8th WBFJA Awards

{{Infobox film awards

|image=8th_WBFJA_Awards_logo.jpg

|number=5

|award=WBFJA Awards

| awarded_for = Excellence in Indian Bengali cinema

| announced_date = Nominations: {{Start date|2025|1|3|df=y}}

| presented_date = {{Start date|2025|1|12|df=y}}

| date = 12 January 2025

| site = Priya Cinema Hall, Kolkata

| organiser = West Bengal Film Journalists’ Association (WBFJA)

|best_film=Manikbabur Megh

|best_direction=Debaloy Bhattacharya
Srijit Mukherji

|best_actor=Chandan Sen

|best_actress=Rituparna Sengupta

|last=7th|year=2024-2025

| website = {{URL|https://cinemarsomabarton.com/|WBFJA}}

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The 8th West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (WBFJA) also known as Cinemar Somabarton ({{translation|Convocation of Cinema}}) is an annual award ceremony which honoured the best Bengali-language films of 2024.{{cite news |title=WBFJA ceremony: Aparna Sen honoured with lifetime achievement award |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/wbfja-ceremony-aparna-sen-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award/cid/2077358 |access-date=14 January 2025 |work=The Telegraph |date=14 January 2025}}

Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole led the ceremony with 14 nominations, followed by Khadaan with 13 and Ajogyo with 12 nominations respectively.{{Cite web |last=Kanji |first=Subhasmita |date=2025-01-04 |title=খাদান-বহুরূপীকে টেক্কা দিয়ে WBFJA অ্যাওয়ার্ডসে সৃজিতের ছবির জয়জয়কার! |url=https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/srijit-mukherjis-films-are-highly-acknowledged-in-wbfja-awards-padatik-tekka-pri-uttam-got-several-nominations-31735969187986.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250105100518/https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/srijit-mukherjis-films-are-highly-acknowledged-in-wbfja-awards-padatik-tekka-pri-uttam-got-several-nominations-31735969187986.html |archive-date=5 January 2025 |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=Hindustan Times |language=bn}}

Dev received dual nominations under Best Actor and Most Popular Actor categories, for two different films – Tekka and Khadaan, winning the latter.{{Cite web |last=Mukherjee |first=Priyanka |date=2025-01-12 |title='মানিকবাবু' চন্দনের বাজিমাত!বাংলার সিনে সাংবাদিকদের বিচারে পিছিয়ে থাকলেন না দেবও |url=https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/wbfja-awards-2025-manikbabur-megh-wins-best-film-chandan-sen-best-actor-dev-and-khadan-bags-5-awards-31736684509022.html |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Hindustan Times |language=bn}}

Background

The nominations for the ceremony were announced on 3 January 2025 at a Press conference held at Rotary Sadan, Kolkata and subsequently live streamed via Facebook from the official page of the organization. Actors Tota Roy Chowdhury and Rituparna Sengupta were present at the conference. The ceremony was to take place at the Ajanta Circus in order to commemorate the 100th Birth Anniversary of noted Indian actor Raj Kapoor. However, owing to security concerns, the venue was later changed to Priya Cinema.{{Cite web |last=PTI |date=2025-01-13 |title=WBFJA ceremony: Aparna Sen honoured with lifetime achievement award, 'Manikbabur Megh' best film |url=https://theprint.in/feature/wbfja-ceremony-aparna-sen-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award-manikbabur-megh-best-film/2443439/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=The Print |language=en-US}}

Winners & Nominees

=Main Awards=

The nominations were announced on 3 January 2025.

