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55th Filmfare Awards
55th Filmfare Awards
Date	27 February 2010
Site	Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai
Hosted by	Shahrukh Khan; Saif Ali Khan; Shruti Haasan; Karan Johar; Siddharth
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	3 Idiots
Critics Award; for Best Film	Firaaq
Most awards	3 Idiots & Dev.D (6)
Most nominations	Love Aaj Kal (12)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
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The 55th Filmfare Awards were held on 27 February 2010 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai, India. The awards given for 30 categories, out of which there were 3 special awards, 3 critics awards and 24 main awards for Hindi films released in 2009. There were 60 nominations for the top 10 categories, which were based on votes via web and newspaper forms.^[1] The award ceremony was hosted by Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan.

Love Aaj Kal led the ceremony with 12 nominations, followed by 3 Idiots with 11 nominations and Kaminey with 10 nominations.

3 Idiots and Dev.D won 6 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony, with the former winning Best Film, Best Director (for Rajkumar Hirani) and Best Supporting Actor (for Boman Irani), and the latter winning Best Actress (Critics) (for Mahie Gill) and Best Supporting Actress (for Kalki Koechlin).

Paa fetched Amitabh Bachchan his fifth Best Actor award, and Vidya Balan her first ever Best Actress award, for their performance as the son-mother duo of Auro and Vidya.^[2]

Kareena Kapoor received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in 3 Idiots and Kurbaan, but lost to Vidya Balan who won the award for Paa.

Awards and nominees

Rajkumar Hirani, Best Director

Vidya Balan, Best Actress

Amitabh Bachchan, Best Actor

Nandita Das, Best Director Critics

Mahi Gill, Best Actress Critics

Ranbir Kapoor, Best Actor Critics

Boman Irani, Best Supporting Actor

Kalki Koechlin, Best Supporting Actress

A. R. Rahman, Best Music Director

Irshad Kamil, Best Lyricist

Shashi Kapoor, Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Main Awards

Best Film	Best Director
3 Idiots Dev.D Kaminey Love Aaj Kal Paa Wake Up Sid	Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap – Dev.D Ayan Mukerji – Wake Up Sid Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal R. Balki – Paa Vishal Bhardwaj – Kaminey
Best Actor	Best Actress
Amitabh Bachchan – Paa as Auro Aamir Khan – 3 Idiots as Rancho Ranbir Kapoor – Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani as Prem Shankar Sharma / Statue Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Siddharth Mehra Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jaivardhan Singh Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie / Guddu Sharma	Vidya Balan – Paa as Vidya Deepika Padukone – Love Aaj Kal as Meera Pandit Kareena Kapoor – 3 Idiots as Pia Sahastrabuddhe Kareena Kapoor – Kurbaan as Avantika Ahuja Katrina Kaif – New York as Maya Shaikh Priyanka Chopra – Kaminey as Sweety Shekhar Bhope
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Boman Irani – 3 Idiots as Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe Amole Gupte – Kaminey as Sunil Shekhar Bhope 'Bhope Bhau' Neil Nitin Mukesh – New York as Omar Aijaz^[3] R. Madhavan – 3 Idiots as Farhan Qureshi Rishi Kapoor – Luck by Chance as Rommy Rolly Sharman Joshi – 3 Idiots as Raju Rastogi	Kalki Koechlin – Dev.D as Leni / Chandramukhi 'Chanda' Arundhati Nag – Paa as Pallavi Dimple Kapadia – Luck By Chance as Neena Walia Divya Dutta – Delhi-6 as Jalebi Shahana Goswami – Firaaq as Muneera Supriya Pathak – Wake Up Sid as Sarita Mehra
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
A. R. Rahman – Delhi-6 Amit Trivedi – Dev.D Pritam – Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Pritam – Love Aaj Kal Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Wake Up Sid Vishal Bhardwaj – Kaminey	Irshad Kamil – "Aaj Din Chadheya" from Love Aaj Kal Gulzar – "Dhan Te Nan" from Kaminey Gulzar – "Kaminey" from Kaminey Javed Akhtar – "Iktara" from Wake Up Sid Prasoon Joshi – "Masakali" from Delhi-6 Prasoon Joshi – "Rehna Tu" from Delhi-6
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Mohit Chauhan – "Masakali" from Delhi-6 Atif Aslam – "Tu Jaane Na" from Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Javed Ali and Kailash Kher – "Arziyan" from Delhi-6 Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – "Aaj Din Chadheya" from Love Aaj Kal Sonu Nigam and Salim Merchant – "Shukran Allah" from Kurbaan Sukhwinder Singh and Vishal Dadlani – "Dhan Te Nan" from Kaminey	Rekha Bhardwaj – "Genda Phool" from Delhi-6 (tie) Kavita Seth – "Iktara" from Wake Up Sid Alisha Chinai – "Tera Hone Laga" from Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Shilpa Rao – "Mudi Mudi" from Paa Shreya Ghoshal – "Zoobi Doobi" from 3 Idiots Sunidhi Chauhan – "Chor Bazaari" from Love Aaj Kal

Critics' awards

Best Film
Firaaq (Nandita Das)
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year	Mahi Gill – Dev.D

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Malhotra, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Sanjay Maurya – Gulaal Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal Jaideep Sahni – Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance	Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi – 3 Idiots Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal Pankaj Advani – Sankat City R. Balki – Paa Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap – Gulaal Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal Jaideep Sahni – Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari – Firaaq	Sreekar Prasad – Firaaq
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Bosco-Caesar – "Chor Bazaari" from Love Aaj Kal	Rajeev Ravi – Dev.D
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Helen Jones, Sukanta Panigrahi – Dev.D	Manas Choudhary – Firaaq
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Vaishali Menon – Firaaq	Amit Trivedi – Dev.D
Best Special Effects	Best Action
Govardhan Vigharan, Vinay Singh Chuphal – Kaminey	Vijayan Master – Wanted

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement
Shashi Kapoor	Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
Best Debut Director
Male	Female
Ayan Mukerji – Wake Up Sid	Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance
RD Burman Award
Amit Trivedi – Dev.D
Special Award
Nandita Das – Firaaq

References

^ 55th Idea Filmfare Awards Nominations
^ "Paa - Movie". Bollywood Hungama. 1 January 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
^ "55th Filmfare Awards 2010 Winners". 27 February 2010.

External links

Filmfare awards

[1] 55th Idea Filmfare Awards Nominations

[Paa-Movie-2] "Paa - Movie". Bollywood Hungama. 1 January 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2012.

[3] "55th Filmfare Awards 2010 Winners". 27 February 2010.

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