50 years of filmfare awards |
50 years of filmfare awards |
Pradeep |
Aug 4 2004, 09:41 PM
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Found this lovely articles on filmfare. The articles contain rich images from the past awards. Since I cannot create the virtual feel here, I've got these articles scanned into PDF format.
The text part I am pasting it on the forum, so that we can look it up later during search. Starting from the 50s... going for Gold. Next year, the Filmfare Awards will celebrate 50 years of history and drama, winners and legends. We kick off the countdown to 2005 with a decade-by-decade look at the ballad of the black lady. Year 1954 'The whole purpose of the Filmfare Awards project is to make the public nationally conscious of, and interested in, the indigenous film industry. It is imperative that the picture-going public be helped to realise the Indian Film Industry's tremendous national significance. At the same time, the Film Industry itself must be made aware of its public, which stands as ultimate judge over its products.' Thus was announced the entry of the beauteous black lady on March 21, 1954. Amazing how true the words ring even today, in a vastly different context of globalisation and the film industry having obtained industry status. The acknowledgement of the power of the public vote, of course, remains the cornerstone of the Filmfare Awards. The first ladies The first event began with just five awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Song. The winners? Bimal Roy bagged the first two trophies for Do Bigha Zameen, then came Dilip Kumar for Daag, Meena Kumari for Baiju Bawra and Naushad for Tu ganga ki mauj in Baiju Bawra. Compering notes Star performances have always been the highlight of the Filmfare Awards. There were seven that year—Vyjayanthimala, Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mehmood, Kamini Kaushal, Nalini Jaywant, Satyavati and Geeta Roy (who later became Geeta Dutt when she married Guru Dutt). And the compere for the evening was the incomparable David who continued to do so for many years. From 1954's David to 2004's Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan, humour rules! Reader reaction Fittingly, the first ceremony was held in a movie hall—Mumbai's Metro cinema (oh, for those smallis- beautiful days). The awards were chosen on the basis of a popular poll conducted by the magazine. Four Filmfare readers, picked by a lucky draw from among those who participated in the poll, came up on stage to present the trophies to the winners. Attached File(s) Going_for_Gold_50s.pdf ( 676.54 k ) Number of hits: 185 by members kuch bhi nahin hai tera mol, boli na badi bol, khilona tu maati ka...
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Pradeep |
Aug 4 2004, 09:43 PM
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Year 1955
A perfect 10 The trophy tally went up to 10 with five new categories added—Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Best Sound and Best Photography. The Story, winners were David for Boot Polish, Usha Kiron for Baadban, Pandit Mukhram Sharma for Aulad, Ishan Ghosh for Jeevan Jyoti and Tara Dutt for Boot Polish respectively. Meena Kumari and Bimal Roy scored doubles with their second Filmfare awards, with Parineeta getting them the Best Actress and Best Director trophies. And, we're told, the first winner Naushad went backstage to congratulate his fellow music director S D Burman, who won the Best Music Award for Jaaye to jaaye kahan (Taxi Driver). Alas, there was no camera around to capture that photo-op. Better never than late Way before TV happened, the Filmfare Awards went multi-media with the ceremony recorded for the Lipton Hour programme of Radio Ceylon. The commentator was a certain Mr Balraj Dutt, who you might recognise by his better-known name, Sunil Dutt. The chief guest was the then-Chief Minister of Maharashtra Morarji Desai, known to be a stickler for rules. Not surprisingly, three items by Asha Bhosle, Sitara Devi and the Travancore Sisters (Lalitha, Ragini and Padmini) had to be dropped from the programme because the event overshot its time deadline. kuch bhi nahin hai tera mol, boli na badi bol, khilona tu maati ka...
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