Laapataa Ladies has equalled this film’s record of winning most Filmfare Awards, it’s not Sholay, Devdas, K3G, DDLJ, Veer-Zaara, 3 Idiots

Laapataa Ladies and Gully Boy

The 70th Filmfare Awards were held recently in Ahmedabad on October 11, hosted by Shah Rukh Khan. Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies broke the record for most nominations with 24 nominations. Out of these 24 categories, the comedy-drama won 13 awards, tying the record of winning most Filmfare Awards by a film. The last film to win 13 Filmfare Awards was Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy.

While Laapataa Ladies won the Best Film award, Kiran Rao received the Best Director award. Pratibha Ranta won the Best Actress (Critics) award. Ravi Kishan and Chhaya Kadam were named Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively. Nitanshi Goel won the Best Debut Actress award. Sneha Desai received the awards for Best Screenplay and Best Dialogue. Ram Sampath won the award for Best Music Director and Best Background Music. Arijit Singh was named Best Playback Singer – Male and Prashant Pandey was named Best Lyricist of the song Sajni. Darshan Jalan won the Best Costume Design award.

On the other hand, Gully Boy received the Best Film award, while Zoya Akhtar received the Best Director award. Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt were named Best Actor and Best Actress. Siddhant Chaturvedi and Amruta Subhash received the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards. Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti won the Best Screenplay award. Vijay Maurya won the Best Dialogue award. Ankur Tewari won the Best Music Director award and Divine was awarded the Best Lyricist award for Apna Time Aayega. Suzanne Caplan Merwanji, Jay Oza and Karsh Kale received awards for Best Production Design, Best Cinematography and Best Background Music.

Interestingly, both Gully Boy and Laapataa Ladies were selected as India’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, but they failed to get nominated. While Zoya Akhtar’s film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, Kiran Rao’s direction was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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