Actor Amitabh Bachchan will be awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar has tweeted. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's most noteworthy honor in film.
Javadekar tweeted on Tuesday, "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."
The first beneficiary of the award was actress Devika Rani, who was regarded at the seventeenth National Film Awards. Starting at 2017, there have been 49 awardees. Among those, actor Prithviraj Kapoor (1971) and on-screen character Vinod Khanna (2017) are the posthumous recipients. Other conspicuous victors incorporate Manna Dey (2007), Shashi Kapoor (2014) and Shyam Benegal (2005).
Actor Anil Kapoor and movie producer Karan Johar were among the first to offer congrats to the star on Twitter, with many considering it a merited success.
Bachchan is known for basically and monetarily effective movies, and for being one of the most mainstream movie stars in the nation. He built up himself in the Hindi film industry with movies, for example, Zanjeer, Deewaar, and Sholay. All the more recently he has gotten praise for movies, for example, Pink, Paa, and Piku. He wandered into Hollywood with a supporting role in Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby. On TV, the actor is known for facilitating the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati.
The Government of India respected him with the Padma Shri in 1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015 for his commitments to expressions of the human experience. The Government of France respected him with its most astounding regular citizen respect, Knight of the Legion of Honor, in 2007.
