ANR National Award

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ANR National Award
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Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Awarded forLifetime achievement and contribution to the Indian cinema
Country India
Presented byAkkineni International Foundation
First award2005
Final award2024
Website Official website

The ANR National Award is instituted by the Akkineni International Foundation in the honor of Akkineni Nageswara Rao. [1] The award was given annually to recognize people for their lifetime achievements and contributions to the Indian film industry. [2] [3] ANR National Award was first awarded to actor Dev Anand in 2005. [4]

Contents

List of recipients

YearPresented dateRecipientNotes
20052006 Dev Anand [5]
200613 January 2007 Shabana Azmi [6] [7]
200713 January 2008 Anjali Devi [8]
200810 January 2009 Vyjayanthimala [9] [10]
2009 Lata Mangeshkar
201011 January 2011 K. Balachander [11]
201126 December 2011 Hema Malini [12]
201227 January 2013 Shyam Benegal [13]
201427 December 2014 Amitabh Bachchan [14]
201717 September 2017 S. S. Rajamouli [15]
201817 November 2019 Sridevi [a] [16]
2019 Rekha [17]
202428 October 2024 Chiranjeevi [18] [19]

See also

Notes

  1. The award was posthumously given in November 2019 alongside Rekha. It was received by her husband Boney Kapoor.

References

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  2. "Archive News". The Hindu . 2006-01-20. Archived from the original on 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  3. ":: Welcome to ANNAPURNA STUDIOS ::". Archived from the original on 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
  4. "Dev Anand was first recipient of ANR award". The Times of India. 2014-12-21. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  5. "Devanand visits Annapurna studios - photos - Telugu Cinema". www.idlebrain.com. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  6. "ANR award presentation to Shabana Azmi - Telugu cinema". www.idlebrain.com. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  7. "Shabana Azmi honored with 2007 ANR award". www.ragalahari.com. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  8. "ANR award presented to Anjali Devi - Telugu cinema function - Sekhar Kammula". www.idlebrain.com. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  9. "Vyjayanthimala bags ANR award". The Times of India. 2008-12-01. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  10. "ANR award presented to Dr. Vyjayanthimala Bali - Telugu cinema". www.idlebrain.com. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  11. "ANR award to K Balachandar". The New Indian Express. 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  12. "7th ANR National Award Presentation to Hema Malini". www.ndtv.com. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  13. Service, Express News (2013-01-03). "Benegal to receive the ANR National award". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  14. "Amitabh Bachchan chosen for ANR national award". The Hindu. 2014-12-21. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  15. "SS Rajamouli receives ANR award: You are Baahubali, says Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu". India Today. 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  16. Deshpande, Abhinay (2019-11-17). "Boney Kapoor gets emotional while accepting ANR Award for Sridevi". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  17. "Rekha honoured with ANR award: 'Watch what you feed your brain,' says the actress". 17 November 2019. Archived from the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  18. Dundoo, Sangeetha Devi (2024-10-27). "Nagarjuna Akkineni: My father believed in cinema as entertainment, and Chiranjeevi's work is an affirmation of that". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  19. "Megastar Chiranjeevi to receive ANR National award; Big B to present it - idlebrain.com". www.idlebrain.com. Retrieved 2024-10-28.