Filmfare Best Villain Award

The Filmfare Best Villain Award was given by ''Filmfare'' as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise an actor who had delivered an outstanding performance in a negative role. Although the awards started in 1954, this category was first introduced in 1992 and has not been awarded since 2007.

Superlatives

As the award was instituted in 1991, it could not be given to some of the famous Bollywood villains of the preceding decades:
* Amjad Khan for his role of Gabbar Singh in ''Sholay'' (1975), although he was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category.
* Amrish Puri for his role of Mogambo in '' Mr. India'' (1987), although he was nominated 7 times once the category was instituted. Unfortunately, he never won.
* Actors like Pran, Prem Chopra, Jeevan, Ajit, Ranjeet and Kulbhushan, who were known for their portrayal of negative roles in the '70s and '80s.

Ashutosh Rana is the only actor to have won the award twice in a row, in 1998 and 1999. Amrish Puri was nominated consecutively for 3 years from 1991 to 1993. Also, Danny Denzongpa is the only actor to have been nominated twice in the same year in 1994, although he failed to win.

Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra are the only actors to have been nominated in another acting category along with the Best Villain category for the same role. Abhishek Bachchan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor as well for '' Yuva''. Priyanka Chopra was nominated also for Best Supporting Actress for ''Aitraaz''.

In 1997, Kajol became the first female actor to be nominated in this category and win the award for her role in ''Gupt''. She and Priyanka Chopra (for Aitraaz) are the only female actors who won this award. Other actresses to have been nominated are Urmila Matondkar for ''Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya'' in 2001, Shabana Azmi for ''Makdee'' in 2002, Bipasha Basu for '' Jism'' in 2003, Preity Zinta for '' Armaan'' in 2003 and Amrita Singh for '' Kalyug'' in 2005.

Preity Zinta for '' Armaan'' in 2003 is the only actor to be nominated for Best Actress as well as this award in the same year.

Multiple nominations

The following 16 actors have received multiple Best Villain nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).

Winners and nominees

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. The films are listed by the years when the award was presented.

1990s

* 1992 Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Maharani – ''Sadak''
** Amrish Puri as Chuniya Chand Chaukhan a.k.a. Chuniya Mama – '' Saudagar''
** Danny Dengzongpa as Bhaktawar – '' Hum''
** Om Puri as Suraj Narayan Singh a.k.a. Baapji – ''Narsimha''
** Raza Murad as Daroga Shahbaz Khan – ''Henna''
* 1993 Nana Patekar as Majid Khan – '' Angaar''
** Amrish Puri as General Dong – ''Tahalka''
** Kiran Kumar as Pasha – ''Khuda Gawah''
* 1994 Paresh Rawal as Velji – ''Sir''
** Amrish Puri as Barrister Indrajit Chaddha – ''Damini''
** Gulshan Grover as Chhappan Tikli a.k.a. Jimmy – ''Sir''
** Raj Babbar as Jagannath Tripathi – ''Dalaal''
** Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul Mehra – ''Darr''
* 1995 Shah Rukh Khan as Vijay Agnihotri – ''Anjaam''
** Danny Denzongpa as Chatur Singh Chitah – ''Krantiveer''
** Danny Denzongpa as Dilawar Singh – ''Vijaypath''
** Naseeruddin Shah as Mr.Jindal – ''Mohra''
* 1996 Mithun Chakraborty as Amavas a.k.a. Vijay Bahadur Kunwar / Police Inspector Kranti Kumar (Double Role) – '' Jallaad''
** Amrish Puri as Durjan Singh – ''Karan Arjun''
** Ashish Vidyarthi as Commander Bhadra – ''Drohkaal''
** Danny Denzongpa as ACP Negi – '' Barsaat''
** Mohan Agashe as Kooka – ''Trimurti''
* 1997 Arbaaz Khan as Vikram – '' Daraar''
** Ashish Vidyarthi as Ramanbhai – ''Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin''
** Danny Denzongpa as Katya – '' Ghatak''
** Milind Gunaji as Inspector Indrajeet Saxena – '' Fareb''
** Naseeruddin Shah as Ajay Narang – '' Chaahat''
* 1998 Kajol as Isha Diwan – ''Gupt''
** Aditya Pancholi as Siddharth Chaudhary – '' Yes Boss''
** Amrish Puri as Raja Sahab – ''Koyla''
** Milind Gunaji as Bali Thakur – '' Virasat''
** Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Ranjit Rai – ''Ishq''
* 1999 Ashutosh Rana as Gokul Pandit – '' Dushman''
** Govind Namdeo as Thakurdas Jhawle aka 'Bhau'– ''Satya''
** Mukesh Tiwari as Jageera – '' China Gate''
** Shah Rukh Khan as Manu Dada – '' Duplicate''
** Sharat Saxena as Raunak "Ronnie" Singh – ''Ghulam''

