12th Filmfare Awards

12th Filmfare Awards
12th Filmfare Awards
Date	1965
Site	Bombay
Highlights
Best Film	Dosti
Best Actor	Dilip Kumar for Leader
Best Actress	Vyjayanthimala for Sangam
Most awards	Dosti (6)
Most nominations	Sangam (11)
	← 11th; Filmfare Awards; 13th →;

The 12th Filmfare Awards were held in 1965.

Sangam led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Dosti with 7 nominations and Shehar Aur Sapna with 4 nominations.

Dosti won 6 awards, including Best Film and Best Music Director (Laxmikant–Pyarelal), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Sangam was the runner-up of the ceremony with 4 awards, including Best Director (for Raj Kapoor) Best Actress (for Vyjayanthimala).

Main awards edit

Raj Kapoor, Best Director

Dilip Kumar, Best Actor

Vyjayanthimala, Best Actress

Nana Palsikar, Best Supporting Actor

Nirupa Roy, Best Supporting Actress

Mohammed Rafi, Best Playback Singer

Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Best Music Director

Majrooh Sultanpuri, Best Lyricist

Best Film	Best Director
Dosti – Rajshri Productions – Tarachand Barjatya Sangam – R. K. Films – Raj Kapoor Shehar Aur Sapna – Naya Sansar – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	Raj Kapoor – Sangam Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Shehar Aur Sapna Satyen Bose – Dosti
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dilip Kumar – Leader as Vijay Khanna Raj Kapoor – Sangam as Flight Lt. Sundar Khanna Rajendra Kumar – Ayee Milan Ki Bela as Shyam	Vyjayanthimala – Sangam as Radha Mehra^[1] Mala Sinha – Jahan Ara as Jahanara Begum Sadhana Shivdasani – Woh Kaun Thi? as Sandhya / Sandhya's twin sister^[2]
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Nana Palsikar – Shehar Aur Sapna as Johnny Dharmendra – Ayee Milan Ki Bela as Ranjit Rajendra Kumar – Sangam as Mag. Gopal Verma	Nirupa Roy – Shehnai as Shobha Lalita Pawar – Kohra as Dai Maa Shashikala – Ayee Milan Ki Bela as Roopa
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Laxmikant–Pyarelal – Dosti Madan Mohan – Woh Kaun Thi? Shankar–Jaikishan – Sangam	Majrooh Sultanpuri – "Chahunga Main Tujhe" from Dosti Shailendra – "Dost Dost Naa Raha" from Sangam Bharat Vyas – "Jyot Se Jyot" from Sant Gyaneshwar
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Mohammed Rafi – "Chahunga Main Tujhe" from Dosti Mukesh – "Dost Dost Naa Raha" from Sangam	Award won by a male singer Lata Mangeshkar – "Jyot Se Jyot" from Sant Gyaneshwar
Best Story	Best Dialogue
Ban Bhatt – Dosti Inder Raj Anand – Sangam Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Shehar Aur Sapna	Govind Moonis – Dosti

Technical Awards edit

Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
G. L. Yadav and T. K. Desai – Kohra (for B/W) Sant Singh – Jahan Ara (for Color)	K. H. Kapadia – Woh Kaun Thi? (for B/W) Krishnarao Vashirde – Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne (for Color)
Best Editing	Best Sound Design
Raj Kapoor – Sangam	Allauddin – Sangam

Superlatives edit

The following films had multiple wins and/or nominations

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Dosti	6	7
Sangam	4	11
Shehar Aur Sapna	1	4
Woh Kaun Thi?		3
Jahan Ara		2
Kohra		2
Ayee Milan Ki Bela	0	3
Sant Gyaneshwar	0	2

References edit

^ "Winners list". 2023.
^ "The Filmfare Awards Nominations – 1964". The Times Group. Archived from the original on 23 March 2004.

https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000245/1965/

[filmfare-1] "Winners list". 2023.

[2] "The Filmfare Awards Nominations – 1964". The Times Group. Archived from the original on 23 March 2004.

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Contents

Main awards edit

Technical Awards edit

Superlatives edit

See also edit

References edit