Dada Saheb Phalke Award, instituted by the Government of India in 1969, is awarded to outstanding actors, playback singers, music composers or directors associated with the world of cinema for their lifetime achievement in their respective fields. The award is named after Dada Saheb Phalke (1870-1944), the first Indian to make silent movies, hailed as the father of Indian Cinema. His silent film Raja Harishchandra was released on May 13, 1913.
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The first recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award was the veteran actress Devika Rani and the latest awardee was the director of Malayalam cinema, Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Some of the other prominent awardees have been Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Shivaji Ganesan, Satyajit Ray, V. Shanta Ram, Nagi Reddy and Lata Mangeshkar, to mention a few.
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