41st Filmfare Awards

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The 41st Filmfare Awards were held in 1996.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, considered one of the most successful films of Bollywood, and Rangeela led the ceremony with 14 nominations each, followed by Karan Arjun with 10 nominations.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge won 10 awards – a record at the time – including Best Film, Best Director (Aditya Chopra), Best Actor (Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (Kajol) and Best Supporting Actress (Farida Jalal), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Other films winning multiple awards included Rangeela with 7, Barsaat with 4 and Karan Arjun with 2 awards.

Madhuri Dixit received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Raja and Yaraana, but lost to Kajol who won the award for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

Kajol won her first of a record-setting five awards for Best Actress for her performance in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

A. R. Rahman won his first Best Music Director award at Filmfare for his first Hindi film Rangeela.

Main awards

Jackie Shroff — Best Supporting Actor winner for Rangeela

Best Film	Best Director
*Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge* Akele Hum Akele Tum Karan Arjun Raja Rangeela	*Aditya Chopra – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge* Indra Kumar – Raja Mansoor Khan – Akele Hum Akele Tum Rakesh Roshan – Karan Arjun Ram Gopal Verma – Rangeela
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Shah Rukh Khan – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge* Aamir Khan – Rangeela Ajay Devgan – Naajayaz Govinda – Coolie No.1 Salman Khan – Karan Arjun	*Kajol – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge* Madhuri Dixit – Raja Madhuri Dixit – Yaraana Manisha Koirala – Akele Hum Akele Tum Urmila Matondkar – Rangeela
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Jackie Shroff – Rangeela* Amrish Puri – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Anil Kapoor – Trimurti Naseeruddin Shah – Naajayaz Paresh Rawal – Raja	*Farida Jalal – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge* Aruna Irani – Kartavya Raakhee – Karan Arjun Rita Bhaduri – Raja Tanvi Azmi – Akele Hum Akele Tum
Best Performance in a Negative Role	Best Performance in a Comic Role
*Mithun Chakraborty – Jallad* Amrish Puri – Karan Arjun Ashish Vidyarthi – Drohkaal Danny Denzongpa – Barsaat Mohan Agashe – Trimurti	*Anupam Kher – Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge* Ashok Saraf – Karan Arjun Johnny Lever – Karan Arjun Kader Khan – Coolie No.1
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
*Rangeela – A. R. Rahman* Akele Hum Akele Tum – Anu Malik Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge – Jatin–Lalit Karan Arjun – Rajesh Roshan Raja – Nadeem-Shravan	*Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Anand Bakshi for Tujhe Dekha To* Akele Hum Akele Tum – Majrooh Sultanpuri for Raja Ko Rani Se Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Anand Bakshi for Ho Gaya Hai Tujhko Rangeela – Mehboob for Kya Karen Rangeela – Mehboob for Tanha Tanha
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
*Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Udit Narayan for Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna* Akele Hum Akele Tum – Udit Narayan for Raja Ko Rani Se Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Kumar Sanu for Tujhe Dekha To Criminal — Kumar Sanu for Tum Mile Dil Haqeeqat – Hariharan for Dil Ne Dil	*Yaraana – Kavita Krishnamurthy for Mera Piya Ghar Aaya* Akele Hum Akele Tum – Alka Yagnik for Raja Ko Rani Se Raja – Alka Yagnik for Akhiyan Milaun Rangeela – Kavita Krishnamurthy for Pyaar Yeh Jaane Rangeela – Shweta Shetty for Mangta Hai Kya	-

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
*Rangeela – Ram Gopal Verma*	*Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra*
Best Dialogue	Best Action
*Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Aditya Chopra and Javed Siddiqui*	*Karan Arjun*
Best Editing	Best Sound
*Karan Arjun – Sanjay Verma*	*Barsaat – Rakesh Ranjan*
Best Cinematography	Best Choreography
*Barsaat – Santosh Sivan*	*Rangeela – Ahmed Khan for Rangeela Re*
Best Costume Design	Best Art Direction
*Rangeela – Manish Malhotra*	*Prem – Bijon Dasgupta*

Special awards

Best Male Debut
*Bobby Deol – Barsaat*
Best Female Debut
*Twinkle Khanna – Barsaat*
R. D. Burman Award
*Mehboob*
Special Award
Asha Bhosle 'for the song "Tanha Tanha" in Rangeela. Long back, she stopped accepting nominations for Best Female Playback Singer, so Filmfare awarded her the Special Award for her rendition.
Lifetime Achievement Award
*Ashok Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt*