Veteran actor Waheeda Rehman can be honoured with this 12 months’s Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the best recognition within the subject of Indian cinema, Union Minister for Data and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur mentioned on Tuesday.
Regarded one in all India’s most interesting actors, Rehman is greatest recognized for movies together with Pyaasa, CID, Information, Kaagaz Ke Phool, Khamoshi and Trishul.
Thakur took to his official X account to make the announcement.
“I really feel an immense sense of happiness and honour in saying that Waheeda Rehman ji is being bestowed with the celebrated Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award this 12 months for her stellar contribution to Indian Cinema,” the minister wrote.
Rehman, 85, made her performing debut with the 1955 Telugu movies Rojulu Maraayi and Jayasimha. She made her Hindi cinema debut with CID, the 1956 movie headlined by Dev Anand.
In a profession spanning over 5 many years, the legendary actor has labored in additional than 90 movies throughout languages. She acquired a Nationwide Movie Award for her function as a clanswoman in Reshma and Shera (1971). She is already the recipient of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.
“At a time when the historic Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam has been handed by Parliament, her being awarded with this lifetime achievement award is a becoming tribute to one of many main women of Indian Cinema and one who has devoted her life after movies to philanthropy and the higher good of society. I congratulate her and humbly pay my regards to her wealthy physique of labor that’s an intrinsic a part of our movie historical past,” Thakur additional mentioned in his submit on the microblogging website.
Rehman was final seen in Skater Woman, a 2021 coming-of-age sports activities drama.
