51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award

25 Oct 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award

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Legendary actor Rajnikanth was honoured with the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the 67th National Film Awards ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu conferred the prestigious award upon the actor for his outstanding contribution to the world of Indian cinema.
Superstar Rajinikanth dedicated his Dadasaheb Phalke Award to his teacher K Balachander, brother Sathyanarayana Rao Gaekwad, friend Raj Bahadhur, to all film fraternity, producers, directors, technicians, co-artists, distributors, theatre owners and to his fans & Tamil people.
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2019 was supposed to be announced last year along with the 2019 National Film Awards but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar had informed through a tweet on April 1, 2021 that the Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2019 will be awarded to one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian cinema Rajnikant.
He continued by saying Rajnikanth’s “contribution as actor, producer and screenwriter has been iconic.”
A mega jury comprising iconic playback singer Asha Bhosle, Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, music composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan, veteran actor Biswajeet Chatterjee and director-producer Subhash Ghai had decided the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2019.

The 50th Dadasaheb Phalke Award was conferred upon another Legendary Indian actor-Amitabh Bachchan for his immense contribution to Indian cinema.
The megastar had shared screen space with Rajinikanth in the 1991 action-drama film ‘Hum’.