70th Filmfare Awards

70th Filmfare Awards
70th Filmfare Awards
Presented on	11 October 2025
Site	EKA Arena, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Hosted by	Shah Rukh Khan; Karan Johar; Maniesh Paul
Organized by	The Times Group
Official website	Filmfare Awards 2025
Highlights
Best Film	Laapataa Ladies
Best Director	Kiran Rao for Laapataa Ladies
Best Actor	Kartik Aaryan for Chandu Champion; Abhishek Bachchan for I Want to Talk; ;
Best Actress	Alia Bhatt for Jigra
Critics Award; for Best Film	I Want to Talk
Most awards	Laapataa Ladies (13)
Most nominations	Laapataa Ladies (24)
Television coverage
Network	Zee TV

The 70th Filmfare Awards was presented by The Times Group, which honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2024.^[2]

Laapataa Ladies led the ceremony with a record 24 nominations, the most for a single film in a year,^[3]^[4] and won a leading 13 awards including, Best Film and Best Director (for Kiran Rao).^[5]

Ceremony

The ceremony, held at EKA Arena, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, honoured the films released in 2024. Shahrukh Khan hosted for the first time since the 63rd Filmfare Awards.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced by Filmfare on 26 September 2025.The winners were announced in a ceremony held on 11 October 2025.

Kartik Aaryan, Best Actor (co-winner)

Abhishek Bachchan, Best Actor (co-winner)

Alia Bhatt, Best Actress

Kiran Rao, Best Director

Rajkummar Rao, Best Actor Critics

Pratibha Ranta, Best Actress Critics

Ravi Kishan, Best Supporting Actor

Chhaya Kadam, Best Supporting Actress

Zeenat Aman, Lifetime Achievement Award (co-winner)

Shyam Benegal, Lifetime Achievement Award (co-winner)

