Filmfare Awards Bangla is the Bengali segment of the annual

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, presented by

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to honour the artistic and cinematic excellence in

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. The first installment of the awards were held for

, Assamese and

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films in a ceremony on 29 March 2007. The award ceremony was discontinued for Two Times respectively 2013, 2015 and 2016, then again continued from 2017 and now only given to Bengali Film Industry.

History

On 8 March 2014, in a press conference held at

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, the Worldwide Media group announced that Filmfare Award is debuting in

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to honour the best cinematic artistic talent of the region. In the inaugural installment, awards in 29 categories would be given away at the Science City auditorium, Kolkata on 29 March 2014. The awards would include 21 trophies for Bengali movies and four each for

and Assamese films. The four categories for both Odia and Assamese films are Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. The winners would be selected from 102 entries in Bengali films, 36 and 14 entries respectively from the Odia and Assamese films. Bengali film actor

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was present as the chief guest in that occasion. Thereafter two other press conferences followed in

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on 11 March and

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on 14 March 2014 in the presence of Odia film actor Anubhav Mohanty and Assamese film actors Kopil Bora and Zerifa Wahid respectively. From 2017 the award is given only to Bengali film industry.

Winners

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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://awards.filmfare.com/ * Indian film awards Bengal film awards Cinema of Assam Cinema of Odisha Events of The Times Group 2014 establishments in West Bengal Awards established in 2014