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! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\|Best Film ! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\|Best Director
valing="top" \| Manikbabur Megh – Little Lamb Films Beline – DrishtiShree Arts Pvt. Limited Chaalchitra Ekhon – Hoichoi Studios Padatik – Friends Communication Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole – Hoichoi Studios \| valign="top" \| Debaloy Bhattacharya – *Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole* Srijit Mukherji – *Padatik* Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon Pratim D Gupta – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\|Best Actor ! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\|Best Actress
valign="top" \| Chandan Sen – Manikbabur Megh as Manik Babu Abir Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole as Dipak Chatterjee Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon as Kunal Sen Dev – Tekka as Iqlakh Alam Tota Roy Chowdhury – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale as Kanishka Chatterjee \| valign="top" \| Rituparna Sengupta – Ajogyo as Parna Majumdar Koushani Mukherjee – Bohurupi as Jhimli Pramanik Mamata Shankar – Bijoyar Pore as Alokananda "Aloka" Mimi Chakraborty – Alaap as Aditi Mitra Rukmini Maitra – Boomerang as Ishaa Sen/Nisha
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\|Best Supporting Actor ! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\|Best Supporting Actress
valign="top" \| Silajit Majumdar – Ajogyo as Raktim Majumdar Anirban Chakrabarty – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale as Naseer Indraneil Sengupta – Hubba as Dibakar Sen Paran Bandopadhyay – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole as Swapan Kumar Ritwick Chakraborty – Shontaan as Indranil "Bablu" Bose \| valign="top" \| Swastika Dutta – Alaap as Swatilekha Sen Sanjita Mukherjee – Doaansh as Sarathi Sardar
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Best Actor in a Negative Role ! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Best Actor in a Comic Role
valign="top" \| Anirban Bhattacharya – Athhoi as Anagra "Gogo" Chatterjee Dibyendu Bhattacharya – Bonbibi as Dakshin Ray Jisshu Sengupta – Khadaan as Mohan Das Loknath Dey – Hubba as Baapi Soumya Mukherjee – Pariah: Volume – I as Nanda \| valign="top" \| Saswata Chatterjee – Jamalaye Jibonto Bhanu as Bhanu Bandopadhyay Sourav Das – Boomerang as Ayan
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Best Music Director ! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Best Lyricist
valign="top" \| Amit Chatterjee – *Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole* Amit Chatterjee – Athhoi Anupam Roy, Indraadip Dasgupta & Ranajoy Bhattacharjee – Ajogyo Anupam Roy, Bonnie Chakraborty, Arnab Dutta & Nani Chora Das Baul – Bohurupi Nilayan Chatterjee, Rathijit Bhattacharya & Savvy Gupta – Khadaan \| valign="top" \| Kaushik Ganguly – "Keu Jaanbe Naa" – Ajogyo Anupam Roy – "Ajogyo Ami" – Ajogyo Barish – "Taasher Deshe" – Tekka Dhrubojyoti Chakraborty – "Mon Kharaper Gaan" – Oti Uttam Ranajoy Bhattacharjee – "Tomay Chhere Jete" – Tekka
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Best Male Playback Singer ! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Best Female Playback Singer
valign="top" \| Rathijit Bhattacharya – "Kishori" – Khadaan Timir Biswas – "Taasher Deshe" – Tekka Anupam Roy – "Ajogyo Ami" – Ajogyo Arijit Singh – "Keu Jaanbe Naa" – Ajogyo Rupankar Bagchi – "Mon Kharaper Gaan" – Oti Uttam \| valign="top" \| Antara Mitra – "Kishori" – Khadaan Monali Thakur – "Saaiyaan Beimaan" – Oti Uttam Shreya Ghoshal – "Tui Aamar Hobi Naa" – Ajogyo Shreya Ghoshal – "Elomelo Raat" – Babli Sohini Saha – "Phiraiya Dao" – Khadaan

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! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"|Best Film

! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"|Best Director

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Manikbabur Megh – Little Lamb Films
Beline – DrishtiShree Arts Pvt. Limited
Chaalchitra Ekhon – Hoichoi Studios
Padatik – Friends Communication
Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole – Hoichoi Studios

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Debaloy Bhattacharya – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole
Srijit Mukherji – Padatik
Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon
Pratim D Gupta – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"|Best Actor

! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"|Best Actress

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Chandan Sen – Manikbabur Megh as Manik Babu
Abir Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole as Dipak Chatterjee
Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon as Kunal Sen
Dev – Tekka as Iqlakh Alam
Tota Roy Chowdhury – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale as Kanishka Chatterjee

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Rituparna Sengupta – Ajogyo as Parna Majumdar
Koushani Mukherjee – Bohurupi as Jhimli Pramanik
Mamata Shankar – Bijoyar Pore as Alokananda "Aloka"
Mimi Chakraborty – Alaap as Aditi Mitra
Rukmini Maitra – Boomerang as Ishaa Sen/Nisha

