8th Filmfare Awards

8th Filmfare Awards
Date	1961
Site	Bombay
Highlights
Best Film	Mughal-e-Azam

The 8th Filmfare Awards were held in Bombay to honor the best films in Hindi cinema in 1961. K. Asif's magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam was the predictable winner for Best Film. However, there was some controversy as the film did not win many major awards. It was expected to steam-roll the competition.

One glaring upset was music director Naushad's loss for Mughal-e-Azam's epic soundtrack.^[1]

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
*Mughal-e-Azam* Masoom Parakh	*Bimal Roy - Parakh* K. Asif - Mughal-e-Azam Kishore Sahu - Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Dilip Kumar - Kohinoor* Dev Anand - Kala Bazar Raj Kapoor - Chhalia	*Bina Rai - Ghunghat* Nutan - Chhalia Madhubala - Mughal-e-Azam
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Motilal - Parakh as Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy Rehman - Chaudhvin Ka Chand as Pyare Mohan / Nawab Sahib Agha - Ghunghat as Agha	Nanda - Anchal as Nanda Lalita Pawar - Aanchal as Mother Kumkum - Kohinoor as Rajlakshmi
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Shankar Jaikishan - Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai Ravi - Chaudhvin Ka Chand Naushad - Mughal-e-Azam	Shakeel Badayuni - "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" from Chaudhvin Ka Chand Shakeel Badayuni – "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya" from Mughal-e-Azam Shailendra - "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai" from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
Best Playback Singer - Male	Best Playback Singer - Female
'Mohammed Rafi - "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" from Chaudhvin Ka Chand Lata Mangeshkar - "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya" from Mughal-e-Azam Lata Mangeshkar - "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai" from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai	Award won by a male singer

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Dialogue
Ruby Sen – Masoom Saghir Usmani – Chaudhvin Ka Chand Salil Chowdhury – Parakh	Aman, Kamal Amrohi, Wajahat Mirza, Ehsan Rizvi — Mughal E Azam
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Moosa Mansoor — Kohinoor	R.D. Mathur — Mughal-e-Azam
Best Art Direction	Best Sound Design
Biren Nag — Chaudhvin Ka Chand	George D'Cruz — Parakh

Multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple awards and nominations.

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Mughal-e-Azam	3	8
Chaudhvin Ka Chand	3	6
Parakh	3	5
Kohinoor	3	3
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai	1	3

References

↑ The Illustrated Weekly of India. October 1988. p. 53.

External links

Winner and nomination of 9th Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database

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