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The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's most elevated honor in silver screen. It is displayed yearly at the National Film Awards function by the Directorate of Film Festivals, an association set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The beneficiary is respected for their "exceptional commitment to the development and advancement of Indian silver screen" and is chosen by a council comprising of famous identities from the Indian film industry. Starting at , the honor contains a Swarna Kamal Golden Lotus emblem, a shawl, and a money prize of ₹1,000,000. To begin with displayed in 1969, the honor was presented by the Government of India to celebrate Dadasaheb Phalke's commitment to Indian silver screen.

Phalke 1870– 1944, who is famously referred to as and frequently viewed as "the father of Indian silver screen", was an Indian movie producer who coordinated India's first full-length include film, Raja Harishchandra 1913. The primary beneficiary of the honor was on-screen character Devika Rani, who was respected at the seventeenth National Film Awards. Starting at , there have been 49 awardees.

Among those, performing artist Prithviraj Kapoor 1971 and on-screen character Vinod Khanna are the main after death beneficiaries. His on-screen character producer child, Raj Kapoor, acknowledged the honor for his sake at the nineteenth National Film Awards in 1971 and was himself a beneficiary in 1987 at the 35th National Film Awards service. Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy 1974 and Bommireddy Nagi Reddy 1986; Raj Kapoor 1987 and Shashi Kapoor 2014; Lata Mangeshkar 1989 and Asha Bhosle 2000 alongside Baldev Raj Chopra 1998 and Yash Chopra 2001 are the kin who have won the honor.

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