41st Filmfare Awards

The 41st Filmfare Awards were held in 1996.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, considered one of the most successful films of Bollywood, and Rangeela led the ceremony with 14 nominations each, followed by Karan Arjun with 10 nominations.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge won 10 awards – a record at the time – including Best Film, Best Director (Aditya Chopra), Best Actor (Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (Kajol) and Best Supporting Actress (Farida Jalal), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Other films winning multiple awards included Rangeela with 7, Barsaat with 4 and Karan Arjun with 2 awards.

Madhuri Dixit received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Raja and Yaraana, but lost to Kajol who won the award for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

Kajol won her first of a record-setting five awards for Best Actress for her performance in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

A. R. Rahman won his first Best Music Director award at Filmfare for his first Hindi film Rangeela.

Best Film
 Bombay 

Best Actress
 Manisha Koirala – Bombay 

Best Documentary
 A Narmada Diary