Amitabh Bachchan,Rekha among stars honoured by President

Actors,directors and producers from the broad spectrum of Indian cinema from various languages were honoured on the occasion.

They include – veteran director Balachander,recipient of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award and composer M S Viswanathan (both Tamil),Amitabh Bachchan,Javed Akhtar,Rekha,Sridevi and Randhir Raj Kapoor (Hindi),Mammootty and Mohanlal (Malayalam),Ambariesh and Paravathamma Rajkumar (Kannada),K Vishwanath (Telugu),Ramesh Deo and Seema Deo (Marathi) and noted Bengali filmmakers,Aparna Sen and Gautam Ghosh.

Preeti Saproo (Punjabi),Utham Mahanthy (Odiya) and Bhojpuri star Manoj Tewari were also honoured by Mukherjee.

Earlier,an audio-visual with narration from noted actor Madhavan was played for the audience which highlighted scenes from some of the most memorable Indian movies besides talking about the matinee idols who had a huge fan following.

A special souvenir was also released on the occasion.