Superstar Rajinikanth might be honoured with the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar introduced on Thursday.
After Javadekar made the announcement on Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Rajinikanth with a tweet, “Congratulations Talaivar”. Soon Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu too, tweeted.
“Popular across generations, a body of work few can boast of, diverse roles and an endearing personality…that’s Shri @rajinikanth Ji for you. It is a matter of immense joy that Thalaiva has been conferred with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Congratulations to him,” Modi mentioned.
“Hearty congratulations to Shri @rajinikanth on being conferred the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Over the past many years, the versatile actor has been enthralling people by portraying a vast array of roles depicting myriad hues of human experience and emotions.#Rajinikanth,” mentioned Naidu and added: “My best wishes for the renowned thespian’s future endeavours! #Rajinikanth.”
Rajinikanth too thanked the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and the Government of India for the award.
Expressing his happiness, Rajinikanth posted, “Immensely humbled and honoured with your greetings and the most prestigious #DadasahebPhalkeAward award respected and dearest Shri
@narendramodi ji. My heartfelt thanks to you and the government of india” (sic)
Rajini is named Talaivar or “Style Mannan” within the Tamil film business.
Calling Rajinikanth “one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian cinema”, the I&B minister mentioned that the actor was being awarded for his contribution within the discipline of appearing, manufacturing and screenwriting for Indian cinema.
Posting an image of the actor, Javadekar wrote: “Happy to announce #Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2020 to one of the greatest actors in history of Indian cinema Rajnikant ji His contribution as actor, producer and screenwriter has been iconic I thank Jury @ashabhosle @SubhashGhai1 @Mohanlal @Shankar_Live #BiswajeetChatterjee.”
Widely considered one of the crucial fashionable cinematic icons in India, Rajinikanth has additionally been honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2000 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2016 by the Government of India.
Rajinikanth, who enjoys a demigod standing, made his debut in Tamil cinema with “Apoorva Raagangal”. Among his quite a few hits are movies like “Baashha”, “Sivaji” and “Enthiran”. He is named Thalaivar or chief by his followers.
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India’s highest honour in cinema. It is introduced yearly on the National Film Awards by Directorate of Film Festivals of the Information and Broadcasting ministry of the Government of India. The first recipient of the award was actress Devika Rani. Recent recipients embrace Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, filmmaker Ok.Vishwanath and Manoj Kumar.
The Dada Saheb Phalke award jury consists of Malayalam tremendous star Mohanlal and Tamil music composer and singer, Shankar Mahadevan, moreover veteran singer Asha Bhosle, and moviemaker Subhash Ghai.
Actor-turned-politician, Kamal Haasan additionally congratulated Rajinikanth.
Tamil Nadu villages and cities bursted with pleasure on the announcement of Rajini’s feat. People took to streets and tons of reached Poes Garden residence.
At Salem individuals celebrated Rajini’s Phalke win by distributing sweets and lighting crackers.
Manonmani G., a homemaker from Salem instructed IANS: “Rajini deserves the award. He is the greatest actor of Indian cinema and this award becomes great after Rajini has won it. I still remember each and every dialogue of his epoch movies “Basha”, “Padayappa” and others.
The Information and Broadcasting minister when asked whether this award was given to Rajinikanth to influence Tamil Nadu elections, Javadekar said: “This is by no means associated to Tamil Nadu elections”.
Congratulatory messages are pouring in from political leaders, actors, directors and social workers, besides people from all walks of life.
