The 53rd Filmfare Awards South (2006) is a segment of the annual Filmfare Awards South. The ceremony was held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on 09 September 2006.
Initially, Filmfare Awards South was part of the Filmfare Awards (Hindi Cinema). Therefore, the award ceremonies were held in Bombay (now Mumbai) from 1964 to 1971 in a row.
Filmfare Awards South was held in Chennai for the first time in the year 1972. Moreover, it was the first time when the show was held outside Bombay.
However, the show was again held in Bombay in the years 1973 and 1974.
Thereafter since the 22nd Filmfare Awards South (1975), the ceremony started regularly in Chennai.
The 39th Filmfare Awards were also held in Bombay along with Filmfare Awards (Hindi Cinema) on 31 March 1993.
The 44th Filmfare South (1996) was held at the Ravindra Bharati Auditorium, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh on 30 August 1997.
This was the first time when Filmfare Awards South were held outside Bombay/Mumbai or Madras/Chennai.
The award function started to be held in Chennai and Hyderabad in alternate years since the 43rd Filmfare Awards South (1996).
The 53rd Filmfare Awards South (2006) were held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on 09 September 2006.
Initially, only Hindi cinema personalities get nominated and awarded in various Filmfare Categories. Thereafter, Filmfare started new segments like Filmfare South, Filmfare Marathi, and Filmfare Bengali.
Filmfare Magazine presents Filmfare Awards. The Time Group publish the Filmfare magazine. Filmfare Awards acknowledge and honor the talent of Hindi Cinema. Whereas Filmfare Awards South aims to consider South Indian Films and related film personalities to honor and encourage them.
Introduction of Filmfare Awards South
South Film Industry makes films in mainly four languages namely Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. Thus, Filmfare Magazine introduced the new segment of Filmfare Awards for South.
The First Filmfare Award was held in the year 1954 in Bombay (now Mumbai). Filmfare presented awards, for Hindi Cinema, in five categories only.
Thereafter, Filmfare introduced Filmfare Awards South in the year 1964. Meaning thereby, after ten (10) years of the First Filmfare Awards held in Bombay (now Mumbai).
In the meantime, Filmfare also introduced Filmfare Awards East and Filmfare Marathi Awards in 1963. Filmfare Awards East were initially meant for Bangla Cinema. However, Assamese and Odia cinema were also included in the year 2014.
South Indian Films (Tamil and Telugu only) were considered in the 11th, 12th, and 13th Filmfare Awards South. Malayalam Films were added to theĀ 14th Filmfare Awards South (1967). Thereafter, Kannada Films were also added to the 17th Filmfare Awards South. Thus, all four languages of South Indian Films were considered for awards since the 17th Filmfare Awards South (1970).
Introduction of New Categories
Filmfare Awards South presented awards in the category of Best Film only from 1964 to 1972.
Filmfare introduced new categories of awards in the 20th Filmfare Awards (1973). These new categories were Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
Thus, the number of award categories became four (4) since the 20th Filmfare Awards South (1973). Now onward all awards were presented in all four main categories as such Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
Four new award categories were introduced in the 50th Filmfare Awards South for Tamil and Telugu Cinema. These categories were Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Villain, and Best Comedian.
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Three new award categories were introduced in the 53rd Filmfare Awards-South.
Best Lyricist
Best Editor
Best Action Director
Further:
Best Female Playback Singer and Best Male Playback Singer were introduced in the 53rd Filmfare Awards-South (2006) both Male and Female awards were made separated.
By receiving fifteen (15) nominations, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana became the most nominated film, in all language categories, in the 53rd Filmfare Awards South (2006).
Film Chhatrapati received 2nd Highest Nominations in the 53rd Filmfare Awards South (2006).
However, the film did not win any awards.
Chhatrapati became the first film that could not win any awards after receiving ten (10).
Film Athadu received nine (9) nominations and won only one (1) of them.
Trivikram Srinivas won the award for Best Director (Telugu).
Actress Trisha received another nomination for Best Actress (Telugu) for the film Athadu.
Telugu language film Super received seven (7) nominations and won one of them.
Ali won the award for Best Comedian (Telugu) for the film Super.
Telugu language film Sankranthi received five (5) nominations.
However, the film could not win any awards.
Telugu language film Anukokunda Oka Roju received three (3) nominations.
The film won one award in the category of Best Female Playback Singer.
Smita won the award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song Evaraina.
Nominations and Awards received by film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana
Category
Name
Nomination/Won
Best Film (Telugu)
M. S. Raju (Producer)
Won
Best Actor (Telugu)
Siddharth
Won
Best Actress (Telugu)
Trisha
Won
Best Supporting Actor (Telugu)
Srihari
Won
Best Music Director (Telugu)
Devi Sri Prasad
Won
Best Lyricist (Telugu)
Sirivennela Sitaramasastri (for the song Ghal Ghal)
Won
Best Male Playback Singer
Shankar Mahadevan (for the song Chandrullo unde)
Won
Special Jury Award
Devi Sri Prasad
Won
Best Dance Choreographer-South
Prabhu Deva
Won
Best Director (Telugu)
Prabhu Deva
Nomination
Best Supporting Actress (Telugu)
Veda
Nomination
Best Comedian (Telugu)
Sunil Varma
Nomination
Best Lyricist (Telugu)
Sirivennela Sitaramasastri (for the song Chandrullo unde)
Nomination
Best Male Playback Singer
S.P. Balasubrahmanyam (for the song Ghal Ghal)
Nomination
Best Male Playback Singer
Tipu (for the song Something something)
Nomination
Most Nominations and Most Awards-53rd Filmfare Awards South (2006)
Most Awards-Malayalam Cinema
Film
Awards
Achuvinte Amma
3
Thanmathra
2
Most Nominations-Malayalam Cinema
Film
Nominations
Achuvinte Amma
3
Thanmathra
2
Highlights-Most Awards and Most Nominations (Malayalam Cinema)
Malayalam language film Achuvinte Amma won the most awards (3) in the Malayalam Cinema category.
The film won the categories of Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Music Director.
Meera Jasmine won the award for Best Actress (Malayalam).
Ilaiyaraaja won the award for Best Music Director (Malayalam).
Film Thanmathra won two awards.
The film won the categories of Best Director and Best Actor.
Blessy won the award for Best Director (Malayalam).
He won the award for Best Director (Malayalam) for the 2nd consecutive Award.
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