Sivaji Ganesan receives the Dadasaheb Phalke Award
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Sivaji Ganesan received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the top film honour in India.
Sivaji Ganesan, a towering figure in Tamil cinema ever since Parasakthi (1952), was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1997, India's foremost film honour, as the 1996 award. Two years before, in 1995, France had named him Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a distinction no Indian actor had received before him. In 1960 he had been named best actor at the Afro-Asian Film Festival in Cairo, and he also sat in the Rajya Sabha.
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