Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Yash Chopra felicitated with National Kishore Kumar Award

The most personified filmmaker Yash Chopra has been honoured with the National Kishore Kumar award by the Madhya Pradesh government for the year 2009-10. State Cultural Minister Laxmikant Sharma gave away the award at a ceremony held at late actor-singer Kishore Kumar's birthplace Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh Octtober 13 which also happened to be his 23rd death anniversary.

Yash Chopra felicitated with National Kishore Kumar Award
Yash Chopra, who made movies like Waqt, Deewaar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Dil To Pagal Hai and Veer-Zaara to his credit, was feeling very happy at receiving this award. The Kishore Kumar award, given in fields of direction, acting, script writing and lyrics every year, was instituted by the Madhya Pradesh government in 1997. Bollywood celebrities like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, Shyam Benegal and Amitabh Bachchan had received the same award before.

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