Madhuri Dixit has another feather added to her professional honours as she is selected this year for Raj Kapoor awards constituted by the Maharashtra government. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan announced her name at the side of Shyam Benegal.
Benegal will be conferred the Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award-2012 while Madhuri Dixit may be honoured with the Raj Kapoor Special Contribution Award-2012.
Other awarded from the Marathi film industry category include Leela Gandhi for the distinguished V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award and actor Dilip Prabhavalkar (seen as Mahatma Gandhi in ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’) for the V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award.
All the honourable awardees can be given a cash prize of Rs.200,000, a citation and a memento and will be conferred at a public function.
