40th Filmfare Awards

40th Filmfare Awards
Date25 February 1995[1]
Highlights
Best FilmHum Aapke Hain Koun..!
Bandit Queen
Most awards1942: A Love Story (9)
Most nominations1942: A Love Story & Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (13)

The 40th Filmfare Awards were held on 25 February 1995.

1942: A Love Story and Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, which is one of the most successful films of Bollywood, led the ceremony with 13 nominations each, followed by Mohra with 9 nominations and Krantiveer with 7 nominations.[2]

1942: A Love Story won 9 awards, including Best Supporting Actor (for Jackie Shroff) and Best Music Director (a posthumous win for R. D. Burman), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! was the runner-up of the ceremony with 5 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Barjatya), Best Actress (Dixit) and Special Award (Lata Mangeshkar for "Didi Tera Devar Deewana").

Madhuri Dixit received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Anjaam and Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, winning for the latter.

  1. ^ "A Dream Come True". Filmfare. April 1995. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Filmfare Award 2018 Winners". List of Filmfare Award Winners. Retrieved 25 February 2020.