Finally the much awaited event has taken place. The government of Bengal gave away a galore of awards to various film personalities and this was led by the chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
 
Lifetime achievement awards were given away to Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabitri Chattopadhyay, Supriya Devi while the Mahanayak award for the year 2012 was given to Mithun Chakraborty.
 
The event took place yesterday remembering the death anniversary of Mahanayak Uttam Kumar and many other artists like Rituparna Sengupta, Indrani Halder and others were hailed.