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42nd Filmfare Awards

1997 awards for Hindi cinema

Field	Value
number	42
award	Filmfare Awards
date	23 February 1997
site	Mumbai, India
best_film	Raja Hindustani
best_critic	Khamoshi: The Musical
most_wins	Khamoshi: The Musical and Raja Hindustani (5)
most_nominations	Khamoshi: The Musical (13)
last	41st
next	43rd

The 42nd Filmfare Awards were held on 23 February 1997, in Mumbai, India.

Khamoshi: The Musical led the ceremony with 13 nominations, followed by Maachis and Raja Hindustani with 11 nominations each.

Khamoshi: The Musical and Raja Hindustani won 5 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony, with the former winning Best Film (Critics) (for Sanjay Leela Bhansali) and Best Actress (Critics) (for Manisha Koirala), and the latter winning Best Film, Best Actor (for Aamir Khan) and Best Actress (for Karisma Kapoor).

Nana Patekar received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Agni Sakshi and Khamoshi: The Musical, but lost to Aamir Khan who won the award for Raja Hindustani.

Shekhar Kapur achieved special feat in the awards. His 1994 film Bandit Queen earlier was awarded the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film in 1995. Surprisingly Kapur was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Director in this ceremony for the latter. Thus, Kapur became the only person who was awarded two different awards for the same film in different ceremonies.

Main awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().

Best Film	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress	Best Performance in a Negative Role	Best Performance in a Comic Role	Best Music Director	Best Lyricist	Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay	Best Dialogue	Best Action	Best Background Score	Best Choreography	Best Editing	Best Sound	Best Art Direction

Special awards

Best Male Debut

Best Female Debut

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award

** Dharmendra and Mumtaz **

Special Award

** Govinda, Nasir Hussain, Pran and Shobhna Samarth **

R. D. Burman Award

** Vishal Bhardwaj – Maachis **

Critics' awards

Best Film

** Khamoshi: The Musical **

Best Actress

** Manisha Koirala – Khamoshi: The Musical **

Best Documentary

** Beyond the Himalayas **

Biggest winners

Khamoshi: The Musical – 5/13
Raja Hindustani – 5/11
Maachis – 4/11
Ghatak: Lethal – 3/6
Bandit Queen – 3/5

References

https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000245/1997

References

(February 1997). "42nd Filmfare Awards: Better late than never".
(1999). "India, a Reference Annual". [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India).

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