Popular awards

Best Film			Best Director
Laapataa Ladies – Jio Studios, Aamir Khan Productions, Kindling Pictures Article 370 – Jio Studios, B62 Studios Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 – T-Series Films, Cine1 Studios Kill – Dharma Productions, Sikhya Entertainment Stree 2 – Maddock Films, Jio Studios	Kiran Rao – Laapataa Ladies Aditya Suhas Jambhale – Article 370 Amar Kaushik – Stree 2 Anees Bazmee – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – Kill
Best Actor			Best Actress
*Kartik Aaryan – Chandu Champion* as Murlikant Petkar alias Chandu Champion Abhishek Bachchan – I Want to Talk as Arjun Sen** Ajay Devgn – Maidaan as Syed Abdul Rahim Akshay Kumar – Sarfira as Vir Jagannath Mhatre Hrithik Roshan – Fighter as Shamsher "Patty" Pathania Rajkummar Rao – Stree 2 as Vicky	*Alia Bhatt – Jigra* as Satyabhama "Satya" Anand** Kareena Kapoor Khan – Crew as Jasmine Kohli Kriti Sanon – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya as SIFRA Shraddha Kapoor – Stree 2 as Unnamed phantasm Tabu – Crew as Geeta 'Geetu' Sethi Yami Gautam – Article 370 as Zooni Haksar
Best Supporting Actor			Best Supporting Actress
*Ravi Kishan – Laapataa Ladies* as Inspector Shyam Manohar** Pankaj Tripathi – Stree 2 as Rudra Bhaiya Paresh Rawal – Sarfira as Paresh Goswami R. Madhavan – Shaitaan Vanraj Kashyap Raghav Juyal – Kill as Fani Bhushan	*Chhaya Kadam – Laapataa Ladies* as Manju** Ahilya Bamroo – I Want to Talk as Reya Sen Janki Bodiwala – Shaitaan as Jahnvi Rishi Madhuri Dixit – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 as Rajkumari Anjulika and ACP Rathore IPS "Mandira" Priyamani – Article 370 as Rajeshwari Swaminathan
Debut Awards
Best Male Debut		Best Female Debut		Best Debut Director
Lakshya Lalwani – Kill as Amrit Rathod Abhinav Singh – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 as Shubham Narang/Game Paapi Kshitij Chauhan - Vedaa as Suyog Pratap Singh Guru Randhawa – Kuch Khattaa Ho Jaay as Heer Jibraan Khan – Ishq Vishk Rebound as Sahir Singh Rajput Sparsh Shrivastava – Laapataa Ladies as Deepak Kumar	*Nitanshi Goel – Laapataa Ladies* as Phool Kumari** Ahilya Bamroo – I Want to Talk as Reya Sen Anjini Dhawan – Binny and Family as Bindiya "Binny" Singh Dhvani Bhanushali - Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam as Meera Pratibha Ranta – Laapataa Ladies as Jaya Tripathi Singh / Pushpa Rani Pashmina Roshan - Ishq Vishk Rebound as Sanya Malhotra	Aditya Suhas Jambhale – Article 370 Kunal Kemmu – Madgaon Express Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Shirsha Guha Thakurta – Do Aur Do Pyaar Randeep Hooda – Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Varun Grover – All India Rank
Writing Awards
Best Story			Best Screenplay
Aditya Dhar, Monal Thaakar – Article 370 Aakash Kaushik – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – Kill Niren Bhatt – Stree 2 Dibakar Banerjee, Shubham, Prateek Vats – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2	Sneha Desai – Laapataa Ladies Aditya Dhar, Aditya Suhas Jambhale, Arjun Dhawan, Monal Thaakar – Article 370 Niren Bhatt – Stree 2 Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – Kill Kunal Kemmu – Madgaon Express
Best Dialogue			Best Adapted Screenplay
Sneha Desai – Laapataa Ladies Niren Bhatt – Stree 2 Ritesh Shah – Maidaan Ritesh Shah – I Want to Talk Kunal Kemmu – Madgaon Express	Ritesh Shah, Tushar Sheetal Jain – I Want to Talk Saiwyn Quadras, Amit Ravindranath Sharma, Aman Rai, Atul Shahi – Maidaan Sriram Raghavan, Arjit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Anukriti Pandey – Merry Christmas Aamil Keeyan Khan – Shaitaan Jagdeep Sidhu, Sumit Purohit – Sriknath
Music Awards
Best Music Album			Best Lyricist
Laapataa Ladies – Ram Sampath Bad Newz – Rochak Kohli, Vishal Mishra, DJ Chetas-Lijo George, Prem-Hardeep, Karan Aujla, Abhijeet Srivastava Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 – Pritam, Tanishk Bagchi, Amaal Mallik, Sachet–Parampara, Aditya Rikhari, Lijo George–DJ Chetas Maidaan – A. R. Rahman Stree 2 – Sachin–Jigar Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya – Tanishk Bagchi, Sachin–Jigar, Mitraz	Prashant Pandey – "Sajni" – Laapataa Ladies Kausar Munir – "Sarphira" – Chandu Champion Siddhant Kaushal – "Nikat" – Kill Swanand Kirkire – "Dheeme Dheeme" – Laapataa Ladies Varun Grover – "Raat Akeli Thi" – Merry Christmas
Best Playback Singer – Male			Best Playback Singer – Female
Arijit Singh – "Sajni" – Laapataa Ladies Javed Ali – "Mirza" – Maidaan Karan Aulja – "Tauba Tauba" – Bad Newz Pawan Singh – "Aayi Nahi" – Stree 2 Sonu Nigam – "Mere Dholna" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3	Madhubanti Bagchi – "Aaj Ki Raat" – Stree 2 Anumita Nadesan – "Tenu Sang Rakhna" – Jigra Rekha Bhardwaj – "Nikat" – Kill Shilpa Rao – "Ishq Jaisa Kuch – Fighter Shreya Ghoshal – "Dheeme Dheeme" – Laapataa Ladies

Critics' awards

Best Film
I Want to Talk – Shoojit Sircar Laapataa Ladies – Kiran Rao Maidaan – Amit Ravindernath Sharma Merry Christmas – Sriram Raghavan The Buckingham Murders – Hansal Mehta
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Rajkummar Rao– Srikanth* as Srikanth Bolla** Abhishek Bachchan – I Want to Talk as Arjun Sen Pratik Gandhi – Madgaon Express as Pratik Garodia "Pinku" Randeep Hooda – Swatantrya Veer Savarkar as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Sparsh Shrivastava – Laapataa Ladies as Deepak kumar	*Pratibha Ranta – Laapataa Ladies* as Jaya Tripathi Singh / Pushpa Rani** Alia Bhatt – Jigra as Satyabhama "Satya" Anand Kareena Kapoor Khan – The Buckingham Murders as Jasmeet "Jass" Bhamra Nitanshi Goel – Laapataa Ladies as Phool Kumari Vidya Balan – Do Aur Do Pyaar as Kavya Ganeshan

Honorary awards

Cine Icons of Indian Cinema^[6]^[7]
For 1950s: Bimal Roy, Meena Kumari, Dilip Kumar For 1960s: Nutan For 1970s: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan For 1980s: Sridevi For 1990s: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Karan Johar
Filmfare Special Award	Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award	Filmfare R. D. Burman Award
50 years of Sholay	Zeenat Aman Shyam Benegal	Achint Thakkar for Jigra

Technical awards

Nominations for the technical awards were announced on 26 September 2025.

