Amitabh Bachchan with Nagarjuna Akkineni and ANR National Award recipient Chiranjeevi. (Image: Annapurna Studios/X)
Bollywood’s Shahenshah Amitabh Bachchan presented the ANR National Award to Telugu megastar Chiranjeevi astatine a expansive ceremony successful Hyderabad connected Monday. Speaking connected the occasion, Bachchan remarked that helium could present telephone himself a “member of the Telugu movie industry.” He besides paid tribute to legendary Telugu actor-producer Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1923-2014), successful whose honour the ANR National Award was instituted by the Akkineni International Foundation, and commended his successors for upholding his legacy.
“I privation to explicit my gratitude to Nag (Nageswara Rao’s lad and histrion Nagarjuna Akkineni), the foundation, and the full household for bringing to beingness a colossus that we person had the privilege to observe connected this world of Telugu cinema and so the full movie industry. He has fixed america truthful overmuch happiness, joy, entertainment, and culture. It is precise hard for anyone to basal present and lucifer his (ANR’s) publication to Indian cinema,” helium said.
Lauding Nagarjuna and his household for surviving up to ANR’s legacy, Amitabh Bachchan shared a fewer lines from a poem written by his begetter Harivansh Rai Bachchan. “In it, helium speaks of however his friends archer him helium indispensable constitute a volition stating what helium plans to permission for his sons, arsenic nowadays a lad often needs to spell to tribunal to beryllium helium is his father’s son.”
“My begetter past says, ‘I haven’t been capable to permission immoderate worldly wealth—no wealth oregon thing for my sons. I constitute poetry. I person written immoderate words, and these manuscripts are what I have. I anticipation they volition beryllium looked aft with respect. But the enactment from it that I privation to stock with you contiguous is, ‘Mere bete, bete hone se specified uttaradhikari nahi honge. Jo specified uttaradhikari honge, woh specified bete honge‘ (My sons, conscionable due to the fact that you are my sons does not mean you volition beryllium my inheritors. Those who are my inheritors volition beryllium my sons).’ Nag, you and your household person proven that you are the existent inheritors of this large personality,” helium added.
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Amitabh Bachchan besides expressed his heavy affection for his “dear friend” Chiranjeevi. “He has been specified a beloved friend; whenever I inquire him for anything, he’s ever there. Thank you, Chiranjeevi garu, for each you person done for me, including giving maine a portion successful your movie Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy. Thanks to Nagarjuna arsenic good for giving maine a portion successful your movie Manam. And acknowledgment to manager Nag Ashwin and Vyjayanthi Movies (for Kalki 2898 AD), I tin present proudly accidental that I americium a subordinate of the Telugu movie industry,” helium concluded, amidst thunderous applause and cheers.