6th Filmfare Awards

The 6th Filmfare Awards were held in 10 May 1959, at Bombay, honoring the best films in Hindi Cinema for the year 1958.^[1][2][3]

6th Filmfare Awards
Date	10 May 1959
Site	Bombay
Hosted by	J. C. Jain
Highlights
Best Film	Madhumati
Best Actor	Dev Anand for Kala Pani
Best Actress	Vyjayanthimala for Sadhna
Most awards	Madhumati (9)
Most nominations	Madhumati (12)
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Madhumati led the ceremony with 12 nominations, followed by Sadhna with 6 nominations and Yahudi with 5 nominations.

Madhumati won 9 awards – a record at the time – including Best Film, Best Director (for Bimal Roy) and Best Supporting Actor (for Johnny Walker), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.^[4]

The ceremony was also noted as Vyjayanthimala became the first actress to receive dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Madhumati and Sadhna, winning for the latter.

Main Awards

Salil Chowdhury, Best Music Director

Best Film	Best Director
Madhumati – Bimal Roy Productions – Bimal Roy Sadhna – B. R. Films – B. R. Chopra Talaaq – Anupam Chitra – Mahesh Kaul, Mukhram Sharma	Bimal Roy – Madhumati B. R. Chopra – Sadhna Mahesh Kaul – Talaaq
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dev Anand – Kala Pani as Karan Mehra Dilip Kumar – Madhumati as Anand / Deven Raj Kapoor – Phir Subha Hogi as Ram Babu	Vyjayanthimala – Sadhna as Champabai / Rajani Meena Kumari – Sahara as Leela Vyjayanthimala – Madhumati as Madhumati / Madhavi / Radha
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Johnny Walker – Madhumati as Charandas Rehman – Phir Subha Hogi as Rehman Sohrab Modi – Yahudi as Ezra	Nalini Jaywant – Kala Pani as Kishori Lalita Pawar – Parvarish as Rukmini Singh Leela Chitnis – Sadhna as Mother
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Salil Chowdhury – Madhumati O. P. Nayyar – Phagun Shankar–Jaikishan – Yahudi	Shailendra – "Yeh Mera Deewaanapan Hai" from Yahudi Sahir Ludhianvi – "Aurat Ne Janam Diya" from Sadhna Shailendra – "Meri Jaan" from Yahudi
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Award won by a female singer	Lata Mangeshkar – "Aaja Re Pardesi" from Madhumati
Best Story	Best Dialogue
Mukhram Sharma – Sadhna Mukhram Sharma – Talaaq Ritwik Ghatak – Madhumati	Rajinder Singh Bedi – Madhumati

Technical Awards

Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Madhumati	Dilip Gupta – Madhumati
Best Art Direction	Best Sound Design
Sudhendu Roy – Madhumati	Ishaan Ghosh – Chandan

Superlatives

The following films had multiple wins and/or nominations

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Madhumati	9	12
Sadhna	2	6
Kala Pani		2
Yahudi	1	5
Talaaq	0	3
Phir Subha Hogi		2

See also

• 7th Filmfare Awards
• 5th Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

References

1. The Times Group (10 May 1959). "1961 Filmfare Awards". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "The Winners 1958". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
3. "The Nominations – 1958". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
4. "Filmfare Awards Flashback: Record breaking films | Filmfare.com". www.filmfare.com. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

External links

• Winner and nomination of 6th Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database