7th Filmfare Awards

7th Filmfare Awards
Date	1960
Site	Bombay, India
Highlights
Best Film	Sujata
Best Actor	Raj Kapoor for Anari
Best Actress	Nutan for Sujata
Most awards	Anari (5)
Most nominations	Sujata (8)

The 7th Filmfare Awards were held in 1960.

Sujata led the ceremony with 8 nominations, followed by Anari with 7 nominations, Chhoti Bahen with 6 nominations and Dhool Ka Phool with 4 nominations.

Anari won 5 awards, including Best Actor (for Raj Kapoor) and Best Supporting Actress (for Lalita Pawar), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Main Awards

Bimal Roy, Best Director

Raj Kapoor, Best Actor

Nutan, Best Actress

Manmohan Krishna, Best Supporting Actor

Lalita Pawar, Best Supporting Actress

Shankar Jaikishan, Best Music Director

Mukesh, Best Playback Singer

Shailendra, Best Lyricist

Best Film	Best Director
Sujata – Bimal Roy Productions – Bimal Roy Anari – L. B. Lachman Chhoti Bahen – Prasad Productions Pvt. Ltd. – L. V. Prasad	Bimal Roy – Sujata L. V. Prasad – Chhoti Bahen V. Shantaram – Navrang
Best Actor	Best Actress
Raj Kapoor – Anari as Raj Kumar Dilip Kumar – Paigham as Ratan Lal Dev Anand – Love Marriage as Sonu/Sunil Kumar	Nutan – Sujata as Sujata Mala Sinha – Dhool Ka Phool as Meena Khosla Meena Kumari – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan as Ratna
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Manmohan Krishna – Dhool Ka Phool as Abdul Rashid Mehmood – Chhoti Bahen as Mahesh Raaj Kumar – Paigham as Ram Lal	Lalita Pawar – Anari as Mrs. L. D'Sa Anita Guha – Goonj Uthi Shehnai as Ramkali "Rami" Shashikala – Sujata as Rama Chowdhury
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Shankar–Jaikishan – Anari S. D. Burman – Sujata Shankar–Jaikishan – Chhoti Bahen	Shailendra – "Sab Kuch Seekha Humne" from Anari Majrooh Sultanpuri – "Jalte Hain Jiske Liye" from Sujata Sahir Ludhianvi – "Tu Hindu Banega" from Dhool Ka Phool
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Mukesh – "Sab Kuch Seekha Humne" from Anari Talat Mehmood – "Jalte Hain Jiske Liye" from Sujata	Award won by a male singer Lata Mangeshkar – "Bhaiya Mere" from Chhoti Bahen
Best Story	Best Dialogue
Subodh Ghosh – Sujata Dhruv Chatterjee – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan Mukhram Sharma – Dhool Ka Phool	Ramanand Sagar – Paigham Inder Raj Anand – Anari Inder Raj Anand – Chhoti Bahen

Technical Awards

Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Chintamani Borkar – Navrang	V. K. Murthy – Kaagaz Ke Phool
Best Art Direction	Best Sound Design
M. R. Acharekar – Kaagaz Ke Phool	A. K. Parmar – Navrang

Biggest winners

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Anari	5	7
Sujata	4	8
Navrang	2	3
Kaagaz Ke Phool		2
Dhool Ka Phool	1	4
Paigham		3
Chhoti Bahen	0	6
Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan		2

See also

• Filmfare Awards

External links

• 7th Filmfare awards