•Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty was named recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the government’s highest recognition in the field of cinema.
•Mr. Chakraborty is also a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
•Mr. Chakraborty bagged the National Film Award for Best Actor in his first film, Mrigayaa(1976), portraying a Santhal rebel.
•Later, he won two more National Film Awards for his work in Tahader Katha (1992) and Swami Vivekananda(1998).
•“Over his extensive career, Mithun has acted in more than 350 films across various Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, and Telugu.
•He was recently conferred the Padma Bhushan.