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"|Best Supporting Actor

! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"|Best Supporting Actress

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Silajit Majumdar – Ajogyo as Raktim Majumdar
Anirban Chakrabarty – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale as Naseer
Indraneil Sengupta – Hubba as Dibakar Sen
Paran Bandopadhyay – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole as Swapan Kumar
Ritwick Chakraborty – Shontaan as Indranil "Bablu" Bose

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Swastika Dutta – Alaap as Swatilekha Sen
Sanjita Mukherjee – Doaansh as Sarathi Sardar

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Best Actor in a Negative Role

! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Best Actor in a Comic Role

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Anirban Bhattacharya – Athhoi as Anagra "Gogo" Chatterjee
Dibyendu Bhattacharya – Bonbibi as Dakshin Ray
Jisshu Sengupta – Khadaan as Mohan Das
Loknath Dey – Hubba as Baapi
Soumya Mukherjee – Pariah: Volume – I as Nanda

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Saswata Chatterjee – Jamalaye Jibonto Bhanu as Bhanu Bandopadhyay
Sourav Das – Boomerang as Ayan

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Best Music Director

! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Best Lyricist

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Amit Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole
Amit Chatterjee – Athhoi
Anupam Roy, Indraadip Dasgupta & Ranajoy Bhattacharjee – Ajogyo
Anupam Roy, Bonnie Chakraborty, Arnab Dutta & Nani Chora Das Baul – Bohurupi
Nilayan Chatterjee, Rathijit Bhattacharya & Savvy Gupta – Khadaan

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Kaushik Ganguly – "Keu Jaanbe Naa" – Ajogyo
Anupam Roy – "Ajogyo Ami" – Ajogyo
Barish – "Taasher Deshe" – Tekka
Dhrubojyoti Chakraborty – "Mon Kharaper Gaan" – Oti Uttam
Ranajoy Bhattacharjee – "Tomay Chhere Jete" – Tekka

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Best Male Playback Singer

! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Best Female Playback Singer

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Rathijit Bhattacharya – "Kishori" – Khadaan
Timir Biswas – "Taasher Deshe" – Tekka
Anupam Roy – "Ajogyo Ami" – Ajogyo
Arijit Singh – "Keu Jaanbe Naa" – Ajogyo
Rupankar Bagchi – "Mon Kharaper Gaan" – Oti Uttam

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Antara Mitra – "Kishori" – Khadaan
Monali Thakur – "Saaiyaan Beimaan" – Oti Uttam
Shreya Ghoshal – "Tui Aamar Hobi Naa" – Ajogyo
Shreya Ghoshal – "Elomelo Raat" – Babli
Sohini Saha – "Phiraiya Dao" – Khadaan

=Popular Awards=

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! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Most Popular Film ! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"\| Most Popular Actor
valign="top" \| *Khadaan* – Surinder Films & Dev Entertainment Ventures Ajogyo – Surinder Films Alaap – Surinder Films Bohurupi – Windows Production Boomerang – Jeetz Filmworks & Grassroot Entertainment Eta Amader Golpo – Dhagaa Production \| valign="top" \| Dev – *Khadaan* as Shyam Mahato / Madhu Mahato Ankush Hazra – Mirza: Part 1 – Joker as Mirza Jeet – Boomerang as Samar Sen / Amar Prosenjit Chatterjee – Ajogyo as Prosen Mitra Vikram Chatterjee – Pariah: Volume – I as Lubdhak Chatterjee

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! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Most Popular Film

! ! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center; width:50%;"| Most Popular Actor

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Khadaan – Surinder Films & Dev Entertainment Ventures
Ajogyo – Surinder Films
Alaap – Surinder Films
Bohurupi – Windows Production
Boomerang – Jeetz Filmworks & Grassroot Entertainment
Eta Amader Golpo – Dhagaa Production

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Dev – Khadaan as Shyam Mahato / Madhu Mahato
Ankush Hazra – Mirza: Part 1 – Joker as Mirza
Jeet – Boomerang as Samar Sen / Amar
Prosenjit Chatterjee – Ajogyo as Prosen Mitra
Vikram Chatterjee – Pariah: Volume – I as Lubdhak Chatterjee

=Special Awards=

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! colspan="2"|Lifetime Achievement Award

