Filmfare Awards East is the Bengali segment of the annual
Filmfare Awards, presented by
The Times Group to honour the artistic and cinematic excellence in
Bengali. The first installment of the awards were held for
Bengali,
Assamese and
Odia films in a ceremony on 29 March 2007.[2]
History
On 8 March 2014, in a press conference held at
Kolkata, the Worldwide Media group announced that Filmfare Award is debuting in
Eastern India to honour the best cinematic artistic talent of the region. In the inaugural installment, awards in 29 categories would be given away at the
Science City auditorium, Kolkata on 29 March 2014. The awards would include 21 trophies for Bengali movies and four each for
Odia and Assamese films. The four categories for both Odia and Assamese films are Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.[3][4]
The winners would be selected from 102 entries in Bengali films, 36 and 14 entries respectively from the Odia and Assamese films.[3]
Bengali film actor
Prosenjit Chatterjee was present as the chief guest in that occasion.[5][6][7] Thereafter two other press conferences followed in
Bhubaneswar on 11 March[3][8] and
Guwahati on 14 March 2014[9][4] in the presence of Odia film actor
Anubhav Mohanty and Assamese film actors
Kopil Bora and
Zerifa Wahid respectively. From 2017 the award is given only to
Bengali film industry.