“I feel an immense sense of happiness and honour in announcing that Waheeda Rehman ji is being bestowed with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award this year for her stellar contribution to Indian Cinema,”

Thakur wrote on the microblogging site.

 

The award for the year 2021 will be presented during the 69th National Film awards ceremony. The five-member jury comprised Rehman’s close friend and last year’s Dadasaheb award winner Asha Parekh, actors Chiranjeevi, Paresh

Rawal and Prosenjit Chatterjee as well as filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. Regarded as one of the finest actors of the country, Rehman, also an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer, made her debut in Hindi cinema with Guru Dutt’s “CID” opposite Dev Anand. After that dazzling beginning came a string of arthouse and mainstream films, the actor comfortably straddling the twin worlds of “Kaagaz ke Phool” and “Ram aur Shyam”.

 

The remarkable career spanning more than six decades and 90 films in different languages saw her segue from black and white to colour, and from lead roles to character cameos. Some of her most memorable performances were with Guru Dutt -- “Pyaasa”, “Kaagaz Ke Phool”, “Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam” and “Chaudhvin Ka Chand”. With Dev Anand came the much loved “Guide” and “Prem Pujari”.