*Aparna Sen

=Other awards=

Most Promising Actor (Male)
class="wikitable" ! Most Promising Director
*Abhinandan Banerjee – *Manikbabur Megh* Arna Mukhopadhyay – Athhoi Rajdeep Paul & Sarmistha Maiti – Mon Potongo Samik Roy Choudhury – Beline Soojit Dutta – Khadaan
*Sawon Chakraborty – *Chaalchitra Ekhon* Gambhira Bhattacharya – Hubba Pratik Dutta – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole Subhankar Mohanta – Mon Potongo
Most Promising Actor (Female)
*Baishakhi Roy – *Mon Potongo* Oindrila Sen – Mirza: Part 1 – Joker Roshni Bhattacharyya – Oti Uttam Sreya Bhattacharya – Beline Tanika Basu – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale

=Technical Awards=

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Best Screenplay ! Best Editing ! Best Art Director ! Best Cinematography
valign=top\| Anjan Dutt – *Chaalchitra Ekhon* \|valign=top\| Antara Lahiri – *Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale* Srijit Mukherji – *Padatik* \|valign=top\| Tanmoy Chakraborty – *Padatik* \|valign=top\| Anup Singh – *Manikbabur Megh*
Best Sound Designer ! Best Background Score ! Best Costume Designer ! Best Makeup
valign=top\| Abhijit Teny Roy – *Manikbabur Megh* \|valign=top\| Rathijit Bhattacharya – *Khadaan* Amit Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole Prabuddha Banerjee – Alaap Subhadeep Guha – Athhoi Subhajeet Mukherjee – Manikbabur Megh \|valign=top\| Sabarni Das – *Padatik* \|valign=top\| Somnath Kundu – *Padatik*

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Best Screenplay

! Best Editing

! Best Art Director

! Best Cinematography

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Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon

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Antara Lahiri – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale
Srijit Mukherji – Padatik

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Tanmoy Chakraborty – Padatik

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Anup Singh – Manikbabur Megh

Best Sound Designer

! Best Background Score

! Best Costume Designer

! Best Makeup

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Abhijit Teny Roy – Manikbabur Megh

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Rathijit Bhattacharya – Khadaan
Amit Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole
Prabuddha Banerjee – Alaap
Subhadeep Guha – Athhoi
Subhajeet Mukherjee – Manikbabur Megh

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Sabarni Das – Padatik

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Somnath Kundu – Padatik

Controversy

Windows Production, owned by Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy, requested the organisation to revoke the nominations for their film Bohurupi (2024), conveying their wish to abstain from attending the ceremony or accepting any awards.{{Cite web |last=Majumder |first=Rahul |date=5 January 2025 |title=Exclusive: ওয়েস্ট বেঙ্গল ফিল্ম জার্নালিস্ট অ্যাসোসিয়েশন অ্যাওয়ার্ডস থেকে কেন সরলেন নন্দিতা-শিবপ্রসাদ? মুখ খুললেন খোদ 'বহুরূপী'র পরিচালক-অভিনেতা! |url=https://aajkaal.in/story/34055/director-shiboprosad-mukherjee-reveals-why-his-production-house-windows-took-decision-to-withdraw-all-the-nominations-of-bohurupi-from-wbfja-2025-ent |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Aajkaal |language=Bengali}}{{cite news |last1=Rana |first1=Sayani |title=শিবপ্রসাদ-নন্দিতা পর 'WBFJA'-এর মনোনয়ন তালিকা থেকে রানা সরকার সরিয়ে নিলেন তাঁর ছবির নাম! |url=https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/after-shiboprosad-mukherjee-and-nandita-roy-rana-sarkars-withdraw-their-name-from-wbfja-award-31736133102549.html |access-date=14 January 2025 |work=Hindustan Times |date=6 January 2025 |language=bn}}

Superlatives

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14 \| Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole
13 \| Khadaan
12 \| Ajogyo
8 \| Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale
7 \| Manikbabur Megh, Padatik
6 \| Athhoi, Chaalchitra Ekhon

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|+Multiple nominations

! Nominations !! Film

| Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole

| Khadaan

| Ajogyo

| Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale

| Manikbabur Megh, Padatik

| Athhoi, Chaalchitra Ekhon

References

Category:West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

Category:Indian awards

External Links

{{URL|https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/wbfja-ceremony-aparna-sen-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award-manikbabur-megh-best-film-101736772206127.html|WBFJA ceremony: Aparna Sen honoured with lifetime achievement award, 'Manikbabur Megh' best film}}