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| Dilip Kumar Honored With Hindi Cinema Mahanayak Samman |
New Delhi: The most
prestigious newly constituted first ever National Award for extra ordinary contribution
to Hindi Cinema - Hindi Cinema Mahanayak Samman was announced for legendry and
most popular cine star Dilip Kumar on the occasion of third day of 10th
Global Film Festival at Vigyan Bhawan.
Vijay Goel Minister for
State Parliamentary Affairs and Statistical Implementation Government of India
handed over the award to CINTAA General Secretary Sushant Singh to be presented
over to Dilip Kumar at Mumbai who could not make it because of his ill health.
Hindi Cinema Samman Samaroh
Committee Chairman Shatrughan Sinha, International Chamber of Media And
Entertainment Industry’s President Sandeep Marwah, renowned film star Jackie
Shroff, T.P.Agarwal President Indian Motion Picture And Television Producers
Association and FWICE President B.N.Tewari were also present there.
Dilip Kumar is an Indian film actor, producer, screenwriter,
and activist, known for his work in Hindi cinema. Also
known as the Tragedy King, he
is credited with bringing realism to film acting since his first film which was
released in 1944 informed Ashok Tyagi Secretary General of ICMEI.
He is considered one of the greatest and most
influential actors of all time. He has been described as "the ultimate method actor" by Satyajit Ray. Dilip Kumar
was one of the biggest Indian movie stars, and a
pioneer of method acting, predating Hollywood method
actors such as Marlon
Brando.
