Kolkata, July 18 : Veteran actors Soumitra
Chatterjee, Mithun Chakraborty and Supriya Devi will be among 43 film
personalities who will be honoured by the West Bengal government July
24, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Wednesday. July 24 is the
death anniversary of legendary Bengali matinee idol Uttam Kumar.
Soumitra and Supriya will be given lifetime achievement awards. The awards will be part of the film awards instituted by the state government from this year, Banerjee said. Banerjee
said Bollywood hero Mithun Chakraborty will be given the Mahanayak
Samman, 2012, with Sabitri Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Anjana
Bhowmick, Sumita Sanyal, Mousumi Chatterjee and Lily Chakraborty being
among the actresses slated to receive special awards. Biswajit
Chattopadhyay, Tapas Pal, Prosenjit Chakraborty, Ranjit Mullick will be
among the actors who will receive the special awards. "In all 43
film personalities will be awarded. The number is large this time, as
nothing was done to honour them all these years," she said. © IANS |
