Filmfare Award for Best Story

The Filmfare Award for Best Story is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a writer who wrote a film's story.

List of winners

1950s

• 1955 Mukhram Sharma – Aulad
• 1956 Mukhram Sharma – Vachan
• Manoranjan Ghose – Jagriti
• Rajinder Singh Bedi – Garam Coat
• 1957 Amiya Chakrabarty – Seema
• 1958 Akhtar Mirza – Naya Daur
• 1959 Mukhram Sharma – Sadhna
• Mukhram Sharma – Talaaq
• Ritwik Ghatak – Madhumati

1960s

• 1960 Subodh Ghosh – Sujata
• Dhruva Chatterjee – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan
• Mukhram Sharma – Dhool Ka Phool
• 1961 Ruby Sen – Masoom
• Saghir Usmani – Chaudhvin Ka Chand
• Salil Chowdhury – Parakh
• 1962 C. V. Sridhar – Nazrana
• C. J. Pavri – Kanoon
• Mohan Kumar – Aas Ka Panchhi
• 1963 K.P. Kottarakara – Rakhi
• Bimal Mitra – Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
• Jawar N. Sitaraman – Main Chup Rahungi
• 1964 Jarasandha – Bandini
• B.R. Films (Story Dept.) – Gumrah
• C. V. Sridhar – Dil Ek Mandir
• 1965 Ban Bhatt – Dosti
• Inder Raj Anand – Sangam
• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Shehar Aur Sapna
• 1966 Akhtar Mirza – Waqt
• Gulshan Nanda – Kaajal
• Ramanand Sagar – Arzoo
• 1967 R. K. Narayan – Guide
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Anupama
• Nihar Ranjan Gupta – Mamta
• 1968 Manoj Kumar – Upkaar
• Ashapoorna Devi – Mehrban
• Protiva Bose – Aasra
• 1969 Sachin Bhowmick – Brahmachari
• Gulshan Nanda – Neel Kamal
• Ramanand Sagar – Aankhen

1970s

• 1970 Vasant Kanetkar – Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Aashirwad
• Sachin Bhowmick – Aradhana
• 1971 Chandrakant Kakodkar – Do Raaste
• Gulshan Nanda – Khilona
• Sachin Bhowmick – Pehchan
• 1972 Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Anand
• Gulshan Nanda –
• Gulshan Nanda – Naya Zamana
• 1973 Basu Bhattacharya – Anubhav
• Manoj Kumar – Shor
• 1974 Salim–Javed – Zanjeer
• Gulzar – Koshish
• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Achanak
• Mulraj Rajda – Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar
• Shakti Samanta – Anuraag
• 1975 Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai – Garm Hava
• Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay – Kora Kagaz
• Manoj Kumar – Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
• N. T. Rama Rao – Bidaai
• Shyam Benegal – Ankur
• 1976 Salim–Javed – Deewaar
• Kamleshwar – Aandhi
• Salim–Javed – Sholay
• Shaktipada Rajguru – Amanush
• Vijay Tendulkar – Nishant
• 1977 Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay – Arjun Pandit
• Ashapoorna Devi – Tapasya
• Gulshan Nanda – Mehbooba
• Kamleshwar – Mausam
• Pamela Chopra –
• 1978 Sharat Chandra Chatterji – Swami
• Asrani – Chala Murari Hero Banne
• Bhusan Bangali – Kinara
• Raju Saigal – Doosra Aadmi
• Shanker Shesh – Gharaonda
• 1979 Dinesh Thakur – Ghar
• Chandrakant Kakodkar – Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
• Laxmikant Sharma – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
• Salim–Javed – Trishul
• Samaresh Basu – Kitaab

1980s

• 1980 Shanker Shesh – Dooriyaan
• K. Viswanath – Sargam
• Ruskin Bond – Junoon
• Sailesh Dey – Gol Maal
• Salim–Javed – Kaala Patthar
• 1981 Vijay Tendulkar – Aakrosh
• D. N. Mukherjee – Khubsoorat
• Esmayeel Shroff – Thodisi Bewafaii
• Ram Kalkar – Aasha
• Shabd Kumar – Insaaf Ka Tarazu
• 1982 Chetan Anand – Kudrat
• Jaywant Dalvi – Chakra
• K. Balachander – Ek Duuje Ke Liye
• Leela Phansalkar – Baseraa
• Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad – Kalyug
• 1983 Samaresh Basu – Namkeen
• Achla Nagar – Nikaah
• Kamna Chandra – Prem Rog
• Sagar Sarhadi – Bazaar
• Salim–Javed – Shakti
• 1984 S. D. Panvalkar – Ardh Satya
• Balu Mahendra – Sadma
• Javed Akhtar – Betaab
• Mahesh Bhatt – Arth
• Mohan Kumar – Avtaar
• 1985 Mahesh Bhatt – Saaransh
• Gyav Dev Agnihotri – Ghar Ek Mandir
• Javed Akhtar – Mashaal
• Shabd Kumar – Aaj Ki Awaaz
• Sudhir Mishra – Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
• 1986 Aleem Masroor – Tawaif
• C. T. Khanolkar – Ankahee
• Javed Akhtar – Arjun
• K. K. Singh – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
• Mahesh Bhatt – Janam
• Rajan Roy – Saaheb
• 1987 Not Awarded
• 1988 Not Awarded
• 1989 Subodh Ghosh – Ijaazat

