| 2nd Filmfare Awards East | |
|---|---|
| Date | 25 February 2017 |
| Site | Science City, Kolkata |
| Hosted by | Abir Chatterjee Jisshu Sengupta |
| Official website | Filmfare Awards East 2017 |
| Highlights | |
| Best Film | Cinemawala |
| Best Director | Kaushik Ganguly for Cinemawala |
| Best Actor | Prosenjit Chatterjee for Shankhachil |
| Best Actress | Swastika Mukherjee for Shaheb Bibi Golaam |
| Best Critic | Cholai |
| Most awards | Shaheb Bibi Golaam (6) |
| Most nominations | Shaheb Bibi Golaam (12) |
| Television coverage | |
| Network | Colors Tv Bangla |
2nd Filmfare Awards East ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Bengali language Indian films of 2016.
Shaheb Bibi Golaam led the ceremony with twelve nominations, and was the most awarded film at the ceremony, with six wins including Best Actress (for Swastika Mukherjee) and Best Supporting Actor (for Ritwick Chakraborty). It was followed by Praktan and Cinemawala, with ten and eight nominations respectively. For the former, Rituparna Sengupta won Best Actress Critics' (with additional four wins), while Paran Bandopadhyay won Best Actor Critics' for the latter.
Jisshu Sengupta received dual nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, but won neither of them.