After bagging the iconic Sridevi Award at Zee Apsara Awards, actress Tamannaah Bhatia will receive the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award for her outstanding performance in the blockbuster Baahubali: The Beginning.
The award will also being conferred upon actress Anushka Sharma for her innings as a producer and actor Ranveer Singh for Padmaavat by the Mumbai-based Dadasaheb Phalke Foundation on April 21 here. The award is given to various individuals from the entertainment industry for their outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema.
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Tamannaah said in a statement, “I’ve grown up knowing what immense involvement Dadasaheb Phalke had enjoyed in Indian cinema. It’s such an honour to be conferred an award from the foundation.”
Not only Tamannaah, but Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh will also be honoured.
While Ranveer will get the Best Actor award for his outstanding performance as Allaudin Khilji in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat, Anushka will be awarded on the basis of her successful movies as a producer. Given that her three home productions (NH10, Phillauri and more recently, Pari) of Clean Slate Films have won applause from critics and movie buffs, we totally think she deserves this award.
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Coming back to Tamannaah, she is currently working on Telugu film Naa Nuvve and the Telugu remake of Bollywood film Queen, which starred Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao. While the Hindi film was directed by Vikas Bahl, the Telugu remake is being helmed by Neelakanta Reddy.
Talking about the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, it is India’s highest award in cinema.
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It is presented every year at the the National Film Awards ceremony. The award is given to the people for their extra-ordinary contribution to Indian cinema. The recipient is is selected by a committee consisting of eminent personalities from the Indian film industry. The first award was presented in 1969 to Devika Rani. Prithviraj Kapoor, Satyajit Ray, Lata Mangeshkar, Dilip Kumar, Asha Bhosale, BR Chopra, Dev Anand, Shyam Benegal are some of the eminent people who have won this award.