Actor Irrfan Khan won the Filmfare Best Actor in a Leading Role (male) award for Hindi Medium while Vidya Balan bagged the Filmfare Best Actor in Leading Role (female) award for Tumhari Sulu at the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards here.
Actor Rajkumar Rao bagged two awards. He won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (male) for Bareilly Ki Barfi, and also Critics’ Award for Best Actor (male) for Trapped.
Meher Vij won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (female) for Secret superstar. Actress Zaira Wasim won the Critics’ Award for Best Actor (female) for the same film.
Konkona Sen Sharma won the Best Debut Director Award for A Death In The Gunj. Receiving the award from Jaya Bachchan and Sonali Bendre, Konkona said, “Thank you so much... It’s unbelievable. I would like to thank Jio Filmfare. I would like to extend my biggest thank you to my team.”
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won the Best Director Award for Bareilly Ki Barfi.
Amit V Masurkar bagged the Best Original Story Award for his Oscar-nominated film Newton. The film, Newton, also won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film. Hindi Medium won the Best Film (popular) award.
Like last year, Jio Filmfare award ceremony had created a special space for celebrating short films. This year, Jackie Shroff won the Best Actor in Short Film Award for Khujli. Neeraj Ghaywan won the Best Short Film Award for Juice.
Filmfare Best Playback Singer (male) award went to Arijit Singh for Roke Na Ruke Naina from Badrinath Ki Dulhania. Meghna Mishra won the Best Playback Singer (female) award for Nachdi Phira from Secret Superstar.
Iconic music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri won the Jio Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award. Actress Vidya Balan, who handed over the award to the legend, mentioned: “It’s a very special moment for me. Bappi has given the most successful song of my career.”
After receiving the award, the music composer said: “Thank you Jio Filmfare. I am very happy. I would like to dedicate it to my parents, wife and my full family. It’s a hard work of 46 years.”


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