1990s

• 1990 K. Vishwanath – Eeshwar
• Aditya Bhattacharya – Raakh
• J. P. Dutta – Batwara
• Joy Augustine – Goonj
• 1991 Rajkumar Santoshi – Ghayal
• 1992 Honey Irani – Lamhe
• Ramapada Chowdhury – Ek Doctor Ki Maut
• Sai Paranjpye – Disha
• Sujit Sen, Nana Patekar – '
• 1993 Not Awarded
• 1994 Sutanu Gupta – Damini – Lightning
• 1995 K. K. Singh – Krantiveer
• 1996 Ram Gopal Varma – Rangeela
• 1997 Gulzar – Maachis
• 1998 Kamal Haasan – Virasat
• 1999 Mahesh Bhatt – Zakhm

2000s

• 2000 Vinay Shukla – Godmother
• 2001 Honey Irani – Kya Kehna
• 2002 Ashutosh Gowariker – Lagaan
• 2003 Jaideep Sahni – Company
• 2004 Nagesh Kukunoor – 3 Deewarein
• 2005 Yash Chopra– Veer-Zaara
• 2006 Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
• 2007 Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra – Lage Raho Munna Bhai
• Jaideep Sahni – Khosla Ka Ghosla
• Kamlesh Pandey – Rang De Basanti
• Karan Johar – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
• Kersi Khambatta – Being Cyrus
• Mahesh Bhatt – Gangster
• 2008 Amol Gupte – Taare Zameen Par
• Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India
• Mani Ratnam – Guru
• Rahul Dholakia, David N. Donihue – Parzania
• Vibha Singh – Dharm
• 2009 Abhishek Kapoor – Rock On!!
• Aseem Arora – Heroes
• Dibakar Banerjee, Urmi Juvekar – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
• Neeraj Pandey – A Wednesday
• Santosh Sivan – Tahaan

2010s

• 2010 Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots
• Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Malhotra, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Sanjay Maurya – Gulaal
• Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal
• Jaideep Sahni – '
• Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance
• 2011 Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan
• 2012 Sanjay Chauhan – I Am Kalam
• Akshat Verma – Delhi Belly
• Amol Gupte – Stanley Ka Dabba
• Rajat Arora – The Dirty Picture
• Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
• 2013 Juhi Chaturvedi – Vicky Donor
• 2014 Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB
• 2015 Rajat Kapoor – Ankhon Dekhi
• Anurag Kashyap – Ugly
• Imtiaz Ali – Highway
• Nitin Kakkar – Filmistaan
• Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi – PK
• 2016 V. Vijayendra Prasad – Bajrangi Bhaijaan
• Juhi Chaturvedi – Piku
• Olivia Stewart – Titli
• R. Balki – Shamitabh
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay – Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
• 2017 Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre Dhillon – Kapoor & Sons.
• 2018 Amit V Masurkar – Newton
• Amit Joshi – Trapped
• Rahul Dahiya – G Kutta Se
• Shanker Raman and Sourabh Ratnu – Gurgaon
• Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
• Suresh Triveni – Tumhari Sulu
• 2019 Anubhav Sinha – Mulk
• Anudeep Singh – Mukkabaaz
• Raj and DK – Stree
• Sharat Katariya – Sui Dhaaga
• <s>Akshat Ghildial, Shantanu Srivastava and Jyoti Kapoor – Badhaai Ho</s> (Withdrawn)

2020s

• 2020 Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki – Article 15
• Abhishek Chaubey, Sudip Sharma – Sonchiriya
• Jagan Shakti – Mission Mangal
• Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta and Nikhil Mehrotra – Chhichhore
• Vasan Bala – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
• Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti – Gully Boy
• 2021 Anubhav Sinha, Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad
• Hardik Mehta – Kaamyaab
• Juhi Chaturvedi – Gulabo Sitabo
• Rajesh Krishnan, Kapil Sawant – Lootcase
• Rohena Gera – Sir
• Shubham – Eeb Allay Ooo!
• 2022 Abhishek Kapoor, Supratik Sen and Tushar Paranjape – Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
• Dibakar Banerjee and Varun Grover – Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
• Kanika Dhillon – Haseen Dilruba
• Nandha Periyasamy – Rashmi Rocket
• Seema Pahwa – Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
• 2023 Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary – Badhaai Do
• Anirudh Iyer – An Action Hero
• Jaspal Singh Sandhu And Rajeev Barnwal – Vadh
• Niren Bhatt – Bhediya
• Sunil Gandhi – Uunchai
• 2024 Amit Rai – OMG 2
• Devashish Makhija – Joram
• Anubhav Sinha – Bheed
• Atlee – Jawan
• Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan, Sumit Roy – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
• Parijat Joshi, Tarun Dudeja – Dhak Dhak
• Karan Shrikant Sharma – Satyaprem Ki Katha
• Siddharth Anand – Pathaan
• 2025 Aditya Dhar, Monal Thaakar – Article 370
• Aakash Kaushik – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
• Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – Kill
• Niren Bhatt – Stree 2
• Dibakar Banerjee, Shubham, Prateek Vats – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2

See also

• Cinema of India

References

External links

• Filmfare Awards Best Story
• Filmfare Awards Best Short Films