2000s

* 2000 Ashutosh Rana as Lajja Shankar Pandey – '' Sangharsh''
** Amrish Puri as Surya Singh Thapar – '' Baadshah''
** Naseeruddin Shah as Gulfam Hassan – ''Sarfarosh''
** Rahul Bose as Sunny – ''Thakshak''
** Sayaji Shinde as Bacchu "Bhaiyyaji" Yadav – '' Shool''
* 2001 Sunil Shetty as Dev Ranjan Chopra – '' Dhadkan''
** Govinda as Om Srivastav/Mahendra Pratap Singhania – '' Shikari''
** Jackie Shroff as Hilal Kohistani – ''Mission Kashmir''
** Rahul Dev as Naseer Ahmed – ''Champion''
** Sharad Kapoor as Prakash Sharma – '' Josh''
* 2002 Akshay Kumar as Vikram Bajaj (Vicky) – '' Ajnabee''
** Aftab Shivdasani as Shekhar Saxena – ''Kasoor''
** Amrish Puri as Mayor Ashraf Ali – '' Gadar: Ek Prem Katha''
** Manoj Bajpai as Raghavan Ghatge – '' Aks''
** Urmila Matondkar as Ria Jaiswal – ''Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya''
* 2003 Ajay Devgn as Tarang / Ranjeet Bharadwaj – '' Deewangee''
** Akshaye Khanna as Karan Malhotra – ''Humraaz''
** Manoj Bajpai as Babu – ''Road''
** Nana Patekar as Narsimha – '' Shakti: The Power''
** Shabana Azmi as Makdee – ''Makdee''
* 2004 Irfan Khan as Ranvijay Singh – '' Haasil''
** Bipasha Basu as Sonia Khanna – '' Jism''
** Feroz Khan as Saba Karim Shah – '' Janasheen''
** Preity Zinta as Sonia Sinha – '' Armaan''
** Yashpal Sharma as Sunder Yadav – ''Gangaajal''
* 2005 Priyanka Chopra as Sonia Roy – ''Aitraaz''
**Abhishek Bachchan as Lallan Singh – '' Yuva''
**Ajay Devgn as Yashwant Angre – ''Khakee''
** John Abraham as Kabir – ''Dhoom''
**Sunil Shetty as Raghavan Singh Dutta – ''Main Hoon Na''
* 2006 Nana Patekar as Tabrez Alam – ''Apaharan''
**Ajay Devgn as Kaali Pratap Singh – '' Kaal''
** Amrita Singh as Simi Roy – '' Kalyug''
** Kay Kay Menon as Vishnu Nagre – '' Sarkar''
** Pankaj Kapoor as Himmat Mehndi / Jambwal – ''Dus''
* 2007 Saif Ali Khan as Ishwar "Langda" Tyagi – '' Omkara''
** Boman Irani as Lucky Singh – ''Lage Raho Munna Bhai''
** Emraan Hashmi as Akash – ''Gangster''
** John Abraham as Rohit Chopra – '' Zinda''
** Naseeruddin Shah as Dr. Siddhant Arya – ''Krrish''

See also

* Filmfare Awards
* Bollywood
* Cinema of India

References

*Nasreen Munni Kabir's book ''Bollywood'', Channel 4 Books 2001, for a whole chapter on villains and vamps.

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