Filmfare Award for Best Story

Filmfare Award for Best Story

Filmfare Award for Best Story is presented by Filmfare to recognise the writer who pens the strongest and most sublime story of a Hindi Film.

The Filmfare Award for Best Story is awarded by Filmfare in its annual Filmfare Awards to the writer who crafts and develops the most appreciable story, which leaves an impression in the minds of the viewers when showcased in a Hindi motion picture of the preceding year. The category was introduced in the Filmfare Awards in 1955, a year after their inception.

Filmfare Award for Best Story at 61st Filmfare Awards
The 61st edition of Filmfare Awards held in January 2016 recognised 5 incredibly well-structured stories of Hindi films of 2015 for Filmfare Award for Best Story. The nominated writers of these stories included K. V. Vijayendra Prasad for ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay for ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’, Olivia Stewart for ‘Titli’, R. Balki for ‘Shamitabh’ and Juhi Chaturvedi for ‘Piku’.

The award was presented to K. V. Vijayendra Prasad for the heart warming story of ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, a comedy drama featuring Salman Khan and Harshaali Malhotra in the lead roles. Salman Khan plays an ardent Hanuman devotee who embarks on taking a 6-year old mute Pakistani girl played by Harshaali Malhotra, back to her hometown in Pakistan, without any Indian passport or visa for Pakistan, after she gets separated from her parents in India and is left stranded and helpless.

List of Winners of Filmfare Award for Best Story
The list hereunder highlights the winning writers of Filmfare Award for Best Story, for the years 1990 to 2016.

Year	Winning Writer	Film
2016	K. V. Vijayendra Prasad	Bajrangi Bhaijaan
2015	Rajat Kapoor	Ankhon Dekhi
2014	Subhash Kapoor	Jolly LLB
2013	Juhi Chaturvedi	Vicky Donor
2012	Sanjay Chauhan	I Am Kalam
2011	Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane	Udaan
2010	Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani	3 Idiots
2009	Abhishek Kapoor	Rock On!!
2008	Amol Gupte	Taare Zameen Par
2007	Vidhu Vinod Chopra& Rajkumar Hirani	Lage Raho Munna Bhai
2006	Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain & Shiv Kumar Subramaniam	Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
2005	Aditya Chopra	Veer-Zaara
2004	Nagesh Kukunoor	3 Deewarein
2003	Jaideep Sahni	Company
2002	Ashutosh Gowariker	Lagaan
2001	Honey Irani	Kya Kehna
2000	Vinay Shukla	Godmother
1999	Mahesh Bhatt	Zakhm
1998	Kamal Haasan	Virasat
1997	Gulzar	Maachis
1996	Ram Gopal Varma	Rangeela
1995	Ishraq-Suja	Krantiveer
1994	Sutanu Gupta	Damini
1993	Not Awarded
1992	Honey Irani	Lamhe
1991	Rajkumar Santoshi	Ghayal
1990	K. Vishwanath	Eeshwar

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