Filmfare

Filmfare

Cover of the April 2021 issue
Editor	Jitesh Pillai
Former editors	B. K. Karanjia Rauf Ahmed Bikram Singh Pritish Nandy Khalid Mohamed Shashi Baliga
Categories	Entertainment
Frequency	Fortnightly
Circulation	342,000[1]
Publisher	Joji Varghese
Founder	J. C. Jain
Founded	1952
Company	Worldwide Media
Country	India
Based in	Mumbai
Language	English
Website	filmfare.com
ISSN	0971-7277
OCLC	1774328

Filmfare is an Indian English-language fortnightly magazine published by Worldwide Media. Acknowledged as one of India's most popular entertainment magazines, it publishes pieces involving news, interviews, photos, videos, reviews, events, and style. The magazine also annually gives the Filmfare Awards, the Filmfare Awards South, the Filmfare Awards East, the Filmfare Marathi Awards, the Filmfare Awards Punjabi, the Filmfare Awards Bangla, the Filmfare OTT Awards, the Filmfare Short Film Awards and the Filmfare Style & Glamour Awards.

After the businessman Ramkrishna Dalmia (1893–1978) of Dalmia Group purchased Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL) in 1946, J. C. Jain from Bharat Insurance Company was employed to help him in running the company in 1950. In this period, Jain conceived the idea of Filmfare at the actress Kamini Kaushal's house. The magazine was launched by the industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain alongside his wife Rama in Bombay on 7 March 1952. Its circulation started to decline in the early 1990s and to handle these problems, Filmfare started special monthly editions for Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam cinema. In 2004, BCCL (who previously published the magazine) established a subsidiary, Worldwide Media, for publishing its future issues.