Shababna dedicates her award to Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Jan 13 (UNI) Noted actor and Social activist Shabna Azmi tonight dedicated her coveted Akkineni Nageswara Rao Award to this city of great culture, as also to the thousands of film technicians, who work behind the scene.

''I was born in this great city of Nawabs. It was here that my father fell in love with my mother, who herself was a Hyderabadi. I owe a lot to the city,'' she said after receiving the Akkineni Nageswra Rao Award.

''I have won many awards. But I value this award very much as the award came from the film fraternity''. She also dedicated the award to thousands of film technicians including light boys, who had covered up her weaknesses and polished her strength.

She said she drew inspiration from the Union Minister Meira Kumar, who had been working for the upliftment of the poor people.

She also thanked the Union Minister of State for Mines T Subba Rami Reddy for rendering great help in the Rajya Sabha in discharging her duties.

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