Amitabh Bachchan To Receive The Highest Honour Of The Indian Film Industry – The Dadasaheb Phalke Award!
Amitabh Bachchan To Receive The Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Updated : September 25, 2019 08:57 AM IST
There is hardly any honor or accolade that Amitabh Bachchan has not received in the last 50 years that he has been a part of Bollywood. However, this year he is going to be felicitated with the highest honor in Indian cinema, the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday evening tweeted, “The legend Amitabh Bachchan, who entertained and inspired for two generations, has been selected unanimously for Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The entire country and the international community are happy. My heartiest congratulations to him.”
Take a look at the tweet –
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >The legend Amitabh Bachchan who entertained and inspired for 2 generations has been selected unanimously for #DadaSahabPhalke award. The entire country and international community is happy. My heartiest Congratulations to him.@narendramodi @SrBachchan pic.twitter.com/obzObHsbLk
— Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) September 24, 2019
Amitabh Bachchan’s son Abhishek Bachchan took to his official social media handle to share the news. He wrote, “Overjoyed and so, so proud. #Proudson”.
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undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Overjoyed and so, so proud! #ProudSon ? https://t.co/bDj4kNaVhS
— Abhishek Bachchan (@juniorbachchan) September 24, 2019
Karan Johar was amongst the first people to congratulate Mr. Bachchan. He tweeted, “The most inspiring legend of Indian Cinema!!!! He is a bonafide rock star!!! I am honored and proud to be in the Era of AMITABH BACHCHAN! The prestigious #DadaSahebPhalkeAward to @SrBachchan”
Take a look -
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >The most inspiring legend of Indian Cinema!!!! He is a bonafide rock star!!! I am honoured and proud to be in the Era of AMITABH BACHCHAN! The prestigious #DadaSahebPhalkeAward to @SrBachchan https://t.co/wPepdsbugL
— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) September 24, 2019
The Dadasaheb Phalke award is given in the memory of Dada Saheb Phalke who made India's first full-length feature film, Raja Harishchandra in 1913 and is often considered the 'father of Indian cinema'. It has earlier been awarded to Shashi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Lata Mangeshkar and Yash Chopra among others!