Amitabh Bachchan To Be Honoured With Dadasaheb Phalke Award; Bollywood Celebrates

Amitabh Bachchan has been actively working in the Bollywood industry for around 50 years. In these 50 years, he has been honoured with so many awards for his impeccable work. Now the megastar is all set to be honoured with the most prestigious awards of the Indian film industry and that is Dada Saheb Phalke award.

Union Minister of I&B, Prakash Javedkar took to Twitter and made the announcement. He wrote, “The legend Amitabh Bachchan, who entertained and inspired for two generations, has been selected unanimously for Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The entire country and international community is happy. My heartiest congratulations to him.”

Many stars from film fraternity like Karan Johar, Anil Kapoor, Rajinikanth and others also took to the microblogging site to congratulate him.

“Congratulations dear Amitabh Bachchan ji. You richly deserve this commendable honour.” tweeted Rajinikanth.

Karan Johar’s tweet read as, “The most inspiring legend of Indian cinema! He is a bona-fide rockstar! I am honoured and proud to be in the era of Amitabh Bachchan. The prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award to Amitabh Bachchan!”