56th Filmfare Awards explained

Number:	56
Award:	Filmfare Awards
Date:	29 January 2011
Site:	Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai
Host:	Imran Khan Ranbir Kapoor Karan Johar Vir Das Prachi Desai Anushka Sharma
Best Film:	Dabangg
Best Critic:	Udaan
Most Wins:	Udaan (7)
Most Nominations:	My Name Is Khan (10)
Network:	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
Last:	55th
Next:	57th

The 56th Filmfare Awards were held on 29 January 2011 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai, honouring the best in film for the year 2010. The nominations were announced on 13 January. The date of the function was unusual because generally the awards are hosted on the last Saturday of February.^[1] The date of the telecast is 6 February 2011.

My Name Is Khan led the ceremony with 10 nominations, followed by Dabangg and Udaan with 9 nominations each.

Udaan won 7 awards, including Best Film (Critics) (for Vikramaditya Motwane) and Best Supporting Actor (for Ronit Roy), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Both Shah Rukh Khan (with his eighth Best Actor win) and Kajol (with her fifth Best Actress win), matched the records previously set by Dilip Kumar and Nutan (also, Kajol's aunt) in their respective categories. They both won the award for Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan, who also won Best Director.

Sisters Ratna Pathak Shah and Supriya Pathak were nominated for Best Supporting Actress for their performances in Golmaal 3 and respectively, but both lost to Kareena Kapoor who won the award for We Are Family.

Awards and nominees

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
Dabangg – Arbaaz Khan Band Baaja Baaraat – Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra My Name Is Khan – Hiroo Johar, Gauri Khan Peepli Live – Aamir Khan Udaan – Ronnie Screwvala, Anurag Kashyap, Sanjay Singh	Karan Johar – My Name Is Khan Abhinav Kashyap – Dabangg Maneesh Sharma – Band Baaja Baaraat Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Guzaarish Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan Milan Luthria – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai
Best Actor	Best Actress
Shah Rukh Khan – My Name Is Khan as Rizwan Khan Ajay Devgn – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Sultan Mirza Hrithik Roshan – Guzaarish as Ethan Mascarenhas Ranbir Kapoor – Raajneeti as Samar Pratap Singh Salman Khan – Dabangg as Inspector Chulbul Pandey	Kajol – My Name Is Khan as Mandira Rathore Khan Aishwarya Rai – Guzaarish as Sofia D'Souza Anushka Sharma – Band Baaja Baaraat as Shruti Kakkar/Shruti Bittoo Sharma Kareena Kapoor – Golmaal 3 as Daboo Vidya Balan – Ishqiya as Krishna Verma
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Ronit Roy – Udaan as Bhairav Singh Arjun Rampal – Raajneeti as Prithviraj Pratap Singh Arshad Warsi – Ishqiya as Razzak Hussain / Babban Emraan Hashmi – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Shoaib Khan Manoj Bajpai – Raajneeti as Veerendra Pratap Singh Nana Patekar – Raajneeti as Brijgopal Pratap Singh	Kareena Kapoor – We Are Family as Shreya Arora Amrita Puri – Aisha as Shefali Thakur Prachi Desai – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Mumtaz Ratna Pathak – Golmaal 3 as Geeta / Guddi Supriya Pathak – as Hansa Praful Parekh
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Ranveer Singh – Band Baaja Baaraat as Bittoo Sharma	Sonakshi Sinha – Dabangg as Rajjo
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Sajid–Wajid and Lalit Pandit – Dabangg Pritam – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – My Name Is Khan Vishal–Shekhar – Anjaana Anjaani Vishal–Shekhar – I Hate Luv Storys Vishal Bhardwaj – Ishqiya	Gulzar – "Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji" from *Ishqiya* Faiz Anwar – "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain" from Dabangg Niranjan Iyengar – "Noor-e-Khuda" from My Name Is Khan Niranjan Iyengar – "Sajda" from My Name Is Khan Vishal Dadlani – "Bin Tere" from I Hate Luv Storys
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – "Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji" from *Ishqiya* Adnan Sami and Shankar Mahadevan – "Noor-e-Khuda" from My Name Is Khan Mohit Chauhan – "Pee Loon" from Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – "Sajda" from My Name Is Khan Shafqat Amanat Ali – "Bin Tere" from I Hate Luv Storys	Mamta Sharma – "Munni Badnaam Hui" from *Dabangg* Sunidhi Chauhan – "Sheila Ki Jawani" from *Tees Maar Khan* Shreya Ghoshal – "Bahara" from I Hate Luv Storys Shreya Ghoshal – "Noor-e-Khuda" from My Name Is Khan Sunidhi Chauhan – "Udi" from Guzaarish

Critics' Awards

Best Movie (Best Director)
*Udaan* (Vikramaditya Motwane)
Best Actor	Best Actress
Rishi Kapoor – Do Dooni Chaar as Santosh Duggal	Vidya Balan – Ishqiya as Krishna Verma

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan	Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Habib Faisal – Do Dooni Chaar	Namrata Rao – Love Sex aur Dhokha
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Farah Khan – "Sheila Ki Jawani" from *Tees Maar Khan*	Mahendra Shetty – Udaan
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Mukund Gupta – Do Dooni Chaar	Kunal Sharma – Udaan (tie) Pritam Das – Love Sex aur Dhokha
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Varsha and Shilpa – Do Dooni Chaar	Amit Trivedi – Udaan
Best Special Effects	Best Action
	Vijayan Master – Dabangg

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement
Manna Dey
RD Burman Award
Sneha Khanwalkar for *Love Sex aur Dhokha*
Best Scene
*Golmaal 3*
Special Award
Amitabh Bachchan – for completing 40 years in the Indian film industry.
Madhuri Dixit – for completing 25 years in the Indian film industry.

Multiple wins

The following films received multiple awards and nominations.

Movie	Awards
Udaan	7
Dabangg	6
Do Dooni Chaar	4
Ishqiya	3
Love Sex aur Dhokha	3
My Name Is Khan	3
Tees Maar Khan	2
Band Baaja Baaraat	2

Partners

Idea Cellular – Title Sponsor
PC Jeweller – Associate Sponsor
Sony Entertainment Television – Telecast Partner
Whyte and Mackay from United Spirits – Beverage Partner
Bright Outdoor Media – Outdoor partner
Big Cinemas – Multiplex Partner

External links

Notes and References

News: Filmfare awards a month ahead of schedule. The Times of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104110914/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-14/mumbai/28378149_1_filmfare-tarun-rai-gsm-mobile-users. dead. 4 November 2012. 14 January 2011. 2011-01-14.