Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English The Filmfare Best Comedian Award was given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise an actor who had delivered an outstanding performance in a comic role.
Although the awards started in 1954, awards for the best comedian category started only in 1967, and has been marked as obsolete since 2007.
Superlatives
| Category | Name | Superlative | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most Awards | Anupam Kher | 5 awards | Awards resulted from 10 nominations |
| Most Nominations | Mehmood | 19 nominations | Nominations resulted in 4 awards. |
| Most Nominations without a Win | Jagdeep, Laxmikant Berde |
4 nominations | – |
Anupam Kher holds the record for the most wins in this category with five awards, followed by Mehmood with four, and Deven Verma and Utpal Dutt, each with three. Kher also holds the record for the most consecutive wins, having won the award three years in a row from 1992 to 1994.
Mehmood holds the record for the most nominations in this category, with 19. He also received the highest number of nominations in a single year, garnering three out of five total nominations in 1975, ultimately winning for his performance in Vardaan.
Multiple wins
| Wins | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 5 | Anupam Kher |
| 4 | Mehmood |
| 3 | Deven Verma, Utpal Dutt |
| 2 | Asrani, Paintal, Satish Kaushik, Johnny Lever, Paresh Rawal, Saif Ali Khan |
Multiple nominations
| Nominations | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 19 | Mehmood |
| 13 | Deven Verma, Johnny Lever |
| 12 | Asrani |
| 10 | Kader Khan, Anupam Kher |
| 9 | Paresh Rawal |
| 6 | Shakti Kapoor |
| 5 | Keshto Mukherjee, Govinda |
| 4 | Jagdeep, Utpal Dutt, Laxmikant Berde |
| 3 | Johnny Walker, Ravi Baswani |
| 2 | Om Prakash, I. S. Johar, Paintal, Amjad Khan, Satish Kaushik, Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, Boman Irani, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, Arshad Warsi |
Winners and nominees
1960s
| Year | Photos of winners | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Template:Abbr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 14th |
Template:Border | Mehmood Template:Double dagger | Atma | Pyar Kiye Jaa | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Mehmood | Mahesh | Love in Tokyo | |||
| Om Prakash | Ramlal | Pyar Kiye Jaa | |||
| 1968 15th |
– | Om Prakash Template:Double dagger | Gokulchand | Dus Lakh | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Johnny Walker | Padampath | Pati Patni | |||
| Mehmood | Madhu | Mehrban | |||
| 1969 16th |
– | Johnny Walker | Teju | Shikar | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| Mehmood | Girdhar Gopal Agarwal | Neel Kamal | |||
| Bajrang "Birju" | Sadhu Aur Shaitaan |
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
See also
References
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