Filmfare Awards trivia

Posted by Simranjeet @ 7:42 pm February 24, 2008
Filed Under Actresses, Filmfare, Hall of Fame, Trivia

Tadka trivia

Yesterday we told you about how Hrithik Roshan’s first nomination at the Filmfare Awards was a double whammy. And his favourite co-star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan also did something similar, but not with the same results.

Aishwarya Rai has won three Filmfare Awards till now:
Best Actress - Jeans, Tamil, 1998 (Filmfare Best Actress Award South)
Best Actress - Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, 1999
Best Actress - Devdas, 2002

In 2000, she was nominated in the same category for both Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), and Subhash Ghai’s Taal (1999), the two movies which gave her career a great leap and stamped her arrival. Aishwarya arrived at the 45th Filmfare Awards- 2000, sporting large goggles and a plaster in left hand, which left tongues wagging and claiming that she was beaten by ex-lover Salman Khan, a reason she was hiding her blackened eyes, and also that she was pushed by him down the stairs, a reason for her plaster. Her only reply was - “I am a former Miss World. Do people expect me to bear all this?”. After being presented the award by Sridevi, she posed for photographers, wearing a million dollar smile, along with a vindicated Sanjay Dutt, who won the Best Actor award for Vaastav.

Later, in the year 2001, she was nominated in the Best Actor In A Lead Role Female category, for her work as a rape victim in Satish Kaushik’s Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai, (2000) and in the Best Supporting Actor Female category for her work as a ghost lover of Shah Rukh Khan in Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein (2000). This year she lost to Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met), pitted against her, for her strong-willed-wife role in Mani Ratnam’s Guru.

7 days to go… don’t miss the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards-2008, on Sony Entertainment Television, 2nd March, 8:00 p.m.