Do you know why Asha Bhosle did not accept the Filmfare Award and O.P. Nayyar had accepted it, and what did he do with that award?

The Filmfare Award is one of the most prestigious awards of the Hindi film industry and is on par with Hollywood’s Oscar Awards. Though the Filmfare Awards is one of the most sought after, famous, and prominent, many actors have refused the award for various reasons. There is one such interesting anecdote. Why was the award refused?

 

Asha’s Snub & O.P. Nayyar’s Shocking Reaction

O.P. Nayyar was responsible solely for the success of Asha Bhosle as the playback singer in the film industry. He was the also the only music director in the film industry that never gave Lata Mangeshkar any songs to sing. He only gave preference to Asha Bhosle, and thus he gave her a chance to sing for his every film, and she rose to become a well-known singer, almost in par with Lata Mangeshkar.

 

Asha Bhosle and O.P Nayyar worked together for almost
15 years and during these 15 years, they also developed a relationship with
each other,  which the film journalists
blew out of proportion by writing lot of fake news about the two to fill their
gossip columns.

 

In the early 70’s,  Asha Bhosle also got very close to R.D. Burman
And they both fell in love. That is when she ignored or rather dumped, O.P
Nayyar married R.D. Burman after a couple of years.

 

O.P Nayyar was very hurt but he kept quiet about the
whole thing and midst of this separation, the song, ‘humko kabhi aapne jeene na
Diya, from the film ‘Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye,’ became a super hit song. The
song was sung by Asha Bhosle. This song
till date is very popular and is in the list of Asha Bhosle’s top ten songs
that she has sung. 

 

Asha Bhosle didn’t like the song and had it removed from the film. However, the song was already a hit on radio. Though it’s not in the film, it remained popular on radio broadcasts.

 

The song was a huge hit. Asha Bhosle won the Best Female Singer award for it. But an angry Asha who hated the song refused her
award. She did not come up to receive the award. O.P. Nayyar received the trophy on Asha Bhosle’s behalf, but he was furious. Instead of giving it to her, he threw the trophy out of his car window.