Anant Nag is an actor and politician from Karnataka, India. He is considered to be one of the all time greatest actors in the Kannada film industry with a vast number of commercially successful movies. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with no-failures, by critics.
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President Droupadi Murmu handed the lifetime honour to the veteran Kannada star as the ceremony shifted from Delhi to Ekta Nagar, with Malayalam talent also making a strong showing.
The 72nd National Film Awards shifted to Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, where President Droupadi Murmu handed out the Dadasaheb Phalke honour to Anant Nag and celebrated Mammootty, Yami Gautam, Kartik Aaryan and others for their standout performances.
For the first time in its history, the National Film Awards ceremony has moved out of Delhi, landing at Ekta Nagar in Gujarat with President Murmu presiding and Anant Nag receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke honour.
The 72nd National Film Awards moved outside Delhi for the first time, to Kevadia's Statue of Unity, where Kartik Aaryan and Mammootty split Best Actor and Yami Gautam won Best Actress.
Anant Nag will collect the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024 at the 72nd National Film Awards on September 22, recognising five decades of work spanning parallel cinema, commercial hits and television.
Anant Nag will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024 at the National Film Awards ceremony in Gujarat on September 22, making him only the second Kannada actor to win it after Dr Rajkumar in 1995.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Anant Nag's five-decade career after the Kannada actor was named for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2024, ahead of the September 22 ceremony in Gujarat.
Anant Nag, star of Hamsageethe, Ankur and Manthan, has been named this year's Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient, the government announced Wednesday, months after he was also named a Padma awardee from Karnataka.