33rd Filmfare Awards

The 33rd Filmfare Awards were held in 1987, in Mumbai, India for the films released in the year 1985.

33rd Filmfare Awards
Date	January 28, 1987
Highlights
Best Film	Ram Teri Ganga Maili
Critics Award for Best Film	Aghaat
Most awards	Ram Teri Ganga Maili (5)
Most nominations	Ram Teri Ganga Maili & Saagar (10)
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Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Saagar led the ceremony with 10 nominations each, followed by Meri Jung and Tawaif with 7 nominations each.

Ram Teri Ganga Maili won 5 awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for Raj Kapoor), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Main awards

Kamal Haasan — Best Actor winner for Saagar

Dimple Kapadia — Best Actress winner for Saagar

Amrish Puri — Best Supporting Actor winner for Meri Jung

Ravindra Jain — Best Music Director winner for Ram Teri Ganga Maili

Best Film

Ram Teri Ganga Maili

• Arjun
• Ghulami
• Meri Jung
• Saagar
• Tawaif

Best Director

Raj Kapoor – Ram Teri Ganga Maili

• Mahesh Bhatt – Janam
• Rahul Rawail – Arjun
• Ramesh Sippy – Saagar
• Subhash Ghai – Meri Jung

Best Actor

Kamal Haasan – Saagar

• Amitabh Bachchan – Mard
• Anil Kapoor – Meri Jung
• Kumar Gaurav – Janam
• Rishi Kapoor – Tawaif

Best Actress

Dimple Kapadia – Saagar

• Jaya Prada – Sanjog
• Mandakini – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
• Padmini Kolhapure – Pyaar Jhukta Nahin
• Rati Agnihotri – Tawaif

Best Supporting Actor

Amrish Puri – Meri Jung

• Anupam Kher – Janam
• Kamal Haasan – Saagar
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda – Ghulami
• Saeed Jaffrey – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
• Utpal Dutt – Saaheb

Best Supporting Actress

Nutan – Meri Jung

• Anita Kanwar – Janam
• Madhur Jaffrey – Saagar
• Raakhee – Saaheb
• Sushma Seth – Tawaif
• Tanvi Azmi – Pyari Behna

Best Comic Actor

Amjad Khan – Maa Kasam

• Amjad Khan – Utsav
• Annu Kapoor – Utsav
• Deven Verma – Saaheb
• Kader Khan – Aaj Ka Daur

Best Story

Tawaif – Dr. Aleem Masroor

• Ankahee – C. T. Khanolkar
• Arjun – Javed Akhtar
• Janam – Mahesh Bhatt
• Ram Teri Ganga Maili – K. K. Singh
• Saaheb – Rajan Roy

Best Screenplay

Paar – Goutam Ghose and Partho Mukherjee

Best Dialogue

Tawaif – Rahi Masoom Raza

Best Music Director

Ram Teri Ganga Maili – Ravindra Jain

• Meri Jung – Laxmikant–Pyarelal
• Pyaar Jhukta Nahin – Laxmikant–Pyarelal
• Saagar – R.D. Burman
• Sur Sangam – Laxmikant–Pyarelal

Best Lyricist

Utsav – Vasant Dev for Mann Kyun Behka ^[1]

• Meri Jung – Anand Bakshi for Zindagi Har Kadam
• Ram Teri Ganga Maili – Hasrat Jaipuri for Sun Sahiba Sun
• Saagar – Javed Akhtar for Saagar Kinare
• Saaheb – Anjaan for Yaar Bina Chain Kahaan Re
• Tawaif – Hasan Kamal for Bohot Der Se

Best Playback Singer, Male

Saagar – Kishore Kumar for Saagar Kinare

• Pyaar Jhukta Nahin – Shabbir Kumar for Tum Se Milkar Naa Jaane Kyun
• Ram Teri Ganga Maili – Suresh Wadkar for Main Hi Main Hoon

Best Playback Singer, Female

Utsav – Anuradha Paudwal for Mere Mann Bajo Mridang

• Pyaar Jhukta Nahin – Kavita Krishnamurthy for Tum Se Milkar Naa Jaane Kyun
• Saaheb – S. Janaki for Yaar Bina Chain Kahaan Re

Best Art Direction

Ram Teri Ganga Maili – Suresh J. Sawant ^[2]

Best Cinematography

Saagar – S. M Anwar ^[3]

Best Editing

Ram Teri Ganga Maili – Raj Kapoor ^[4]

Best Sound

Shiva Ka Insaaf – A RadhaSwami ^[5]

Critics' awards

Best Film

Aaghat

Best Documentary

Bombay – Our City

Most Wins

• Ram Teri Ganga Maili – 5/10
• Saagar – 4/10
• Tawaif – 3/7
• Utsav – 2/4
• Meri Jung – 2/7

See also

• 32nd Filmfare Awards
• 34th Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards