12th Filmfare Awards explained

The 12th Filmfare Awards were held in 1965.

Sangam led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Dosti with 7 nominations and Shehar Aur Sapna with 4 nominations.

Dosti won 6 awards, including Best Film and Best Music Director (Laxmikant–Pyarelal), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Sangam was the runner-up of the ceremony with 4 awards, including Best Director (for Raj Kapoor) Best Actress (for Vyjayanthimala).

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
Dosti – Rajshri Productions – Tarachand Barjatya Sangam – R. K. Films – Raj Kapoor Shehar Aur Sapna – Naya Sansar – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	Raj Kapoor – Sangam Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Shehar Aur Sapna Satyen Bose – Dosti
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dilip Kumar – Leader as Vijay Khanna Raj Kapoor – Sangam as Flight Lt. Sundar Khanna Rajendra Kumar – Ayee Milan Ki Bela as Shyam	Vyjayanthimala – Sangam as Radha Mehra[1] Mala Sinha – Jahan Ara as Jahanara Begum Sadhana Shivdasani – Woh Kaun Thi? as Sandhya / Sandhya's twin sister[2]
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Nana Palsikar – Shehar Aur Sapna as Johnny Dharmendra – Ayee Milan Ki Bela as Ranjit Rajendra Kumar – Sangam as Mag. Gopal Verma	Nirupa Roy – Shehnai as Shobha Lalita Pawar – Kohra as Dai Maa Shashikala – Ayee Milan Ki Bela as Roopa
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Laxmikant–Pyarelal – Dosti Madan Mohan – Woh Kaun Thi? Shankar–Jaikishan – Sangam	Majrooh Sultanpuri – "Chahunga Main Tujhe" from Dosti Shailendra – "Dost Dost Naa Raha" from Sangam Bharat Vyas – "Jyot Se Jyot" from Sant Gyaneshwar
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Mohammed Rafi – "Chahunga Main Tujhe" from Dosti Mukesh – "Dost Dost Naa Raha" from Sangam	Award won by a male singer Lata Mangeshkar – "Jyot Se Jyot" from Sant Gyaneshwar
Best Story	Best Dialogue
Ban Bhatt – Dosti Inder Raj Anand – Sangam Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Shehar Aur Sapna	Govind Moonis – Dosti

Technical Awards

Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
G. L. Yadav and T. K. Desai – Kohra Sant Singh – Jahan Ara	K. H. Kapadia – Woh Kaun Thi? Krishnarao Vashirde – Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne
Best Editing	Best Sound Design
Raj Kapoor – Sangam	Allauddin – Sangam

Superlatives

The following films had multiple wins and/or nominations

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Dosti	6	7
Sangam	4	11
Shehar Aur Sapna	1	4
Woh Kaun Thi?		3
Jahan Ara		2
Kohra
Ayee Milan Ki Bela	0	3
Sant Gyaneshwar		2

See also

• 14th Filmfare Awards
• 13th Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

References

https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000245/1965/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Winners list. 2023.
2. Web site: The Filmfare Awards Nominations – 1964. The Times Group. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20040323040547/http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/366555.cms. 23 March 2004.