Mumbai: Vikas Bahl’s coming-of-age drama Queen triumphed at the 60th Filmfare Awards, winning in key categories including best film, best director and best actress for its lead star Kangana Ranaut on January 31.
The film bagged six honours in all including best editing to Abhijit Kokate and Anurag Kashyap, best cinematography (Bobby Singh and Siddharth Diwan) and best background score for Amit Trivedi.
Kangana, who saw competition from Alia Bhatt, Madhuri Dixit, Priyanka Chopra, Rani Mukerji and Sonam Kapoor in the best actress category, was not present to accept her award.
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespearean tale Haider closely followed Queen with five wins, which includes a black lady for Shahid Kapoor in the best actor category and best supporting honours for Tabu and Kay Kay Menon.
Haider triumphed in the technical categories as well, with Dolly Ahluwalia winning best costume designer and Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray topping the best production design list.
The lifetime achievement award was given to veteran actress Kamini Kaushal for her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
Young star Alia Bhatt bagged the best actress (Critics) trophy for Highway and Sanjay Mishra won the best actor (Critics) for his outstanding performance in Ankhon Dekhi, which also earned director-writer Rajat Kapoor the best story gong.
Kriti Sanon won best debut female award for Heropanti, while Pakistani heart-throb Fawad Khan won the best debut male award for Khoobsurat.
Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi won for PK in the best screenplay and best dialogue categories, which were the only wins for the Aamir Khan-starrer film.
In the music categories, Ankit Tiwari won best male playback singer for Galiyaan from Ek Villain and Kanika Kapoor was named best female playback singer for Baby Doll from Ragini MMS 2.
Trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy won best music director for their work in 2 States. Best lyrics honour went to Rashmi Singh for Muskurane from CityLights.
Anil Kumar Konakandla and Prabal Pradhan won the best sound design honour for Mardaani. Sham Kaushal won an award for best action in Gunday. Best choreography honour was handed out to Ahmed Khan for the song Jumme Ki Raat from Salman Khan’s Kick.
The evening saw performances from Salman Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, and was attended by B-Town celebrities such as Rekha, Kajol, Manisha Koirala, Neha Dhupia, Subhash Ghai, and Vidya Balan among others.
The ceremony, held at Yash Raj Studios, was hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar and stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma.
