Venkaiah Naidu to give away 2019 National Awards, Dadasaheb Phalke honour to Big B
New
Delhi,
Dec
21:
Vice
President
Venkaiah
Naidu
will
present
the
National
Film
Award
to
the
winners
on
Monday.
The
annual
National
Film
Awards
ceremony
will
be
held
at
Vigyan
Bhawan
where
megastar
Amitabh
Bachchan
will
also
receive
the
Dadasaheb
Phalke
award.
Union
Minister
for
Information
and
Broadcasting
Prakash
Javadekar
will
be
attending
the
ceremony,
a
press
release
said.
Traditionally, the National Awards are handed out to the winners by the President of India.
According to sources, President Ram Nath Kovind will host high tea for the winners later.
In 2018, President Kovind had presented only a handful few set of awards during the ceremony which was divided into two phases.
The first set of awards were conferred by Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, while the President presented the second lot.
The winners of 66th National Film Awards were announced in August this year with Gujarati film "Hellaro" bagging the Best Film honour.
Vicky Kaushal and Ayushmann Khuranna jointly won the Best Actor trophy for their performances in "Uri: The Surgical Strike" and "Andhadhun", respectively. Keerthy Suresh won the Best Actress award for her role in Telugu movie "Mahanati". Aditya Dhar of "Uri" won the Best Director award.