Pran to receive this year’s Dadasaheb Phalke Award
13 April 2013 9:14 AM IST
The arch villain of Bollywood, Pran Krishan Sikand - or Pran as he is popularly known - was on Friday named for the Dadasaheb Phalke award. The actor turned 93 in February this year.
Confirming the news, a source from the Information & Broadcasting Ministry said: ‘Yes, he (Pran) is getting Dadasaheb Phalke award.’
Pran acted in over 400 movies in a career spanning over six decades and played a vast range of roles -- from a hero to a villain to a character artist.
He became a symbol of hatred after his portrayals of a bad guy in a series of films including hits like Madhumati, Ziddi and Ram Aur Shyam.
If he played a villain to the hilt, he was equally good when he stepped into character roles and won many hearts as loveable Mangal Chacha in Upkar, thoroughly entertained as street-smart fraud in Victoria No.203, and epitomised on-screen friendship in the role of a rough but kind Pathan in Zanjeer.
Confirming the news, a source from the Information & Broadcasting Ministry said: ‘Yes, he (Pran) is getting Dadasaheb Phalke award.’
Pran acted in over 400 movies in a career spanning over six decades and played a vast range of roles -- from a hero to a villain to a character artist.
He became a symbol of hatred after his portrayals of a bad guy in a series of films including hits like Madhumati, Ziddi and Ram Aur Shyam.
If he played a villain to the hilt, he was equally good when he stepped into character roles and won many hearts as loveable Mangal Chacha in Upkar, thoroughly entertained as street-smart fraud in Victoria No.203, and epitomised on-screen friendship in the role of a rough but kind Pathan in Zanjeer.
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