50th Filmfare Awards explained

Number:	50
Award:	Filmfare Awards
Date:	26 February 2005
Site:	MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai
Host:	Saif Ali Khan
Best Film:	Veer-Zaara
Best Critic:	Dev and Yuva
Most Wins:	Yuva (6)
Most Nominations:	Veer-Zaara (15)
Network:	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
Last:	49th
Next:	51st

The 50th Filmfare Awards, honoring Cinema of India, took place on 26 February 2005 in Mumbai. This was the awards' golden jubilee year and to commemorate the occasion, the Filmfare award trophy (The Black Lady statue) was made in gold. Moreover, a special award: Best Film in 50 Years was also presented to Ramesh Sippy's Sholay (1975).^[1]

Veer-Zaara led the ceremony with 15 nominations, followed by Main Hoon Na with 12 nominations, Hum Tum and Swades with 8 nominations, and Yuva with 7 nominations each.

Yuva earned 6 awards, including Best Supporting Actor (for Abhishek Bachchan) and Best Supporting Actress (for Rani Mukherji), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Shah Rukh Khan received triple nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Main Hoon Na, Swades and Veer-Zaara, winning for Swades.

Akshay Kumar received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Khakee and Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, but lost to Abhishek Bachchan who won the award for Yuva.

Rani Mukherji set an unmatched record, becoming the only actress to win both popular female acting awards in the same year, winning Best Actress for Hum Tum and Best Supporting Actress for Yuva. She also received an additional Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance in Veer-Zaara.

Main awards

Winners are indicated in bold.

Main Awards

Best Film	Best Director
*Veer-Zaara* Dhoom Hum Tum Main Hoon Na Swades	Kunal Kohli – Hum Tum Ashutosh Gowariker – Swades Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na Farhan Akhtar – Lakshya Rajkumar Santoshi – Khakee Yash Chopra – Veer-Zaara
Best Actor	Best Actress
Shah Rukh Khan – Swades as Mohan Bhargava Amitabh Bachchan – Khakee as D.C.P. Anand K. Srivastava Hrithik Roshan – Lakshya as Karan Shergill Shah Rukh Khan – Main Hoon Na as Major Ram Prasad Sharma Shah Rukh Khan – Veer-Zaara as Sq. Ldr. Veer Pratap Singh Saif Ali Khan – Hum Tum as Karan Kapoor	Rani Mukerji – Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash Aishwarya Rai – Raincoat as Neerja Preity Zinta – Veer-Zaara as Zaara Hayaat Khan Shilpa Shetty – Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni Urmila Matondkar – Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Abhishek Bachchan – Yuva as Lallan Singh Akshay Kumar – Khakee as S.I. Shekhar Verma Akshay Kumar – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sunny Amitabh Bachchan – Veer-Zaara as Choudhary Sumer Singh Zayed Khan – Main Hoon Na as Lakshman Prasad "Lucky" Sharma	Rani Mukerji – Yuva as Shashi Lal Biswas Amrita Rao – Main Hoon Na as Sanjana Bakshi Divya Dutta – Veer-Zaara as Shabana 'Shabbo' Ibrahim Priyanka Chopra – Aitraaz as Sonia Roy Rani Mukerji – Veer-Zaara as Saamiya Siddiqui
Best Performance in a Comic Role	Best Performance in a Negative Role
Saif Ali Khan – Hum Tum as Karan Kapoor Akshay Kumar – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sunny Arshad Warsi – Hulchul Boman Irani – Main Hoon Na as Principal Paresh Rawal – Hulchul	Priyanka Chopra – Aitraaz as Sonia Roy Abhishek Bachchan – Yuva as Lallan Singh Ajay Devgan – Khakee as Yashwant Angre John Abraham – Dhoom as Kabir Sunil Shetty – Main Hoon Na as Raghavan Dutta
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Not Awarded	Ayesha Takia –
Best Story	Best Screenplay
Veer-Zaara – Aditya Chopra	Yuva – Mani Ratnam
Best Dialogue	Best Background Score
Veer-Zaara – Aditya Chopra	Swades – A. R. Rahman
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Main Hoon Na – Anu Malik Dhoom – Pritam Hum Tum – Jatin–Lalit Murder – Anu Malik Swades – A. R. Rahman Veer-Zaara – Madan Mohan	Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for "Tere Liye" Main Hoon Na – Javed Akhtar for "Main Hoon Na" Swades – Javed Akhtar for "Yeh Taara Woh Taara" Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for "Aisa Des Hai Mera" Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for "Main Yahaan Hoon"
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Murder – Kunal Ganjawala for "Bheege Hont Tere" Main Hoon Na – Sonu Nigam for "Main Hoon Na" Main Hoon Na – Sonu Nigam for "Tumse Milke" Swades – Udit Narayan and Master Vignesh for "Yeh Taara Woh Taara" Veer-Zaara – Sonu Nigam for "Do Pal" Veer-Zaara – Udit Narayan for "Main Yahaan Hoon"	Hum Tum – Alka Yagnik for "Hum Tum" Dhoom – Sunidhi Chauhan for "Dhoom Machale Dhoom" Kyun! Ho Gaya Na... – Sadhana Sargam for "Aao Na" Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Alka Yagnik for "Lal Dupatta" Swades – Alka Yagnik for "Saawariya"
Best Action	Best Art Direction
Yuva – Vikram Dharma	Yuva – Sabu Cyril
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Lakshya – Christopher Popp	Dhoom – Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Best Choreography	Best Sound Design
Lakshya – Prabhu Deva for "Main Aisa Kyun Hoon..."	Dhoom – Dwarak Warrier
Power Award	Best Scene of the Year
Shah Rukh Khan	*Hum Tum*

Critics' awards

Best Film (Best Director)
Dev – Govind Nihalani Yuva – Mani Ratnam
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Pankaj Kapur – Maqbool* as Jahangir Khan (Abbaji)**	*Kareena Kapoor – Dev* as Aaliya**

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Rajesh Khanna
R. D. Burman Award
Kunal Ganjawala
Power Award
Shah Rukh Khan
Special Awards
Dilip Kumar Naushad Lata Mangeshkar Ramesh Sippy for Sholay

Major winners and nominees

Yuva – 6/7
Hum Tum – 5/8
Veer-Zaara – 4/15
Dev – 2/2
Lakshya – 2/4
Dhoom – 2/6
Swades – 2/8
Aitraaz – 1/2
Murder – 1/2
– 1/1
Main Hoon Na – 1/12
Khakee – 0/4
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – 0/3

References

Filmfare Awards at IMDb

Notes and References

News: Filmfare Awards Winners From 1953 to 2019 . 14 February 2020 . filmfare.com . en.