The ‘only awards that matter’, or the 63rd Filmfare Awards were presented recently. Honouring technical and artistic excellence in the Hindi film industry, these awards are among the oldest and most respected in Bollywood. Here are some highlights of the Filmfare Awards 2018, a look at who won, some highlights and reactions:
With Hindi Medium winning the best film award, Irrfan Khan getting the best actor award and Vidya Balan bagging the best actress award, these awards were something of a departure from the norm. Also, surprising was that the coveted Best Director award went to Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari for Bareilly Ki Barfi.
The critic’ award for the best film went to the superlative film, Newton. Rajkumar Rao won the critics’ award for the best actor for Trapped, while Zaira Wasim won the critics’ award for the best female actor for Secret Superstar. The highly acclaimed, wryly funny Death in the Gunj won best debut director award for Konkona Sen Sharma.
This award appears to be something of an afterthought; at least the recipient of the award thought so. When yesteryears star Mala Sinha was given the Lifetime Achievement award, she recalled how she had never won a Filmfare during her heyday and that the awards don’t really mean anything.
Urvashi Rautela was well received on the red carpet and the shutterbugs loved what she wore. But that didn’t stop the trolls from slut-shaming her; many saying that her outfit amounted to a criminal offence. Of course, there were many who came to her defence, saying that a woman has the right to wear what she wants.
Some current recipients such as Rajkumar Rao and Vidya Balan as well as some beauties who ruled the roost in the past such as Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta were also photographed on the red carpet.
He is known for his outlandish outfits, so it wasn’t much of a wonder that Ranveer Singh turned up wearing this! ‘This’ is a suit featuring the posters of his fave films from the 80s and 90s.
Some publications opined that Sonam Kapoor was among the best dressed on the red carpet in that strange knee length suit. Then there was Diya Mirza in her tiered gown and others who were rather more elegantly dressed.
The current Ms India who went on to win the Ms World title Manushi Chillar was also spotted on the red carpet and then later on the stage with the stars.
Perhaps it was to explain away that fact that Salman Khan's movies such as Tubelight and Tiger Zinda Hai did not even get a mention at the awards.
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Here are some of the best moments of the Filmfare Awards 2018 night: SRK bowing to Ranveer Singh’s outlandish outfit, the two shaking a leg with Manushi, Jackie Shroff kissing Rekha’s hand and more.
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