Best Editing	Best Production Design	Best Choreography
Shivkumar V. Panicker – Kill Hemanti Sarkar – Stree 2 Jabeen Merchant – Laapataa Ladies Paramita Ghosh – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 Dev Rao Jadhav – Maidaan	Mayur Sharma – Kill Mayur Sharma – Merry Christmas Rajnish Hedao – Chandu Champion Tiya Tejpal – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 Vikram Singh – Laapataa Ladies	Bosco–Caesar – "Tauba Tauba" – Bad Newz Bosco–Caesar – "Sher Khul Gaye" – Fighter Shaik Jani Basha – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Vijay Ganguly – "Aaj Ki Raat" – Stree 2 Chinni Prakash – "Ami Je Tomar" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
Best Cinematography	Best Sound Design	Best Background Score
Rafey Mehmood – Kill Avik Mukhopadhyay – I Want to Talk Emma Dalesman – The Buckingham Murders Tushar Kanti Ray – Maidaan Vikash Nowlakha – Laapataa Ladies	Subhash Sahoo – Kill Ayush Ahuja – Laapataa Ladies Mandar Kulkarni – The Buckingham Murders Nihar Ranjan Samal – Maidaan Tanmay Bhattacherjee – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2	Ram Sampath – Laapataa Ladies A. R. Rahman – Maidaan Daniel B. Gerorge – Merry Christmas Ketan Sodha, Night Song Records – The Buckingham Murders Ketan Sodha – Kill
Best Costume Design	Best Action	Best Special Effects
Darshan Jalan – Laapataa Ladies Kriti Kolwanker, Maria Thakaran – Maidaan Manisha Melwani, Chandini Whabi, Meagan Concessio, Abhilasha Devnani Baweja – Crew Rohit Chaturvedi – Chandu Champion Veera Kapoor EE – Article 370	Oh Sea Young and Parvez Shaikh – Kill Parvez Shaikh, Craig Macrae – Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan R. P. Yadav, Robert Miller – Maidaan Parvez Shaikh, Oh Sea Young and Sunil Rodrigues – Fighter Vikram Dahiya – Jigra	Redefine – Munjya Digital Domain – Stree 2 Lavan and Kushan (Digital Turbo Media) and Ashutosh Pandey (Reflections Pictures) – Kill Redefine – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Redefine – Maidaan

Superlatives

Multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
24	Laapataa Ladies
15	Kill
14	Stree 2
13	Maidaan
8	I Want to Talk
8	Article 370
7	Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
5	The Buckingham Murders
	Merry Christmas
	Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2
	Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya
4	Jigra
	Madgaon Express
	Chandu Champion
	Fighter
3	Crew
	Bad Newz
	Shaitaan
2	Do Aur Do Pyaar
	Sriknath
	Ishq Vishk Rebound
	Sarfira
	Swatantrya Veer Savarkar

Multiple wins
Awards	Film
13	Laapataa Ladies
6	Kill
3	I Want to Talk
2	Jigra
2	Article 370

References

^ "Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar & Maniesh Paul To Host The 70th Filmfare Awards". Filmfare. 30 September 2025.
^ "70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Date, Venue and More". Filmfare. 23 September 2025.
^ "Nominations for The 70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Full List Out". Filmfare. 26 September 2025.
^ "Filmfare Awards 2025 Nominations Announced: Laapataa Ladies, Stree 2 lead the chart". India TV. 26 September 2025.
^ "Winners of the 70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Full List Out". Filmfare. 12 October 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
^ "Winners of The 70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Full List Out". Filmfare. 12 October 2025.
^ "70th Filmfare Awards 2025 Winners: Complete List Out". Filmfare. 12 October 2025.

70th Filmfare Awards 2025 - Date, Hosts, Venue, Nominees & Tickets

[1] "Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar & Maniesh Paul To Host The 70th Filmfare Awards". Filmfare. 30 September 2025.

[2] "70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Date, Venue and More". Filmfare. 23 September 2025.

[3] "Nominations for The 70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Full List Out". Filmfare. 26 September 2025.

[4] "Filmfare Awards 2025 Nominations Announced: Laapataa Ladies, Stree 2 lead the chart". India TV. 26 September 2025.

[5] "Winners of the 70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Full List Out". Filmfare. 12 October 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2025.

[6] "Winners of The 70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Full List Out". Filmfare. 12 October 2025.

[7] "70th Filmfare Awards 2025 Winners: Complete List Out". Filmfare. 12 October 2025.

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