54th Filmfare Awards

54th Filmfare Awards
Date	February 28, 2009
Site	Yash Raj Studios
Host	Imran Khan, Ranbir Kapoor
Highlights
Best Film	Jodhaa Akbar
Critics Award for Best Film	Mumbai Meri Jaan
Most awards	Jodhaa Akbar (5) Rock On!! (5)
Most nominations	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (10) Rock On!! (10)

The 54th Idea Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group and Idea Cellular, was one of India's most prestigious awards ceremony, honoring the best Bollywood films of 2008. It took place on February 28, 2009 at the Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai.^[1] Actors Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan hosted the show for the first part,^[1] while actresses Konkona Sen Sharma and Deepika Padukone hosted the show in the latter part.^[2] It was the first time that any of these actors hosted the awards ceremony. The ceremony was televised in India eight days later, on March 8, 2009.^[3]

The nominees for the various films were announced on February 16, 2009.^[4] The films Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Rock On!! led the nominations with a total of ten nominations each, followed by Jodhaa Akbar with nine nominations. Ghajini and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na had seven nominations each. Note that the nominations are for the major awards only, as there were no list of nominees for the technical and other awards.

The major award-winning film turned out to be Jodhaa Akbar and Rock On!!, both of which won five Filmfare Awards each. The former won four under the main category, including the best film, best director and best actor awards,^[2] while the latter won one in the major category. It was Arjun Rampal's first Filmfare award, as he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. Priyanka Chopra won her first Filmfare Best Actress Award in 2009 for her role in Fashion.^[2]

Awards and nominees

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
Jodhaa Akbar Dostana Ghajini Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Rock On!!	Ashutosh Gowariker – Jodhaa Akbar A R Murugadoss – Ghajini Abhishek Kapoor – Rock On!! Aditya Chopra – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Madhur Bhandarkar – Fashion Neeraj Pandey – A Wednesday
Best Actor	Best Actress
Hrithik Roshan – Jodhaa Akbar Aamir Khan – Ghajini Shah Rukh Khan – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Akshay Kumar – Singh Is Kinng Abhishek Bachchan – Dostana Naseeruddin Shah – A Wednesday	Priyanka Chopra – Fashion Aishwarya Rai – Jodhaa Akbar Anushka Sharma – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Asin Thottumkal – Ghajini Kajol – U Me Aur Hum
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Arjun Rampal – Rock On!! Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar Raj Prateik Babbar – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Sonu Sood – Jodhaa Akbar Tusshar Kapoor – Golmaal Returns Vinay Pathak – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Kangana Ranaut – Fashion Bipasha Basu – Bachna Ae Haseeno Kirron Kher – Dostana Ratna Pathak Shah – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Shahana Goswami – Rock On!!
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Farhan Akhtar – Rock On!! Imran Khan – Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na Anurag Sinha – Black and White Hurman Baweja – Love Story 2050 Nikhil Dwivedi – My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves Prateik Babbar – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Rajeev Khandelwal – Aamir Sikandar Kher – Woodstock Villa	Asin Thottumkal – Ghajini Adah Sharma – 1920 Anushka Sharma – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Mugdha Godse – Fashion Prachi Desai – Rock On!! Sonal Chauhan – Jannat
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
A R Rahman – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na A R Rahman – Ghajini A R Rahman – Jodhaa Akbar Pritam – Race Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – Rock On!! Vishal-Shekhar – Dostana	Javed Akhtar – Jashn-E-Bahara – Jodhaa Akbar Abbas Tyrewala – Kabhi Kabhi Aditi – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Gulzar – Tu Hi To Meri Dost Hain – Yuvvraj Jaideep Sahni – Haule Haule – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Javed Akhtar – Socha Hai – Rock On!! Prasoon Joshi – Guzaarish – Ghajini
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Sukhwinder Singh – Haule Haule – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Farhan Akhtar – Socha Hai – Rock On!! KK – Khuda Jaane – Bachna Ae Haseeno KK – Zara Sa – Jannat Rashid Ali – Kabhi Kabhi Aditi – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Sonu Niigaam – Inn Lamho Ke Daaman Mein – Jodhaa Akbar	Shreya Ghoshal – Teri Ore – Singh Is Kinng Alka Yagnik – Tu Muskura – Yuvvraj Neha Bhasin – Kuch Khaas Hain – Fashion Shilpa Rao – Khuda Jaane – Bachna Ae Haseeno Shruti Pathak – Marjawaan – Fashion Sunidhi Chauhan – Dance Pe Chance – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Critics' awards

Best Movie
Mumbai Meri Jaan (Nishikant Kamat)
Best Performance
Male	Female
Manjot Singh – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!	Shahana Goswami – Rock On!!

