 150 crore (US$ 18 million). In 12 days of its release the film crossed ₹ 200 crore (US$ 24 million) mark in gross collection. On 20 April 2019,
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1088-462: Was the director of the first installment , will return for Hera Pheri 3 . But it was later finally confirmed by Kumar that he will direct the film. 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
1122-657: 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
1156-580: 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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