Moushumi gets BFJA lifetime achievement award

Veteran actor Moushumi Chatterjee has received the lifetime achievement award, while actor Ashish Vidyarthi was honoured for his contribution to Indian Cinema at the 80th Bengal Film Journalists' Association (BFJA) awards. A galaxy of seasoned directors – Kaushik Ganguly ("Cinemawala" – 2016), Shiboprasad Mukherjee-Nandita Roy ("Belaseshe" – 2015), Aniruddha Roychowdhury ("Buno Haans" 2014), Srijit Mukherjee ("Rajkahini" –2015) and Goutam Ghosh ("Sankhachil" – 2015) – were honoured with best direction trophies for their works at a function here last night. "With the BFJA award not taking place in the past couple of years we included all the representative works during the time (2014-16)," a BFJA spokesman said promising that the award will be an annual occasion from now on.