Filmfare Award Punjabi 2018 Winners - List of Punjabi Filmfare Award Winners | Filmfare.com

Best Film - Lahoriye

The film reiterates the fact that the boundaries between India and Pakistan are politically motivated. That given a choice, the people would willingly stay together in peace and harmony. It seeks peace, forgiveness and above all tolerance.

Critics Best Film - Rabb Da Radio

It’s an old-fashioned tale wherein a joint family gets divided over social status and depicts how this disparity comes in the way of relationship between the two branches of the family. And how it’s important to let go of such prejudices and move on.

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male) - Amrinder Gill

Movie - Lahoriye

The actor had to portray someone who loves a girl across the border and is willing to do anything to get married to her. He’s a strict clerk in the RTO at one hand and a lover foolish enough to be with the one he desires on the other. It was a role calling for both passion as well as an undercurrent of humour and Amrinder was a natural on both fronts.

Critics Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male) - Binnu Dhillon

Movie - Vekh Barataan Chailyea

The broad comedy offered a humorous critique on the blind faith still shown towards certain practices to ensure a happy married life and how the poor protagonist falls prey to them. He has to suffer various humiliations and Binnu Dhillon took it all on the chin for the role.

Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female) - Sargun Mehta

Movie - Lahoriye

Love transcends all boundaries. When a man from across the border falls in love with the Pakistani girl played by Sargun Mehta, she can’t believe her senses and when that man somehow comes over and is successful in convincing her parents in letting her get married to her, her happiness is complete. Sargun has captured all the delirium of the first flush of love admiringly well on screen.

Critics Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female) - Mandy Takhar

Movie - Rabb Da Radio

A daughter-in-law is expected to toe the line set by her mother-in-law even if the latter is wrong. Mandy Takhar played one such submissive new bride to the T. However, when things start turning from bad to worse, she takes matters in her own hands and rebels. The role could easily have gone melodramatic but Mandy kept the matters in hand.

Best Director - Ksshitij Chaudhary

Movie - Vekh Baraatan Challiyan

Superstitions still rule our hearts and minds when it comes to marriage and sometimes the bride and the bridegroom have to undergo lots of ridiculous rituals to keep their elders happy. This is the crux of this relevant film which not only induces laughter but makes you think as well.

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male) - Karamjit Anmol

Movie - Manje Bistre

Using prosthetics, false beard and voice modulation, Karamjit Anmol transformed himself into a 70 plus years old halwai. His body language and diction were just perfect for the role and his punch dialogue got the maximum laughs in the film.

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) - Nirmal Rishi

Movie - Nikka Zaildar 2

The actor reprises her role, that of a firebrand grandmother from the first film but isn’t as adamant this time around and has filled it with softer hues.

Best Music Album - Jatinder Shah

Movie - Lahoriye

The romantic numbers of the film had rustic feel to them and complimented the cross border theme of the film.

Best Lyrics - Jass Grewal

Movie - Rabb Da Radio

Song - Rabb Da Radio

The song kind of resonated with the emotional core of the film.

Best Playback Singer (Male) - Amrinder Gill

Movie - Lahoriye

Song - Akhar

The song talks about how a name can become an obsession and the singer has highlighted ths5 in his rendering.

Best Playback Singer (Female) - Neha Bhasin

Movie - Lahoriye

Song - Paani Ravi Da

The song, a folk number, equates love with a flowing river and Neha’s melodious voice does full justice to it.

Best Debut Director - Amberdeep Singh

Movie - Lahoriye

Boundaries may be external but they haven’t yet breached the landscape of the heart. That’s the message of Amberdeep Singh’s debut effort as a director, which he has made with his heart in the right place.

Best Debut Actor In A Leading Role (Male) - Ninja

Movie - Channa Mereya

The film required the protagonist to be all macho and yet intense and sensitive at the same time and Ninja brought out all the shades in spades in this Sairat remake.

Best Debut Actor In A Leading Role (Male) - Tarsem Singh Jassar

Movie - Rabb Da Radio

The film was an emotional roller coaster and Tarsem’s role brought a touch of reason to the proceedings. His personality and body language matched his role -- that of a kind-hearted landowner to a T.