
Most Awards for Best Supporting Actress ImageĪs of 2006, there are a total of 10 categories across each of the four film industries. Most Awards for Best Supporting Actor Image Most Awards for Best Actress - Critics Image Most Awards for Best Actor - Critics Image Hosts question the celebrities about upcoming performances and who they think deserves to take the Black Lady home. This is where actors, actresses, producers, directors, singers, composers, and others that have contributed to Indian cinema are introduced. The Red Carpet is a segment that takes place before the beginning of the actual ceremony. To celebrate the 25th year of the awards, the statues were made in silver and to celebrate the 50th year the statues were made in gold. Pansare under the supervision of The Times of India's art director Walter Langhammer, it is generally made of bronze, its height is 46.5 cm and it weighs around five kg. The statuette, depicting a woman whose arms uprise in a dance number with her fingers touching, is commonly referred to as "Black Lady" (or "The Lady in Black"). Awards for Best Comedian were given from 2002 till 2006 and discontinued later. In the same year, additional categories such as Best Lyricist, Best Playback Singing were also introduced.

Since 2005, these awards were extended to the Malayalam and Kannada film industries. In 2002, awards for Best Supporting actors were given for Telugu and Tamil films. Categories for Best Male Playback Singing and Best Female Playback Singing were introduced in 1997. Award for Best Male debut and Female debut were given irregularly during the same period. Lifetime Achievement Award – South was first given in 1983. The categories for Special Awards were introduced in the 1980s and Best Music Direction in 1990s. In 1972 the awards were extended to Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories in all south Indian films. Kannada films became a part of the event in 1969. In 1963 Awards extended to Best Picture in Telugu, Tamil, Bengali & Marathi, for the awards and from 1966 Malayalam films were added. In 1953 initially recognizing the Hindi film industry. Later the ceremony shifted to the distinctive Music Academy. The awards were being held in the Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai in the early days. The awards were first given in 1953 and the ceremony used to be held along with Bollywood Filmfare Awards.

Kamal Haasan and Uday Kiran hold the record for being the youngest to win the Best Actor award. From 1976, Southern region film awards were separated from Hindi and moved to Chennai. Before 1976, the Awards ceremony was held in Mumbai along with Hindi awards. Each industry is given its own set of creative awards in annual ceremonies that have predominantly been held in Hyderabad and Chennai. The inclusion of the Malayalam cinema in the awards came in 1967 while Kannada cinema was recognized in 1970. In 1964 awards were extended in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi, around the films released in 1963. They were introduced in 1954, around the films released in 1952-53 and Filmfare Awards initially recognizing the Hindi film industry. Her father, Mohammed Kaif, is a British businessman of Kashmiri descent and her mother (Suzanne, also spelt Susanna) is an English lawyer and charity worker. The lyrics were written by Santhosh Varma & Jophy Tharakan.Filmfare Awards South is the South Indian segment of the annual Filmfare Awards, presented by the Filmfare magazine of The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Indian film industry encompassing four languages, namely, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Katrina Kaif was born in British Hong Kong with her mother's surname Turquotte (also spelt Turcotte), on 16 July 1983. The soundtrack features three songs composed by Alphons Joseph. Mohanlal and Kiccha Sudeep did voice-over in Malayalam and Kannada versions, respectively.

The film was simultaneously shot in Malayalam and Kannada languages. In the film, Mukundan and Narain appeared in cameo roles. Initially, Prithviraj Sukumaran and Unni Mukundan were supposed to make cameo appearances. He also played the lead role, while Kannada actors Dhruv Sharma and Aishwarya Devan portrayed other two principal characters. The Hitlist marks the directorial debut of actor Bala. Unni Mukundan as SI Ajai Kumar (Cameo appearance).
