50th Filmfare Awards

50th Filmfare Awards
Date	26 February 2005
Site	MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai
Host	Saif Ali Khan
Highlights
Best Film	Veer-Zaara
Critics Award for Best Film	Dev and Yuva
Most awards	Veer-Zaaraand Yuva

The 50th Filmfare Awards, honoring Cinema of India, took place on 26 February 2005 in Mumbai. This was the awards' golden jubilee year and to commemorate the occasion, this year the award trophy (The Black Lady statue) was made in gold. Moreover, a special award: Best Film in 50 Years was also presented to Ramesh Sippy's Sholay.

Main awards

Best Film

Veer-Zaara

• Dhoom
• Hum Tum
• Main Hoon Na
• Swades

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Shah Rukh Khan - Swades as Mohan Bhargava

• Amitabh Bachchan - Khakee as DCP Anand K Shrivashtav
• Hrithik Roshan - Lakshya as Karan Shergill
• Shah Rukh Khan -Main Hoon Na as Ram Shekhar Sharma
• Shah Rukh Khan - Veer-Zaara as Veer Pratap Singh

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Rani Mukherjee in Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash

• Aishwarya Rai in Raincoat
• Priety Zinta in Veer-Zaara as Zaara Hayaat Khan
• Shilpa Shetty in Phir Milenge
• Urmila Matondkar in Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak/ Swati

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Abhishek Bachchan in Yuva as Lallan Singh

• Akshay Kumar in Khakee as Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma
• Akshay Kumar in Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sunny
• Amitabh Bachchan in Veer-Zaara as Mr.Choudhary
• Zayed Khan in Main Hoon Na as Lakshman "Lucky" Shekhar Sharma

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Rani Mukherjee in Yuva as Shashi Lal Bishwas

• Amrita Rao in Main Hoon Na as Sanjanna Bakshi
• Divya Dutta in Veer-Zaara as Shabbo
• Priyanka Chopra in Aitraaz as Sonia Roy
• Rani Mukherjee in Veer-Zaara as Saamiya Siddiqui

Best Actor in a Comic Role

Saif Ali Khan in Hum Tum as Karan

• Akshay Kumar in Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sunny
• Arshad Warsi in Hulchul
• Boman Irani in Main Hoon Na as Principal
• Paresh Rawal in Hulchul

Best Actor in a Negative Role

Priyanka Chopra in Aitraaz as Sonia Roy

• Abhishek Bachchan in Yuva as Lallan Singh
• Ajay Devgan in Khakee as Yashwant Angre
• John Abraham in Dhoom as Kabir
• Sunil Shetty in Main Hoon Na as Raghavan Dutta

Best Director

Kunal Kohli – Hum Tum

• Ashutosh Gowariker – Swades
• Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na
• Farhan Akhtar – Lakshya
• Rajkumar Santoshi – Khakee
• Yash Chopra – Veer-Zaara

Best Story

Veer-Zaara – Aditya Chopra

Best Screenplay

Yuva – Mani Ratnam

Best Dialogue

Veer-Zaara – Aditya Chopra

Best Music

Main Hoon Na – Anu Malik

• Dhoom – Pritam
• Murder – Anu Malik
• Swades – A. R. Rahman
• Veer-Zaara – Madan Mohan

Best Lyrics

Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for Tere Liye

• Main Hoon Na – Javed Akhtar for Main Hoon Na
• Swades – Javed Akhtar for Yeh Taara Woh Taara
• Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for Aisa Des Hai Mera
• Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for Main Yahaan

Best Playback Singer, Male

Murder – Kunal Ganjawala for "Bheege Hont Tere"

• Main Hoon Na – Sonu Nigam for "Main Hoon Na"
• Main Hoon Na – Sonu Nigam for "Tumse Milke"
• Swades – Udit Narayan and Master Vignesh for "Yeh Taara Woh Taara"
• Veer-Zaara – Udit Narayan for "Main Yahaan"
• Veer-Zaara – Sonu Nigam for "Do Pal"

Best Playback Singer, Female

Hum Tum – Alka Yagnik for "Hum Tum"

• Dhoom – Sunidhi Chauhan for "Dhoom Machale"
• Kyun! Ho Gaya Na... – Sadhana Sargam for "Aao Na"
• Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Alka Yagnik for "Lal Dupatta"
• Swades – Alka Yagnik for "Saawariya"

Best Action

Yuva – Vikram Dharma

Best Art Direction

Yuva – Sabu Cyril

Best Background Score

Swades – A. R. Rahman

Best Cinematography

Lakshya – Christopher Popp

Best Choreography

Lakshya – Prabhu Deva

Best Editing

Dhoom – Rameshwar S. Bhagat

Best Sound Design

Dhoom – Dwarak Warrier

Scene of the Year

Hum Tum

Best Debut, Female

Ayesha Takia – Taarzan: The Wonder Car

R.D.Burman Award

Kunal Ganjawala

Filmfare Power Award

Shahrukh Khan

Lifetime Achievement Award

Rajesh Khanna

Best Film of 50 Years

Sholay

Critics' awards

Best Film

Dev & Yuva

Best Actor

Pankaj Kapoor in Maqbool

Best Actress

Kareena Kapoor in Dev

Major winners and nominees

• Veer-Zaara – 5/15
• Yuva – 5/6
• Hum Tum – 4/6
• Dhoom – 2/6
• Swades – 2/8
• Dev - 2/0
• Main Hoon Na – 1/11
• Lakshya – 2/4
• Aitraaz – 1/2
• Murder – 1/2
• Taarzan: The Wonder Car – 1/1
• Khakee – 0/4
• Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – 0/3

See also

• Filmfare Awards
• 51st Filmfare Awards
• List of highest-grossing Bollywood films

References

• Filmfare Awards at IMDb