Power Brands BFJA 2023 Open Ballot Votes of Film Journalists’

The 2023 Power Brands-Bollywood Film Journalists’ Awards results are out!

Started in 2017, Power Brands Bollywood Film Journalists’ Awards are now dubbed as the the only HONEST AWARDS in the country because:

• Where more than 25 of the leading film Journalists’ of this country do an OPEN BALLOT VOTING for all categories and disclose who they voted for online TWO WEEKS before the award ceremony.
• Where awards are given irrespective of the winners presence as they are are declared a fortnight in advance at least.
• There are no nominations and Journalists’ are free to give any one their vote amongst the films released last year.

Basically it's the only credible awards in the country and for the same it has garnered huge appreciation, though still only in its 6th year.

This year 83 is all set to take home 6 of the Roaring Lions including, Sardar Udham Singh and Pushpa are taking home 5 Roaring Lions including Best Director for Soojit Sarkar. The best film along with Four Roaring Lions goes to Shershah.

Ranveer Singh & Vicky Kaushal got exactly the same number of votes and are the joint winners of the Best Actor Male while Kriti Sanon takes home the Best Actor Female.

The Critics Choice Best Actor Male goes to Siddarth Malhotra while Vidya Balan will be taking home the Critics Choice Best Actor Female.

The complete list of winners this year are:

Best Film	Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Director	Sanjay Leela Bhansali - Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Actor Male	Hrithik Roshan - Vikram Vedha
Best Actor Female	Alia Bhatt - Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Supporting Actor Male	Anil Kapoor - Jugjugg Jeeyo
Best Supporting Actor Female	Shefali Shah - Darlings - (4 Votes / Jalsa - 2 Votes)
Best Music Director	Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva – PRITAM
Best Background Score	Qala - Sagar Desai
Best Cinematography	Sudeep Chatterjee, ISC - Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Story Adapted	Gangubai Kathiawadi - Adapted from Mafia Queens of Mumbai by Hussain Zaidi
Best Story Original	Darlings (Parveez Sheikh, Jasmeet K Reen, Vijay Maurya)
Best Production Design	Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray - For Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Singer Male	Arijit Singh - 11 Votes Kesariya, Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva– 7 Votes, Phir na aisi raat ayegi (Laal Singh Chadha) – 1 VOTE, Apna Bana Le (Bhediya) - 1 Vote, Mushkurahat (Gangubai Kathiawadi) – 1 Vote, AMI JE TOMAR TANDAV, MERE DHOLNA (BHOOL BHULAIYAA 2) – 1 VOTE
Best Singer Female	Jab Saiyaan - Shreya Ghoshal - Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Costume Design	Sheetal Sharma – Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Editing	Sandeep Francis (Drishyam 2)
Best Sound Design	Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee - Bramhastra Part 1 Shiva
Best Makeup & Hair	Preetisheel G. Singh / Preetisheel Singh D'souza – 6 VOTES GANGUBAI KATHIAWADI – 5 VOTES, BACHCHAN PAANDEY – 1 VOTE
Best - Visual Effects	DNEG Redefine - Bramhastra Part 1 Shiva
Best Animated Feature Film	Chhota Bheem Aur Registhan Ka Shahensha
Best Short Film	Masterji
Best Documentary	Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes'
Best Debutante (Male)	Shantanu Maheshwari - Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Debutante (Female)	Manushi Chhillar - Samrat Prithiviraj
Best Screenplay	Parveez Sheikh & Jasmeet K Reen (Darlings)
Best Lyrics	Amitabh Bhattacharya – 8 VOTES KESARIYA - Brahmāstra Part 1 Shiva – 6 VOTES, GHODEY PEH SAWAAR – QALA – 1 VOTE, TELE HAWAALE – LAAL SINGH CHADHA – 1 VOTE
Best Child Artiste	Ahmad Ibn Umar - Laal Singh Chadhha
Best Web Series	ROCKET BOYS / DIR. - ABHAY PANNU
Best Action	Parvez Shaikh Vikram Vedha
Best Choreographer	KRUTI MAHESH-- song Dholida- Gangubai Kathiawadi
2022 Best Debutante Director	Jasmeet K Reen For Darlings

1. Faridoon Shahryar	2. Ram Kamal Mukherjee	3. Ashameera Aiyappan
4. Shama Bhagat	5. Dr Ayanjit Sen	6. Vishal Verma
7. Rajiv Vijayakar	8. Johnson Thomas	9. Jyoti Venkatesh
10. Balaji Vittal	11. Hemant Sanganee	12. Joginder Tuteja
13. Chaitanya Padukone	14. Ronak Kotecha	15. RJ Anuraag Pandey
16. Daily Indian Media Film Review

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