Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore will be honoured with the Excellence in Cinema India Award at the 19th edition of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival here.
“It feels very good. It is a peer group that has given me this award, so it feels very good and nice,” Sharmila told IANS on phone from Mumbai.
The actress and former Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) head will receive the honour at the opening ceremony of the festival, run by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), on October 12.
Sharmila Tagore To Be Honoured At MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Sharmila, 72, made her acting debut at the age of 13 when she began shooting for auteur Satyajit Ray’s “Apur Sansar” (World of Apu), the last in the celebrated Apu trilogy. The film was released on May 1, 1959.
Since then, audiences have seen the multiple National Award-winner transforms from film to film. Be it Tapan Sinha’s “Nirjan Saikate“, Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Anupama” or Shakti Samanta’s “Kashmir Ki Kali“, Sharmila’s repertoire h..

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