1st Filmfare Awards

1954 awards for Hindi cinema November 2018 November 2018 1 Filmfare Awards 21 March 1954 Metro Cinema, Bombay David Do Bigha Zamin Baiju Bawra & Do Bigha Zamin (2) 2nd The 1st Filmfare Awards were held on 21 March 1954, honoring the best in Hindi cinema in 1953. That year they were known as the Clare Awards, after Clare Mendonça, a film critic of The Times of India who had died in the same year. The films Baiju Bawra & Do Bigha Zamin won two awards each, with the former winning Best Actress (for Meena Kumari) and Best Music Director (for Naushad for ''Tu Ganga Ki Mauj''), and the latter winning Best Film and Best Director (for Bimal Roy), thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony. Dilip Kumar won the first of his eight Best Actor awards for his performance in Daag. Awards In a short ceremony held at Metro Cinema in Bombay (now Mumbai), awards in only 5 categories were handed out. Tollywood's tryst with Black Lady http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Tollywoods-tryst-with-Black-Lady/articleshow/31698259.cms 9 March 2014 2014-04-28 The Times of India The chief guest of the function was George Allen, US Ambassador to India. The ceremony was compared by actor David, and it started with actress Nalini Jaywant singing the national anthem. This was followed by song and dance performance by various actors, musical performances by Talat Mehmood, Geeta Roy and Mohammed Rafi. Next two performances were classical dance performances by Vyjayanthimala and Surya Kumari. The finale of the performance section was a folk-dance performance, "Lure of Rajasthan" by Kamini Kaushal and her troupe.Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya NOTHING BUT!: Book Three: What Price Freedom https://books.google.com/books?id=HESVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 19 December 2013 Partridge Publishing 978-1-4828-1625-9 214–215 This led to the section where David announced the awards. No nominations were announced, just the winners. Keep with the voting process, where the readers of the magazine,Aswin Punathambekar Anandam P. Kavoori Rachel Dwer Global Bollywood https://books.google.com/books?id=2CqERCzWn5gC&pg=PA244 NYU Press 978-0-8147-2944-1 243–244 2008-08-01 decided the winners through postal votes, even the awards were given away by readers, chosen via a lucky draw. For example, the Best Film trophy was given by Ambassador Allen to a reader, Saijuddin from Hyderabad, who in turn presented it to Bimal Roy. This was followed by Best Actress which was won by Meena Kumari for Baiju Bawra and Best Actor went to Dilip Kumar for Daag. Next, ace music director Naushad won his first and only Filmfare Award, for Best Music for Baiju Bawra.The Winners - 1953 http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/366328.cms https://web.archive.org/web/20040309073303/http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/366328.cms dead 9 March 2004 Official Listings, Filmfare Awards, Indiatimes 8 May 2013 The final award, the Best Director was won by Bimal Roy, present by Sonny Cordiero, a reader from Mumbai. Incidentally, Bimal Roy and Dilip Kumar were the first winners of Best Director and Best Actor respectively, and remained almost 6 decades later, the ones with the most wins in either category, with 7 and 8 awards respectively. Additionally, Meena Kumari, who was the first winner for Best Actress, held the record for the most wins in the category (4) for 13 years, till her record was broken by Nutan with her 5th win at the 26th Filmfare Awards. Fearing similar mob of fans as outside Metro Cinema, the venue of the award party was not announced publicly. Later, around hundred invitees gathered at Wellington Gymkhana Club. Hollywood star Gregory Peck was invited to be the guest of honour at the awards but could not make it to the function since his flight from Colombo got delayed. However, Peck did attend the after-party banquet that followed the award night at Wellington Gymkhana Club, Mumbai.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/calcutta-times/I-behaved-like-Gregory-Peck-to-impress-Suraiya/articleshow/22778.cms 'I behaved like Gregory Peck to impress Suraiya' The Times of India 2003-06-14 2012-09-30liveindia.com http://www.liveindia.com/news/Filmfare_Awards_facts.html Filmfare Awards Facts Liveindia.com 2012-09-30 25 December 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181225233814/http://www.liveindia.com/news/Filmfare_Awards_facts.html%20 dead infobox 360 right left Bimal Roy 2007 stamp of India.jpg Bimal Roy, Best Director Naushadsaab1 (cropped).jpg Naushad, Best Music Director Dilip Kumar Jwar Bhata.jpg Dilip Kumar, Best Actor Meena Kumariji.jpg Meena Kumari, Best Actress Best FilmDo Bigha Zameen – Bimal Roy Productions|- ! style="background:#EEDD82;"|Best Director ! style="background:#EEDD82;"|Best Music Director |- |valign=top|Bimal Roy – Do Bigha ZameenNaushad – Baiju Bawra for Tu Ganga Ki MaujBest ActorBest ActressDilip Kumar – Daag as ShankarMeena Kumari – Baiju Bawra as Gauri Superlatives The following films had multiple wins Movie AwardsBaiju Bawra2Do Bigha Zameen See also 2nd Filmfare Awards Filmfare Awards References External links Winner and nomination of 1st Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database One Starry Night in Mumbai http://www.filmfare.com/awards/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991011122259/http://www.filmfare.com/awards/ dead Filmfare 11 October 1999 Category:Filmfare Awards by year Category:1954 in Indian cinema Filmfare Awards