I was searching through the list of filmfare winners through out the passing years and found the list in bollywood hungama article

I always wondered if filmfare awards have been received by the musicians who duly deserved and after reading out the list, I am now confirmed that filmfare has been very unfair to many musicians..

Filmfare Awards Facts

Music Directors

Best Music director was the only category in the Music genre that started with the birth of Filmfare Awards in 1953.

The top five Music Directors on the basis of number of times they have won the award are:

* Shankar-Jaikishen - 9
* Laxmikant-Pyarelal - 7
* A.R. Rehman - 5
* Nadeem-Shravan - 4
* R.D.Burman - 3

Shankar-Jaikishen (1970,1971,1972), Laxmikant Pyarelal (1977,1978,1979) and Nadeem Shravan (1990,1991,1992) are the only music directors to have made a hattrick in winning the Best Music Director award.

Salil Chowdhary (Madhumati) is the only music director to have 100% winning and nomination ratio. He has been nominated just once and has won.

Madan Mohan never won a Filmfare award inspite of being nominated thrice, so is the case with Viju Shah who has been nominated for four times.

SD Burman has received filmfare award for Abhimaan and Taxi Driver though he was nominated for 5 other films

Naushad has received filmfare for just Baiju Bawra..

During the time of Nadeem Shravan, there were not much competitions and so the duo dominated the music industry.. But its really surprising that Madan Mohan never received any award..

Best Playback Singers

Awards for playback singing also started in 1958 and would you believe that for 9 years (1958-1966) there was no separate award for male and female singers.

Salma Agha is the only Pakistani singer to win Best Female Playback in the history of the awards.

Filmfare award for female playback has been shared only twice.

Alka Yagnik and Ila Arun (Khalnayak) in 1993
Shreya Ghoshal and Kavita Krishnamurty (Devdas) in 2002

The only female singers who have 100% nomination to winning ratio are Shreya Ghoshal and Jaspinder Narula. The former has been nominated and awarded twice and latter once.

The top five Female Playback singers on the basis of number of times they have won are:

* Asha Bhosle - 7
* Alka Yagnik - 6
* Lata Mangeshkar - 4
* Kavita Krishnamurty - 4
* Anuradha Pudwal - 4

Another surprise package - Anuradha Paudwal and the melody queen Lata Mangeskar has received equal number of awards..

Is this statistics an end to the debate of who is better - Lata or Asha?? If we go by filmfare, then Asha is far much better singer than Lata.. But how fair is the filmfare - that we need to decided..

The top five Male Playback singers on the basis of the number of times they have won are:

* Kishore Kumar -8
* Mohd. Rafi- 6
* Kumar Sanu- 5
* Udit Naryan - 5
* Mukesh - 4

Kumar Sanu has won Filmfare award for best male playback singer for 5 years consecutively.

The hattrick stars of Best Playback Male are Kishore Kumar (1982-1985) and Kumar Sanu (1990-1994).

Manna Dey has received only one filmfare award for ae bhai zara dekh ke chalo.. Rafi has said once - “You listen to my songs and I listen to Manna Dey songs”.. A singer like him has never received his due credit when it comes to filmfare while a copycat like Kumar Sanu gets 5 awards..

The artistes to have achieved a rare feat of having all the nominations to their credit in a particular year are as follows:

Mohammed Rafi - Best Male Playback (1968)
Asha Bhosle - Best Female Playback (1972)
Kishore Kumar - Best Male Playback (1984)
Alka Yagnik - Best Female Playback (1993)
Javed Akhtar - Best Lyricist (2004)

Shreya Ghoshal is the youngest singer to have won Best Female Playback award at the age of 18.

Prodigy Sunidhi Chauhan has not won a Filmfare award as yet inspite of being nominated twice. So has singer KK who has never won but has been nominated twice.

These are the facts about filmfare.. Why, music industry - when we consider the categories of actors/actresses, filmfare has been unfair many of them.. Filmfare is considered to be a dream award for many in the industry, but have they been fair to them??

Anu, my reading of FF awards has always been that they award what is "in demand" and "popular". These awards are not measure of talent at all. Getting FF award confirms "Stardom". There is no award, be it FF or any other that salutes talent.

I was reading the FF history somewhere and they said that once upon a time, FF started awarding the "Art movies" and the attendance in the award function fell fairly. All the star attraction was gone. So they decided to stick to their popular format of awarding the one who is popular, no matter how talented he/she is.

Are you sure Sunidhi didn't get any FF? not even for Chameli?

Sholay, the biggest blockbuster in the histroy of Indian Cinema won ONE FF award... for Editing.

Hmm thats interesting.. Frankly speaking, I always wondered what is in the movie that it became a blockbuster.. I dont like the music as well.. Maybe there was too much hype for the movie

Ironically, Sholay won a special Filmfare award called "Best Film of 50 Years" .. Was that in 2007 or 2008? Zee keeps re-running these award ceremonies... the date gets confusing.

Agree on the music.. I dont have a single Sholay song, in my 60+gig collection. I do enjoy the movie though... even reruns.

IMHO "Hum Aapke Hain Kaun" was a dud .. I havent watched it fully even once.. and this one got away with 4 FF awards including one spl one for "didi tera dewar" one of the three most hated Lata songs in my list .. others are "kabootar ja ja ja" and "nindiya se jaagi bahaar..." (Jackie film 'hero')

Ah HAHK was my all time fav movie as that was the first movie I remember watching in theaters.. I watched thrice including the unabridged version of the film.. But now when I look back, I find it crazy to have watched the movie again and again But whatever, I can watch it for Madhuri how many ever times possible.. She is fab with her smile, though this is not her best movie..

Regarding the music of HAHK, they are not extremely good, but not bad as well.. Lata lost her charm in the voice by then and it sounds quite old..

Now tell what was there in this movie that it became a super duper hit. OSO became a super hit why?? We have no reason for these hits.

So excellent is this award that RDB got his first Filmfare for none other than Sanam Teri Kasam in 1983 and not for any of his out of the world compositions done earlier.

There are so many movies that became a hit and we all saw it and now we ask ourselves "What the hell was that"

I remember watching the movie Soldier , Priety Zinta debu movie and it sucked....still it was a HIT and Karishma's debu movie Prem Quadi was horrendous . But we watched it on big screen

The only movie that is a hit and I still enjoy is Munna Bhai MBBBS and Lage Raho....and I think the feeling won't change....