Filmfare Awards set to take place outside Mumbai for first time

After 64 years, organisers of the Filmfare Awards have confirmed that the upcoming ceremony in February, will be held outside Mumbai for the first time.

The 65th Filmfare Awards will be situated in Guwahati, Assam, on 15th February 2020.

Vineet Jain, Managing director of Times Group branded the decision a ‘historic milestone’ and told Mumbai Mirror, 2The association between Bollywood and Assam is decades old, with the state providing a mesmerising backdrop for Hindi films. Ek Pal, which had featured Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Farooq Shaikh, was shot in Jorhat in 1986. The National Award-winning Daman, starring Raveena Tandon, was filmed here in 2001 and more recently, in 2016, the Shahid Kapoor-starrer Rangoon in Dhemaji.”