8th Filmfare Awards

The 8th Filmfare Awards were held in Bombay to honor the best films in Hindi cinema in 1961.

8th Filmfare Awards
Date	1961
Site	Bombay
Highlights
Best Film	Mughal-e-Azam
Best Actor	Dilip Kumar for Kohinoor
Best Actress	Bina Rai for Ghunghat
Most awards	Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Mughal-e-Azam & Parakh (3)
Most nominations	Mughal-e-Azam (11)

K. Asif's magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Chaudhvin Ka Chand with 6 nominations and Parakh with 5 nominations.

Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Mughal-e-Azam and Parakh won 3 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony.

Mughal-e-Azam, considered one of the greatest and most successful films of Bollywood, was expected to steam-roll the competition, controversially went home with just 3 wins out of its 11 nominations, including Best Film, but missed out on Best Director (for K. Asif), Best Lyricist (for Shakeel Badayuni for "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya"), Best Playback Singer (for Lata Mangeshkar for "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya") and all 4 acting categories. Another glaring upset was Naushad's loss for Best Music Director for Mughal-e-Azam's epic soundtrack to Shankar–Jaikishan for Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai.

Dilip Kumar received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Kohinoor and Mughal-e-Azam, winning for the former.

Madhubala received her first and only nomination for Best Actress for her performance as Anarkali in Mughal-e-Azam, which is considered to be amongst the greatest acting performances of Indian Cinema. However, she lost the award to Bina Rai who won the award for Ghunghat, her first and only win in the category.

Main Awards

Bimal Roy, Best Director

Bina Rai, Best Actress

Motilal, Best Supporting Actor

Nanda, Best Supporting Actress

Shankar Jaikishan, Best Music Director

Mohammed Rafi, Best Playback Singer

Shakeel Badayuni, Best Lyricist

Best Film	Best Director
Mughal-e-Azam Masoom Parakh	Bimal Roy – Parakh K. Asif – Mughal-e-Azam Kishore Sahu – Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dilip Kumar – Kohinoor as Prince Dhivendra Pratap Bahadur Chandrabhan Dev Anand – Kala Bazar as Raghuvir Raj Kapoor – Chhalia as Chhalia	Bina Rai – Ghunghat as Parvati / Jamuna Madhubala – Mughal-e-Azam as Anarkali Nutan – Chhalia as Shanti
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Motilal – Parakh as Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy Agha – Ghunghat as Agha Prithviraj Kapoor – Mughal-e-Azam as Emperor Akbar Rehman – Chaudhvin Ka Chand as Pyare Mohan / Nawab Sahib	Nanda – Aanchal as Nanda Durga Khote – Mughal-e-Azam as Maharani Jodha Bai Kumkum – Kohinoor as Rajlakshmi Lalita Pawar – Aanchal as Mother
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Shankar–Jaikishan – Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai Naushad – Mughal-e-Azam Ravi – Chaudhvin Ka Chand	Shakeel Badayuni – "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" from Chaudhvin Ka Chand Shailendra – "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai" from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai Shakeel Badayuni – "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kiya" from Mughal-e-Azam
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Mohammed Rafi – "Chaudhvin Ka Chand" from Chaudhvin Ka Chand	Award won by a male singer Lata Mangeshkar – "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai" from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai Lata Mangeshkar – "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya" from Mughal-e-Azam
Best Story	Best Dialogue
Ruby Sen – Masoom Saghir Usmani – Chaudhvin Ka Chand Salil Chowdhury – Parakh	Aman, Kamal Amrohi, Wajahat Mirza, Ehsan Rizvi — Mughal-e-Azam

Technical Awards

Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Moosa Mansoor — Kohinoor	R. D. Mathur — Mughal-e-Azam
Best Art Direction	Best Sound Design
Biren Nag — Chaudhvin Ka Chand	George D'Cruz — Parakh

Superlatives

The following films had multiple wins and/or nominations

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Mughal-e-Azam	3	11
Chaudhvin Ka Chand		6
Parakh		5
Kohinoor	2	3
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai	1
Aanchal		2
Ghunghat
Masoom
Chhalia	0

See also

• 9th Filmfare Awards
• 7th Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

External links

• Winner and nomination of 9th Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database