The Veteran Bollywood actress Rekha to be honoured with Yash Chopra Memorial Award for the year 2015. She is third recipient of this award. The award has been given by TSR Foundation of T Subbrami Reddy. The actress will be given the honour on February 2016 by the Governor of Maharashtra in Mumbai.
Yash Chopra Memorial Award:
- This award is given on remembrance of producer-director Yash chopra, who died in 2012.
- The Foundation annually honours a distinguished senior film personality for outstanding contribution to film industry.
- They will reward with a Gold Medal and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh.
- This year jury members were Hema Malini, Jaya Prada, Simi Garewal, Boney Kapoor, Pam Chopra and Reddy.
- Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has been honoured with the first Yash Chopra Memorial Award.
- Amitabh Bachchan was conferred with the Second Yash Chopra Memorial Award.
Who is Rekha?
- Rekha is an Indian film actress born in Tamil Nadu, appeared in many languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil etc.
- She has acted in over 180 films in a career spanning over 40 years
- She has won Filmfare awards, National awards, Padmashri award etc.
- She has been nominated as a Rajya Sabha member and currently she is a member of Rajya Sabha.
