8th WBFJA Awards

2024-2025 WBFJA Awards
2024-2025 WBFJA Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in Indian Bengali cinema
Announced on	Nominations: 3 January 2025
Presented on	12 January 2025
Date	12 January 2025
Organised by	West Bengal Film Journalists’ Association (WBFJA)
Official website	WBFJA
Highlights
Best Film	TBA
Best Direction	TBA
Best Actor	TBA
Best Actress	TBA
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The 8th West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (WBFJA) also known as Cinemar Somabarton (transl. Convocation of Cinema) is an upcoming annual award ceremony which will be honouring the best Bengali-language films of 2024.

Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole led the ceremony with 14 nominations, followed by Chaalchitro with 8 and Padatik with 7 nominations.^[1]

Dev received dual nominations under Best Actor and Most Popular Actor categories, for two different films – Tekka and Khadaan respectively.

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 is to take place at Ajanta Circus in order to commemorate the 100th Birth Anniversary of noted Indian actor Raj Kapoor.^[2]^[3]

Winners & Nominees

Main Awards

The nominations were announced on 3 January 2025.^[1]

Best Film	Best Director
Beline – DrishtiShree Arts Pvt. Limited Chaalchitra Ekhon – Hoichoi Studios Padatik – Friends Communication Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole – Hoichoi Studios	Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon Debaloy Bhattacharya – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole Pratim D Gupta – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale Srijit Mukherji – Padatik
Best Actor	Best Actress
Abir Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole as Dipak Chatterjee Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon as Kunal Sen Chandan Sen – Manikbabur Megh as Manik Babu Dev – Tekka as Iqlakh Alam Tota Roy Chowdhury – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale as Kanishka Chatterjee	Koushani Mukherjee – Bohurupi as Jhimli Pramanik Mamata Shankar – Bijoyar Pore as Alokananda "Aloka" Mimi Chakraborty – Alaap as Aditi Mitra Rituparna Sengupta – Ajogyo as Parna Majumdar Rukmini Maitra – Boomerang as Ishaa Sen/Nisha
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
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 Silajit Majumdar – Ajogyo as Raktim Majumdar	Sanjita Mukherjee – Doaansh as Sarathi Sardar Swastika Dutta – Alaap as Swatilekha Sen
Best Actor in a Negative Role	Best Actor in a Comic Role
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	Saswata Chatterjee – Jamalaye Jibonto Bhanu as Bhanu Bandopadhyay Sourav Das – Boomerang as Ayan
Best Music Director	Best Background Score
Amit Chatterjee – Athhoi Amit Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole 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	Amit Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole Prabuddha Banerjee – Alaap Rathijit Bhattacharya – Khadaan Subhadeep Guha – Athhoi Subhajeet Mukherjee – Manikbabur Megh
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Anupam Roy – Ajogyo Ami from Ajogyo Arijit Singh – Keu Jaanbe Naa from Ajogyo Rathijit Bhattacharya – Kishori from Khadaan Rupankar Bagchi – Mon Kharaper Gaan from Oti Uttam Timir Biswas – Taasher Deshe from Tekka	Antara Mitra – Kishori from Khadaan Monali Thakur – Saaiyaan Beimaan from Oti Uttam Shreya Ghoshal – Tui Aamar Hobi Naa from Ajogyo Shreya Ghoshal – Elomelo Raat from Babli Sohini Saha - Phiraiya Dao from Khadaan
Best Lyricist
Anupam Roy – Ajogyo Ami from Ajogyo Barish – Taasher Deshe from Tekka Dhrubojyoti Chakraborty – Mon Kharaper Gaan from Oti Uttam Kaushik Ganguly – Keu Jaanbe Naa from Ajogyo Ranajoy Bhattacharjee – Tomay Chhere Jete from Tekka

Popular Awards

Most Popular Film	Most Popular Actor
Ajogyo – Surinder Films Alaap – Surinder Films Bohurupi – Windows Production Boomerang – Jeetz Filmworks & Grassroot Entertainment Eta Amader Golpo – Dhagaa Production Khadaan – Surinder Films & Dev Entertainment Ventures	Ankush Hazra – Mirza: Part 1 – Joker as Mirza Dev – Khadaan as Shyam Mahato / Madhu Mahato Jeet – Boomerang as Samar Sen / Amar Prosenjit Chatterjee – Ajogyo as Prosen Mitra Vikram Chatterjee – Pariah: Volume – I as Lubdhak Chatterjee

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Aparna Sen

Other awards

Most Promising Director
Abhinandan Banerjee – Manikbabur Megh Arna Mukhopadhyay – Athhoi Rajdeep Paul & Sarmistha Maiti – Mon Potongo Samik Roy Choudhury – Beline Soojit Dutta – Khadaan
Most Promising Actor (Male)
Gambhira Bhattacharya – Hubba Pratik Dutta – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole Sawon Chakraborty – Chaalchitra Ekhon 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

Superlatives

Multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
14	Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole
8	Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale
7	Manikbabur Megh, Padatik
6	Athhoi

References

^ ^a ^b Kanji, Subhasmita (4 January 2025). "খাদান-বহুরূপীকে টেক্কা দিয়ে WBFJA অ্যাওয়ার্ডসে সৃজিতের ছবির জয়জয়কার!". Hindustan Times (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 5 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
^ "9th Cinemar Samabartan To Take Place At Ajanta Circus". The Kolkata Mail. 3 January 2025. Archived from the original on 4 January 2025. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
^ "9th Edition Of 'Cinemar Samabartan 2025' To Remember Shri Raj Kapoor On His 100th Birth Anniversary". Financial Samachar. 5 January 2025. Archived from the original on 5 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.

[:0-1] Kanji, Subhasmita (4 January 2025). "খাদান-বহুরূপীকে টেক্কা দিয়ে WBFJA অ্যাওয়ার্ডসে সৃজিতের ছবির জয়জয়কার!". Hindustan Times (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 5 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.

[2] "9th Cinemar Samabartan To Take Place At Ajanta Circus". The Kolkata Mail. 3 January 2025. Archived from the original on 4 January 2025. Retrieved 4 January 2025.

[3] "9th Edition Of 'Cinemar Samabartan 2025' To Remember Shri Raj Kapoor On His 100th Birth Anniversary". Financial Samachar. 5 January 2025. Archived from the original on 5 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.

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