The 41st Filmfare Awards were held in 1996.

41st Filmfare Awards
DateMarch 1996[1]
Highlights
Best FilmDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Bombay
Most awardsDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (10)
Most nominationsDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Rangeela (14)

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, considered one of the most successful films of Bollywood, and Rangeela led the ceremony with 14 nominations each, followed by Karan Arjun with 10 nominations.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge won 10 awards – a record at the time – including Best Film, Best Director (Aditya Chopra), Best Actor (Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (Kajol) and Best Supporting Actress (Farida Jalal), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Other films winning multiple awards included Rangeela with 7, Barsaat with 4 and Karan Arjun with 2 awards.

Madhuri Dixit received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Raja and Yaraana, but lost to Kajol who won the award for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

Kajol won her first of a record-setting five awards for Best Actress for her performance in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

A. R. Rahman won his first Best Music Director award at Filmfare for his first Hindi film Rangeela.

Main awards

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Aditya Chopra — Best Director winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
 
Shah Rukh Khan — Best Actor winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
 
Kajol — Best Actress winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
 
Mani Ratnam — Best Director Critics winner for Bombay
 
Manisha Koirala — Best Actress Critics winner for Bombay
 
Jackie Shroff — Best Supporting Actor winner for Rangeela
 
Farida Jalal — Best Supporting Actress winner for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
 
Ashok Kumar — Lifetime Achievement Awardee
 
Vyjayanthimala — Lifetime Achievement Awardee
 
Sunil Dutt — Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Best Film Best Director

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Aditya ChopraDilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Actor Best Actress

Shah Rukh KhanDilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

KajolDilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress

Jackie ShroffRangeela

Farida JalalDilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Performance in a Negative Role Best Performance in a Comic Role

Mithun ChakrabortyJallad

Anupam KherDilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Best Music Director Best Lyricist

RangeelaA. R. Rahman

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le JayengeAnand Bakshi for Tujhe Dekha To

Best Male Playback Singer Best Female Playback Singer

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le JayengeUdit Narayan for Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna

YaraanaKavita Krishnamurthy for Mera Piya Ghar Aaya

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Technical Awards

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Best Story Best Screenplay

RangeelaRam Gopal Verma

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le JayengeAditya Chopra

Best Dialogue Best Action

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le JayengeAditya Chopra and Javed Siddiqui

Karan ArjunBhiku Varma

Best Editing Best Sound

Karan ArjunSanjay Verma

Barsaat – Rakesh Ranjan

Best Cinematography Best Choreography

BarsaatSantosh Sivan

RangeelaAhmed Khan for Rangeela Re

Best Costume Design Best Art Direction

RangeelaManish Malhotra

Prem – Bijon Dasgupta

Special awards

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Best Male Debut

Bobby DeolBarsaat

Best Female Debut

Twinkle KhannaBarsaat

R. D. Burman Award

Mehboob

Special Award

Asha Bhosle 'for the song "Tanha Tanha" in Rangeela. Long back, she stopped accepting nominations for Best Female Playback Singer, so Filmfare awarded her the Special Award for her rendition.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Ashok Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt

Critics' awards

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Best Film

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Bombay

Best Actress

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Manisha KoiralaBombay

Best Documentary

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A Narmada Diary

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The day we were". Filmfare. The Times Group. January 1997. Archived from the original on 4 February 1997. Retrieved 23 November 2020.