Punjab, Sept. 16 -- Veteran actor Anant Nag has been named for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Indian cinema's highest honour. The announcement came on Wednesday, and the award will be presented at the 72nd National Film Awards ceremony in Ekta Nagar, Kevadia, Gujarat, on 22 September. The Prime Minister congratulated him.
Why this one lands differently
Nag's career sits almost entirely inside Kannada cinema, across a span most actors do not get. He came up through the parallel cinema movement of the 1970s and stayed working through every commercial cycle that followed - which is a rarer achievement than a run of hits.
The Phalke has often gone to figures whose work is nationally familiar through Hindi film. Going to an actor whose body of w...