After 2 Decades, Asha Parekh Is The 7th Female To Receive The Dadasaheb Phalke Award

After 2 decades, Asha Parekh is the 7^thfemale to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced that the DadasahebPhalke Award for the year 2020 will be given to veteran Hindi film actress-director-producer Asha Parekh. The award will be presented at the National Film Awards ceremony in New Delhi. Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur took to his Twitter to announce the honor for the actress.

Honoured to announce that the Dadasaheb Phalke Selection Jury has decided to recognise & award Smt Asha Parekh ji for her exemplary lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award shall be presented by the Hon President of India at
68th NFA in Vigyan Bhawan. pic.twitter.com/3MPa0HhvDL

— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) September 27, 2022

Asha Parekh

Indian actress

Born: 2 October 1942 (age 79 years), Mumbai
Parents: Sudha Parekh, Bachubhai Parekh
Height: 1.61 m
Books: Asha Parekh: The Hit Girl
Nationality: Indian
Awards: Padma Shri, Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, MORE

79-year-old Parekh will receive the award from President Draupadi Murmu at the 68th National Film Awards on September 30. This is great news for Hindi cinema. Looking at Asha Parekh’s acting, beauty, style, and roles in films, there is no doubt that she deserves this honour. But it is a matter of greater happiness that this honor is being given to an actress after a long time. Yes, after about 22 years, a woman is getting this honor.

She is the second woman after Asha Bhosle to receive the award since the early 2000s. Devika Rani was the first to receive it in 1969, despite the limited representation of women in the roster of award winners. Other lucky women were Ruby Myers (Sulochana)in 1973, Kanan Devi (1976), Durga Khote (1983), and Lata Mangeshkar (1989).

List of Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winners Year-Wise

Last time Kollywood superstar Rajinikanth was honored with the 51st Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 2019.

2019 (67th) – Rajnikanth
2018 (66th) – Amitabh Bachchan
2017 (65th) – Vinod Khanna
2016 (64th) – Kasinathuni Viswanath
2015 (63rd) – Manoj Kumar
2014 (62nd) – Shashi Kapoor
2013 (61st) – Gulzar
2012 (60th) – Pran
2011 (59th) – Soumitra Chatterjee
2010 (58th) – K. Balachander
2009 (57th) – D. Ramanaidu
2008 (56th) – V. K. Murthy
2007(55th) – Manna Dey
2006 (54th) – Tapan Sinha
2005 (53rd) – Shyam Benegal
2004 (52nd) – Adoor Gopalakrishnan
2003 (51st) – Mrinal Sen
2002 (50th) – Dev Anand
2001 (49th) – Yash Chopra
2000 (48th) – Asha Bhosle
1999 (47th) – Hrishikesh Mukherjee
1998 (46th) – B. R. Chopra
1997 (45th) – Kavi Pradeep
1996 (44th) – Sivaji Ganesan
1995 (43rd) – Rajkumar
1994 (42nd) – Dilip Kumar
1993 (41st) – Majrooh Sultanpuri
1992 (40th) – Bhupen Hazarika
1991 (39th) – Bhalji Pendharkar
1990 (38th) – Akkineni Nageswara Rao
1989 (37th) – Lata Mangeshkar
1988 (36th) – Ashok Kumar
1987 (35th) – Raj Kapoor
1986 (34th) – B. Nagi Reddy
1985 (33rd) – V. Shantaram
1984 (32nd) – Satyajit Ray
1983 (31st) – Durga Khote
1982 (30th) – L. V. Prasad
1981 (29th) – Naushad
1980 (28th) – Paidi Jairaj
1979 (27th) – Sohrab Modi
1978 (26th) – Raichand Boral
1977 (25th) – Nitin Bose
1976 (24th) – Kanan Devi
1975 (23rd) – Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
1974 (22nd) – Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy
1973 (21st) – Ruby Myers (Sulochana)
1972 (20th) – Pankaj Mullick
1971 (19th) – Prithviraj Kapoor
1970 (18th) – Birendranath Sircar
1969 (17th) – Devika Rani

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After 2 decades, Asha Parekh is the 7th female to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award