Rajnikanth will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2019, India’s highest film honour Union Minister Prakash Javdekar tweeted through his official twitter handle.
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2019 should have been announced last year but was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as were the National Film Awards for 2019. On the jury that selected Rajinikanth for the award were singers Asha Bhosle and Shankar Mahadevan, actors Mohanlal and Biswajeet, and filmmaker Subhash Ghai. Read Prakash Javadekar’s tweet here:
