51st Filmfare Awards
Date	25 February 2006
Site	Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai
Hosted by	Javed Jaffrey
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	Black
Critics Award for Best Film	Black
Most awards	Black (11)
Most nominations	Parineeta (13)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
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The 51st Filmfare Awards took place on 25 February 2006 at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai. The show was hosted by Javed Jaffrey.

Parineeta led the ceremony with 13 nominations, followed by Black with 11 nominations.

Black received 11 awards at the ceremony – tying the record set by Bhansali's previous directorial Devdas (2002) – including Best Film, Best Film (Critics), Best Director (Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Best Actor, Best Actor (Critics) (both for Amitabh Bachchan), Best Actress, Best Actress (Critics) (both for Rani Mukherji) and Best Supporting Actress (Ayesha Kapur, thus becoming the youngest nominee and eventual winner of an acting Filmfare Award).^[1]^[2]

Amitabh Bachchan received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Black and Sarkar, winning for the former.

Rani Mukerji also received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Black and Bunty Aur Babli, winning for the former.

Bachchan and Mukherji set an unmatched record, becoming the only actors to win both popular and critics acting awards in the same year for the same film, winning both sets of awards for Black.

Winners and Nominees

Main awards

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Best Director Popular & Critics

Rani Mukerji, Best Actress Popular & Critics

Amitabh Bachchan, Best Actor Popular & Critics

Ayesha Kapur, Best Supporting Actress

Abhishek Bachchan, Best Supporting Actor

Alisha Chinai, Best Female Playback Singer

Himesh Reshammiya, Best Male Playback Singer

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Best Music Director

Gulzar, Best Lyricist

Shabana Azmi, Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Best Film	Best Director
Black – Applause Entertainment and SLB Films Bunty Aur Babli – Yash Raj Films No Entry – Sahara One Motion Pictures and SK Film Entertainment Page 3 – Sahara One Motion Pictures and Lighthouse Films Pvt. Ltd. Parineeta – Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Black Madhur Bhandarkar – Page 3 Nagesh Kukunoor – Iqbal Pradeep Sarkar – Parineeta Ram Gopal Verma – Sarkar
Best Actor	Best Actress
Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai Aamir Khan – Mangal Pandey: The Rising as Mangal Pandey Amitabh Bachchan – Sarkar as Subhash Nagre (Sarkar) Abhishek Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as Bunty (Rakesh Trivedi) Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Roy	Rani Mukerji – Black as Michelle McNally Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste as Ambar "Amby" Malhotra Rani Mukerji – Bunty Aur Babli as Babli (Vimmi Saluja) Sharmila Tagore – Viruddh as Sumitra Patwardhan Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita Roy
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar* as Shankar Nagre** Amitabh Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as DCP Dashrath Singh Arshad Warsi – Salaam Namaste as Ranjan "Ron" Mathur Naseeruddin Shah – Iqbal as Mohit Mishra Sanjay Dutt – Parineeta as Girish Sharma	*Ayesha Kapur – Black* as Young Michelle McNally** Bipasha Basu – No Entry as Bobby Saluja Sandhya Mridul – Page 3 as Pearl Sequeira Shefali Shah – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Sumitra Thakur Shweta Prasad – Iqbal as Khadija
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Shiney Ahuja – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi	Vidya Balan – Parineeta
Best Villain	Best Comedian
*Nana Patekar – Apaharan* as Tabrez Alam** Ajay Devgan – Kaal as Kaali Pratap Singh Amrita Singh – Kalyug as Simi Roy Kay Kay Menon – Sarkar as Vishnu Nagre Pankaj Kapoor – Dus as Himmat Mehndi / JD / Jamwal	Akshay Kumar – Garam Masala as Makrand "Mac" Deendayal Chatpatiya Anil Kapoor – No Entry as Kishan Singhania Javed Jaffrey – Salaam Namaste as Jaggu Yadav aka Crocodile Dundee Rajpal Yadav – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Laxman Singh Salman Khan – No Entry as Prem Khanna
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Bunty Aur Babli Adnan Sami – Lucky: No Time for Love Himesh Reshammiya – Aashiq Banaya Aapne Shantanu Moitra – Parineeta Vishal–Shekhar – Dus	Gulzar – "Kajra Re" from Bunty Aur Babli Gulzar – "Chup Chup Ke" from Bunty Aur Babli Gulzar – "Dheere Jalna" from Paheli Sameer – "Aashiq Banaya Aapne" from Aashiq Banaya Aapne Swanand Kirkire – "Piyu Bole" from Parineeta
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Himesh Reshamiya – "Aashiq Banaya Aapne" from Aashiq Banaya Aapne Atif Aslam – "Woh Lamhe" from Zeher Shaan and KK – "Dus Bahane" from Dus Sonu Nigam – "Piyu Bole" from Parineeta Sonu Nigam – "Dheere Jalna" from Paheli	Alisha Chinai – "Kajra Re" from Bunty Aur Babli Shreya Ghoshal – "Agar Tum Mil Jao" from Zeher Shreya Ghoshal – "Piyu Bole" from Parineeta Sunidhi Chauhan – "Kaisi Paheli" from Parineeta Sunidhi Chauhan – "Deedar De" from Dus

Critics' awards

Best Film
Black (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Best Performance
Best Actor	Best Actress
Amitabh Bachchan – Black	Rani Mukerji – Black

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi	Nina Arora, Manoj Tyagi – Page 3
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Prakash Jha – Apharan	Bela Sehgal – Black
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Howard Rosemeyer – "Kaisi Paheli" from Parineeta	Ravi K. Chandran – Black
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar and Pradeep Sarkar – Parineeta	Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Parineeta
Best Action	Best Background Score
Allan Amin – Dus	Monty Sharma – Black

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Shabana Azmi
R. D. Burman Award
Shantanu Moitra
Power Award
Yash Chopra	Aditya Chopra

References

^ "Filmfare Awards Winners 2006: Complete list of winners of Filmfare Awards 2006". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
^ "Filmfare Awards Winners From 1953 to 2019". filmfare.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

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