Javed Akhtar gets Lifetime Achievement Award
(No Ratings Yet)Renowned lyricist-cum-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Indian cinema at the Ninth International Film Festival.
The festival is dedicated to filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee, who was known for his blend of populist and offbeat themes. He died last year.
‘I think to make films like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, you don’t only have to be a good director or a good writer, you have to be very good human being also. Only a good human being could make the films Hrishida made,’ said Akhtar.
The festival will showcase several landmark films of the versatile filmmaker such as ‘Anuradha’, ‘Golmal’ and ‘Anand’ among others.
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan and music composer Pyarelal Sharma were also honoured. Bachchan was declared Indian cinema’s global icon.
Pyarelal Sharma was honoured with the outstanding contribution to Indian Film Music Award.
‘I remember Laxmikant. Both of us would have got the award together. Still, I think we are together. But, I feel really good that I have got an award,’ Sharma said.
The duo composed music for several films, including ‘Dosti’, ‘Karz’ and ‘Tezaab’.
The festival is being organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images.
The festival will screen over 100 films from 32 countries. ‘The Namesake’, an Indian film based on a book of Pulitzer Prize winner, Jhumpa Lahiri, will be the closing film.
The week-long festival was opened here on Thursday amid a sea of glamour and glitz.
— ANI
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