20th Filmfare Awards
Date21 April 1973[1]
SiteBombay
Highlights
Best FilmBe-Imaan
Most awardsBe-Imaan (7)
Most nominationsAmar Prem & Be-Imaan (8)

The 20th Filmfare Awards were held in 1973, awarding the films made in 1972.

Amar Prem and Be-Imaan led the ceremony with 8 nominations, followed by Shor with 7 nominations and Pakeezah with 5 nominations.

Be-Imaan won 7 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Sohanlal Kanwar), Best Actor (for Manoj Kumar) and Best Supporting Actor (for Pran), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Rajesh Khanna received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Amar Prem and Dushmun, but lost to Manoj Kumar who won the award for Be-Imaan.

At the ceremony, Meena Kumari earned a then record-setting twelfth and final nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the musical romantic drama Pakeezah after her death in March 1972. Despite being highly favored to win the award, she controversially lost the award to Hema Malini who won her first and only award in the category for her comic dual role in the comedy-drama Seeta Aur Geeta.

Pran, who won Best Supporting Actor for Be-Imaan refused to accept the award, on the grounds that the Best Music Director award should have gone to Ghulam Mohammed for Pakeezah, and not Shankar-Jaikishan for Be-Imaan.

Main Awards

Manoj Kumar — Best Actor winner for Be-Imaan
Hema Malini — Best Actress winner for Seeta Aur Geeta
Pran — Best Supporting Actor winner for Be-Imaan
Zeenat Aman — Best Supporting Actress winner for Hare Rama Hare Krishna
Paintal — Best Comic Actor winner for Bawarchi
Asha Bhosle — Best Playback singer winner for "Dum Maro Dum" (Hare Rama Hare Krishna)

Best Film

Be-Imaan

Best Director

Sohanlal Kanwar – Be-Imaan

Best Actor

Manoj Kumar – Be-Imaan

Best Actress

Hema Malini – Seeta Aur Geeta

Best Supporting Actor

Pran – Be-Imaan

Best Supporting Actress

Zeenat Aman – Hare Rama Hare Krishna

Best Comic Actor

Paintal – Bawarchi

Best Story

Anubhav – Basu Chatterjee

Best Screenplay

Amar Prem – Arabinda Mukhopadhyay

Best Dialogue

Amar Prem – Ramesh Pant

Best Music Director

Be-Imaan – Shankar-Jaikishan

Best Lyricist

Be-Imaan – Verma Malik for Jai Bolo Be-Imaan Ki

Best Playback Singer, Male

Be-Imaan – Mukesh for Jai Bolo Be-Imaan Ki

Best Playback Singer, Female

Hare Rama Hare Krishna – Asha Bhosle for Dum Maro Dum

  • Lal Patthar – Asha Bhosle for Suni Suni
  • Lalkaar – Asha Bhosle for Maine Kahan Na Na Na

Best Art Direction

Pakeezah

Best Cinematography

Seeta Aur Geeta

Best Editing

Shor

Best Sound

Amar Prem

Critics' Awards

Best Film

Maya Darpan

Best Documentary

Nine Months to Freedom

Controversy

Meena Kumari not winning an award for her performance in Pakeezah stirred controversy. Filmfare, however, defended their decision by stating according to their rules, posthumous awards are not allowed; Filmfare's editor B. K. Karanjia said both Ghulam Mohammad (the music director of Pakeezah) and Josef Wirsching (cinematographer) lost for the same reason.[3]

Biggest Winners

See also

References

  1. ↑ Reuben, Bunny (2005). ...and Pran: A Biography. HarperCollins and Living Media. pp. 265–267. ISBN 978-81-72234-66-9.
  2. ↑ Dhirad, Sandeep (2006). "Filmfare Nominees and Winner" (PDF). deep750.googlepages.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. ↑ Reuben 2005, p. 266.
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