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Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer

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The Filmfare Best Female Playback Award is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a female playback singer who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song.

Although the award ceremony was established in 1953, the category for best playback singer was introduced in 1959. The award was initially common for both male and female singers. The category was divided in 1968, and ever since there have been two awards presented for male and female singers separately.

Superlatives

Superlative Singer
Most awards Asha Bhosle
Alka Yagnik 		7
Most nominations Alka Yagnik 35
Most nominations without ever winning Usha Uthup
Usha Mangeshkar
Chandrani Mukherjee 		3
Most nominations in a single year Asha Bhosle (1975)
Alka Yagnik (1994) 		4
Oldest winner Asha Bhosle 45
Oldest nominee Shobha Gurtu 53
Youngest winner Nazia Hassan 15
Youngest nominee Sushma Shrestha 11

Asha Bhosle and Alka Yagnik, with 7 wins each, hold the record for most awards in this category. Lata Mangeshkar, Anuradha Paudwal, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Shreya Ghoshal have won the award four times. Bhosle won the award in a record of four consecutive years (1972-75), followed by the three consecutive wins of Paudwal (1991-1993), Krishnamurthy (1995-1997) and Yagnik (2000-2002), respectively.

Two singers have achieved the feat of receiving all the nominations of this category in a particular year: Asha Bhosle was the single nominee in 1973, having all the three nominations to her credit, and Alka Yagnik was the single nominee in 1994, having all the four nominations to her credit, one of which she shared--and eventually jointly won--with Ila Arun. Yagnik's four nominations in that year along with Bhosle's four out of the five nominations in 1975 also give them the record for most number of Best Female Playback Singer nominations in a single year.

It must be noted that in 1971, Lata Mangeshkar made the unusual gesture of giving up the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, in order to promote fresh talent. After receiving the award in 1979, Asha Bhosle emulated her elder sister and requested that her name not be considered for the nominations thereafter.

Alka Yagnik holds the record of getting nominated for consecutively 14 years from 1992 till 2005, resulting in 31 nominations and 6 wins.

List of winners

1950s

Note: The category for Best Playback Singer was established in 1959, and until 1967 both male and female singers used to compete for a single award.

1960s

  • 1962 Award won by a male singer

Note: The category for Best Playback Singer is officially divided into two separate categores to acknowledge both male and female singers individually.

1970s

1980s

  • 1987 - No award given
  • 1988 - No award given

1990s

2000s

  • 2000 Alka Yagnik - "Taal Se Taal Mila" from Taal
    • Alka Yagnik - "Chaand Chhupa" from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
    • Kavita Krishnamurthy - "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
    • Kavita Krishnamurthy - "Nimbooda" from 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
    • Sunidhi Chauhan - "Ruki Ruki" from Mast

2010s

See also

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