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{{short description|Filmfare Awards}}
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{{Infobox film awards
| number = 1
| award = Filmfare Awards
| date = 21 March 1954 <ref name=toi14/>
| site = [[Metro Big Cinemas|Metro Cinema]], [[Bombay]]
| host =[[David Abraham Cheulkar|David]]
| best_film = ''[[Do Bigha Zamin]]''
| most_wins = ''[[Baiju Bawra (film)|Baiju Bawra]]'' & ''[[Do Bigha Zamin]]'' (2)
| next = 2nd
}}
The '''1st [[Filmfare Awards]]''' were held on 21 March 1954, honoring the best in [[Hindi cinema]] in 1953.

That year they were known as the Clare Awards, after [[Clare Mendonça]], a film critic of ''[[The Times of India]]'' who had died in the same year.<ref name="toi14" />

''[[Baiju Bawra (film)|Baiju Bawra]]'' & ''[[Do Bigha Zamin]]'' won 2 awards each - with the former winning [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for [[Meena Kumari]] and [[Filmfare Award for Best Music Director|Best Music]] for [[Naushad]] for 'Tu Ganga Ki Mauj' and the latter winning [[Filmfare Award for Best Film|Best Film]] and [[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for [[Bimal Roy]]. [[Dilip Kumar]] won [[Filmfare Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for ''[[Daag (1952 film)|Daag]]''.

==The Awards==
[[File:Bimal Roy 2007 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Bimal Roy]] — Best Director (''[[Do Bigha Zameen]]'')]]
[[File:Meena Kumari in Yahudi (1958).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Meena Kumari]] — Best Actress (''[[Baiju Bawra (film)|Baiju Bawra]]'')]]
[[File:Devdas (1955) Dilip Kumar.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Dilip Kumar]] — Best Actor (''[[Daag (1952 film)|Daag]]'')]]
[[File:Naushadsaab1.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Naushad]] — Best Music Director (''Tu Ganga ki Mauj, [[Baiju Bawra (film)|Baiju Bawra]]'')]]

In a short ceremony held at [[Metro Big Cinemas|Metro Cinema]] in Bombay (now Mumbai), awards in only 5 categories were handed out.<ref name=toi14>{{cite web| title = Tollywood's tryst with Black Lady | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Tollywoods-tryst-with-Black-Lady/articleshow/31698259.cms |date=9 March 2014| access-date = 2014-04-28 | newspaper = The Times of India}}</ref>
The Chief Guest of function was [[George V. Allen|George Allen]], US Ambassador to India. The ceremony was compared by actor [[David (actor)|David]], and it started with actress [[Nalini Jaywant]] singing the national anthem. This was followed by song and dance performance by various actors, musical performances by [[Talat Mehmood]], [[Geeta Roy]] and [[Mohammed Rafi]]. Next two performances were classical dance performances by [[Vyjayanthimala]] and [[Tanguturi Suryakumari|Surya Kumari]]. The finale of the performance section was a folk-dance performance, "Lure of Rajasthan" by [[Kamini Kaushal]] and her troupe.<ref name="Bhattacharya2013">{{cite book|author =Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya|title=NOTHING BUT!: Book Three: What Price Freedom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HESVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA215|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Partridge Publishing|isbn=978-1-4828-1625-9|pages=214–215}}</ref>

This led to the section where David announced the awards. No nominations were announced, just the winners. Keep with the voting process, where the readers of the magazine,<ref name="Kavoori">{{cite book|author1=Aswin Punathambekar |author2=Anandam P. Kavoori |author3=Rachel Dwer |title=Global Bollywood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CqERCzWn5gC&pg=PA244|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-2944-1|pages=243–244|date=2008-08-01 }}</ref> decided the winners through postal votes, even the awards were given away by readers, chosen via a lucky draw. For example, the Best Film trophy was given by Ambassador Allen to a reader, Saijuddin from Hyderabad, who in turn presented it to Bimal Roy. This was followed by [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] which was won by [[Meena Kumari]] for ''Baiju Bawra'' and [[Filmfare Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] went to [[Dilip Kumar]] for ''Daag''.<ref name="Bhattacharya2013"/> Next, ace music director [[Naushad]] won his first and only Filmfare Award, for Best Music for ''Baiju Bawra''.<ref name=film>{{cite web|title=The Winners - 1953|url=http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/366328.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040309073303/http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/366328.cms|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2004|publisher=Official Listings, Filmfare Awards, [[Indiatimes]]|access-date=8 May 2013}}</ref> The final award, the [[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]] was won by [[Bimal Roy]], present by Sonny Cordiero, a reader from Mumbai.<ref name="Bhattacharya2013"/>

Incidentally, Bimal Roy and Dilip Kumar were the first winners of [[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Filmfare Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] respectively, and remained almost 6 decades later, the ones with the most wins in either category, with 7 and 8 awards respectively. Additionally, Meena Kumari, who was the first winner for [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], held the record for the most wins in the category (4) for 13 years, till her record was broken by [[Nutan]] with her 5th win at the [[26th Filmfare Awards]].<ref name=film/> Fearing similar mob of fans as outside [[Metro Big Cinemas|Metro Cinema]], the venue of the award party was not announced publicly. Later, around hundred invitees gathered at [[Royal Willingdon Sports Club|Wellington Gymkhana Club]].<ref name="Bhattacharya2013"/>

Hollywood star [[Gregory Peck]] was invited to be the guest of honour at the awards but couldn't make it to the function since his flight from Colombo got delayed. However, Peck did attend the after-party banquet that followed the award night at Wellington Gymkhana Club, Mumbai.<ref name="Bhattacharya2013"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/calcutta-times/I-behaved-like-Gregory-Peck-to-impress-Suraiya/articleshow/22778.cms |title='I behaved like Gregory Peck to impress Suraiya' |work= The Times of India |date=2003-06-14 |access-date=2012-09-30}}</ref><ref name="liveindia1">{{cite web|author =liveindia.com |url=http://www.liveindia.com/news/Filmfare_Awards_facts.html |title=Filmfare Awards Facts |publisher=Liveindia.com |access-date=2012-09-30}}</ref>

===Best Film===
*''[[Do Bigha Zamin]]''

===Best Director===
*''[[Bimal Roy]] - [[Do Bigha Zamin]]''

===Best Actor===
*''[[Dilip Kumar]] - [[Daag (1952 film)|Daag]]''

===Best Actress===
*''[[Meena Kumari]] - [[Baiju Bawra (film)|Baiju Bawra]]''

===Best Music===
*''[[Naushad]] - [[Baiju Bawra (film)|Baiju Bawra]] for Tu Ganga Ki Mauj''

==See also==
* [[2nd Filmfare Awards]]
* [[Filmfare Awards]]

== References ==
<references />

==External links==
* [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000245/1954 Winner and nomination of 1st Filmfare Awards] at [[Internet Movie Database]]
* {{cite web |title=One Starry Night in Mumbai |url=http://www.filmfare.com/awards/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991011122259/http://www.filmfare.com/awards/ |url-status=dead |website=Filmfare |archive-date=11 October 1999}}

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