66th Filmfare Awards: On Saturday evening, the 66th Filmfare Awards have been provided out, and amongst the greatest winners have been Taapsee Pannu-starrer Thappad, Amitabh Bachchan-Ayushamnn Khurrana’s Gulabo Sitabo and Ajay Devgn’s Tanhaji: The Unsung Hero. The occasion was held to felicitate achievements in the planet of Hindi cinema in 2020, which was a attempting year for the film business as a entire due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Thappad won a total of seven awards, like the Best Film. While Taapsee won Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female), Anubhav Sushila Singh and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul got Best Story award for the film. Raghav Chaitanya won Best Playback Singer (Male) for Thappad’s Ek Tukda Dhoop, Mangesh Urmila Dhakde got Best Background Score, Yasha Pushpa Ramchandani got Best Editing and Kaamod Kharade got Best Sound Design for the film.
Meanwhile, Gulabo Sitabo won six accolades on Saturday evening, with Amitabh Bachchan having Best Actor (Critics) for the film. Apart from this, Farrukh Jaffar won Best Actor in a Supporting Actor Role (Female), Juhi Chaturvedi won Best Dialogue, Abhik Mukhopadhyay bagged Best Cinematography, Veera Kapur Ee got Best Costume Design and the Best Production Design award went to Manasi Dhruv Mehta.
Late actor Irrfan Khan, who passed away final year in April, shortly soon after the release of his final film ‘Angrezi Medium’, got Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) for his work in the film. Apart from this, he was also honoured for his stellar profession in the film business with the Lifetime Achievement Award, each possessing been awarded posthumously.
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, which performed exceptionally properly at the box workplace soon after its January 2020 release, won 4 awards at the 66th Filmfare, with Om Raut winning the Best Director award. Apart from this, Saif Ali Khan won Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) for his part of Udaybhan Singh Rathore in the film. Ramazan Bulut and RP Yadav won Best Action and Prasad Sutar and NY Vfxwaala won the award for Best VFX for the film.
Apart from this, veteran lyricist Gulzar won Best Lyrics for Deepika Padukone-starrer Chhapaak.
The award for Best Film (Critics) was grabbed by debutant director Prateek Vats for Eeb Allay Ooh!