Govt honour for four film personalities

NEW DELHI: The government will give four eminent film personalities ��� Dilip Kumar, Tapan Sinha, Lata Mangeshkar and Saroja Devi ��� the 'one-time award for lifetime achievement' to commemorate the 60th anniversary of India's independence.
In the first of the conferments, Tapan Sinha, one of the all-time celluloid greats, would be presented the award in the field of film direction.
In view of Sinha's failing health, West Bengal governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi will confer the award at his residence in Kolkata.
The award citation underlines Tapan Sinha's "amazingly down-to-earth cinematic depiction of the struggles of the common man. His reputation as an uncompromising filmmaker, a celluloid iconoclast, puts him in a class of his own.
A storyteller par excellence, Tapan Sinha's films are well-crafted in terms of structure and technique, exhibiting his virtuosity and capability to handle a range of subjects with equal elan and sensitivity."