![]() I wish my father was here to receive this award. In the capital to receive the honour, he had stated, “We are really proud as a family. It had been a “bittersweet moment” for the family, Akshaye Khanna had shared regarding his late father being awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award posthumously. “We miss them today and we will miss them forever,” the President had tweeted in a message about Sridevi being this year’s winner of the Best Female Actor Award, and Vinod Khanna being conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his lifetime contribution. It was among the awards in the last 11 categories which were handed out by the President the previous sets of awards had been presented by Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani and other government officials. Akshaye, clad decorously in a suit, accompanied his step-mother to the podium to receive the honour bestowed on his father. It was touching to see the late actor Vinod Khanna’s wife Kavita Daftary Khanna and his son Akshaye Khanna come up to receive the late actor’s Dadasaheb Phalke award from President Ram Nath Kovind.
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