Filmfare Awards are Bollywood's answer to the Oscars. Bollywood, of course, is the Mumbai film industry, the largest regional cinema in India.
The awards were first given in 1953 to honour Bollywood's best talents and provide encouragement and incentive to the Hindi motion picture industry. Readers of Filmfare magazine were polled to decide the winners; trophies were given to winners of the popular vote.
In the first awards function, only 5 awards were presented. Today there are 31 awards. There is now a separate category of film-critics awards, decided by noted film-critics rather than popular votes.
Filmfare Awards are the oldest and most prominent film awards given for Hindi films in India.
Readers of Filmfare magazine were polled to decide the winners, and over 20,000 readers spread throughout India participated in the polls; trophies were given to winners of the popular vote.
In fact the Filmfare awards have become a farce of late and most people pay greater attention the officially recognized National Awards.
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