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Abhishek Kapoor – Rock On!! Aseem Arora – Heroes Dibakar Banerjee, Urmi Juvekar – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! Neeraj Pandey – A Wednesday Santosh Sivan – Tahaan	Yogendra Vinayak Joshi, Upendra Sidhaye – Mumbai Meri Jaan Abbas Tyrewala – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Abhishek Kapoor, Pubali Chaudhary – Rock On!! Ajay Monga, Anuradha Tiwari, Madhur Bhandarkar – Fashion Shiraz Ahmed – Race
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Manu Rishi – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! Abbas Tyrewala – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na K P Saxena – Jodhaa Akbar Neeraj Pandey – A Wednesday Yogesh Joshi – Mumbai Meri Jaan	Amit Pawar – Mumbai Meri Jaan
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Longines Fernandes – Pappu Can't Dance Saala! – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na	Jason West – Rock On!!
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Vandan Kataria, Monica Angelina Bhowmick – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!	Vinod Subramaniyam – Rock On!!
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Manoshi Nath, Rushi Sharma – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!	A R Rahman – Jodhaa Akbar
Best Special Effects	Best Action
John Deitz – Love Story 2050	Peter Heins – Ghajini

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement
Bhanu Athaiya	Om Puri
Special Jury Mention (certificate)
Prateik Babbar (actor) – Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na	Purab Kohli (actor) – Rock On!!
RD Burman Award
Benny Dayal
Best Scene
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Dostana Jodhaa Akbar Rock On!!

Multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple nominations. 10 nominations: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Rock On!! 9 nominations: Jodhaa Akbar 7 nominations: Ghajini, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Fashion 5 nominations: Dostana

The following films received multiple awards. 5 wins: Jodhaa Akbar and Rock On!! 3 wins: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! 2 wins: Fashion, Ghajini, Mumbai Meri Jaan and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi 1 win: Love Story 2050 and Singh Is Kinng

Awards tally

     – winner of the Filmfare Best Film Award,      – nominees for Best Film

• Note : In some cases, the number of nominations can be less than the number of awards won. This is explained by the fact that there are some awards which do not have any nominations. So, a film could have won an award which does not have any list of nominees. Also, Critics' Awards are not included in the number of awards won by the films.

Film	Awards	Nominations	Notes
A Wednesday	0	4	This was Neeraj Pandey's first feature film as a director. He was also the scriptwriter of the film, and it was his first time as scriptwriter as well.
Bachna Ae Haseeno	0	3	Bipasha Basu got her second nomination for Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, after her role in No Entry. However, she failed to win it both times. KK became only the third male playback singer to get multiple nominations in the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award, after Sonu Nigam and Udit Narayan, since 2000. Shilpa Rao debuted as a female playback singer with this film, and also received her first Filmfare Best Female Playback Award nomination for this film.
Dostana	0	5	This film was the directorial debut of Tarun Mansukhani. Dostana was only the second film which was produced by Karan Johar, but not directed by him, to get a nomination under the Filmfare Best Film Award category (after Kal Ho Na Ho). It was the second Karan Johar Production which did not win a single Filmfare Award, after Kaal.
Fashion	2	6	This film earned director Madhur Bhandarkar his second nomination under the Filmfare Best Director Award, after Page 3 in 2006. Priyanka Chopra won her first ever Filmfare Best Actress Award for this film. Simultaneously, Kangana Ranaut won her first ever Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for this film. Such a feat was last achieved in 2006, when Ayesha Kapoor and Rani Mukherji won the Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress Award respectively for Black.
Ghajini	2	7	This film saw the directorial debut of South Indian film-maker A R Murugadoss, who had also directed the Tamil version of this film. The Tamil version (also titled Ghajini) starred Surya Sivakumar. South India actress Asin Thottumkal debuted in Bollywood with this film, and won the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. Incidentally, she had also starred as the female lead in the Tamil version of this film. Thus, she became the first actress to act in the same role in two films (remakes) of two different languages.
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na	3	7	A R Rahman became only the fourth music director in the history of Filmfare to win the Filmfare Best Music Director Award three times in a row, after Shankar-Jaikishan, Laxmikant Pyarelal and Nadeem Shravan.
Jodhaa Akbar	5	9	Jodhaa Akbar was one of the major award winners, winning five Filmfare Awards, including Filmfare Best Film Award, Filmfare Best Director Award and Filmfare Best Actor Award.
Love Story 2050	1	0	Love Story 2050 was the only film which did not receive any nomination under the categories having nominations, and yet won a Filmfare Award. This was the first film of Harry Baweja to win a Filmfare Award.
Mumbai Meri Jaan	2	2	This was the Bollywood debut for director Nishikant Kamat. He had previously directed films for Marathi and Tamil cinema. It later went on to win the National Film Award for Best Special Effects, which went to Govardhan of Tata Elixis.
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!	3	2	Manu Rishi won his first ever Filmfare award for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, winning the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award. This film became the largest Filmfare Award-winning Dibakar Banerjee, ahead of Khosla Ka Ghosla, which had won one Filmfare Award. Manjot Singh received his first award ever for his critically appreciated role in the film.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	2	10	This was the debut film for actress Anushka Sharma. She was subsequently nominated for Filmfare Best Female Debut Award, but narrowly lost out to Asin. Shah Rukh Khan did not win an award for the first time under a film directed by Aditya Chopra. He had previously won for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Mohabbatein.
Rock On!!	5	10	Arjun Rampal won his first ever Filmfare Award (Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award) for his role in this film. Farhan Akhtar debuted both as a playback singer and as an actor in this film. Subsequently, he won the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award, and also received a nomination for best male playback singer. Shahana Goswami received the Filmfare Best Actress (Critics) Award, and became the first actress to achieve this honour for a supporting role.
Singh Is Kinng	1	2

See also

• List of highest-grossing Bollywood films

References

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3. "Television telecast of 54th Filmfare Awards". Dear Cinema. 2009-03-02. Archived from the original on March 5, 2009. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
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