6th Filmfare Awards

6th Filmfare Awards
Date	May 10, 1959
Site	Bombay
Host	J. C. Jain
Highlights
Best Film	Madhumati
Most awards	Madhumati (9)
Most nominations	Madhumati (11)

The 6th Filmfare Awards were held in May 10, 1959 at Bombay, honoring the best films in Hindi Cinema for the year 1958.^[1] Madhumati became the biggest winner when it received Best Film of 1958 and Best Director, both for Bimal Roy.^[2]

Dev Anand won his first Best Actor trophy for Kala Pani. Vyjayanthimala won her second Filmfare and first Best Actress trophy for Sadhna, the same year she was also nominated for Madhumati. Madhumati has the highest nomination with eleven nominations and was a record winner where the film has won nine awards altogether.^[3] Madhumati was followed by B. R. Chopra's Sadhna (1958 film)| with six nomination and two wins, incidentally both had Vyjayanthimala in the lead.

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
Madhumati – Bimal Roy Productions – Bimal Roy Sadhna – B. R. Films – B. R. Chopra Talaaq – Anupam Chitra – Mahesh Kaul, Mukhram Sharma	Bimal Roy – Madhumati B. R. Chopra – Sadhna Mahesh Kaul – Talaaq
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dev Anand – Kala Pani as Karan Mehra Dilip Kumar – Madhumati as Anand/Deven Raj Kapoor – Phir Subha Hogi as Ram Babu	Vyjayanthimala – Sadhna as Champabai / Rajani Meena Kumari – Sahara as Leela Vyjayanthimala – Madhumati as Madhumati / Madhavi / Radha
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Johnny Walker – Madhumati as Charandas Rehman – Phir Subha Hogi as Rehman Sohrab Modi – Yahudi as Ezra	Nalini Jaywant – Kala Pani as Kishori Lalita Pawar – Parvarish as Rukmini Singh Leela Chitnis – Sadhna as Mother
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Salil Chowdhury – Madhumati O. P. Nayyar – Phagun Shankar Jaikishan – Yahudi	Shailendra – "Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hain" from Yahudi Sahir Ludhianvi – "Aurat Ne Janam Diya" from Sadhna Shailendra – "Meri Jaan" from Yahudi
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Award won by a female singer	Lata Mangeshkar – "Aaja Re Pardesi" from Madhumati

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Dialogue
1959 Mukhram Sharma – Sadhna Mukhram Sharma – Talaaq Ritwik Ghatak – Madhumati	Rajinder Singh Bedi – Madhumati
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Madhumati	Dilip Gupta – Madhumati
Best Art Direction	Best Sound Design
Sudhendu Roy – Madhumati	Ishan Ghosh – Chandan

Multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple awards and nominations.

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Madhumati	9	11
Sadhna	2	6
Kala Pani	2	2
Yahudi	1	5
Chandan	1	1
Talaaq	0	3

See also

• 7th Filmfare Awards
• 5th Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

References

1. The Times Group (10 May 1959). "1961 Filmfare Awards". The Times of India. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
2. "The Winners 1958". The Times of India. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
3. "The Nominations – 1958". The Times of India. Retrieved 2012-02-22.

External links

• Winner and nomination of 6th Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database