The heart-wrenching love story between a deaf-and-mute boy and an autistic girl, directed by Anurag Basu, won Ileana D'Cruz the best debut (Female) award.
Pritam received the Best Background Score and Best Music Director trophies for 'Barfi!'. The film, which was India's official entry at the Oscars this year, also won the Sony Trendsetter Of The Year award last night at the 58th Filmfare awards held at the Yash Raj Films studio in suburban Mumbai.
While Vidya continued her winning spree bagging the Best Actress award for her portrayal of a pregnant woman in search of her husband in 'Kahaani', Sujoy Ghosh won the Best Director award for the film.
The thriller also bagged technical awards like Best Cinematography (Setu), Best Sound Design (Sanjay Maurya & Allwin Rego) and Best Editing (Namrata Rao).
It was a big night for most small budget content-driven films released in 2012. Anurag Kashyap's directorial 'Gangs of Wasseypur', went head to head with John Abraham's debut production 'Vicky Donor', both bagging four awards each.
Annu Kapoor won the best actor in a supporting role (male) gong for his portrayal of Dr Chaddha in 'Vicky Donor'. The film's writer Juhi Chaturvedi earned the Best Story award.
Ayushmann Khurrana, who made his acting debut in the movie, won two awards -
