Well Known senior film journalist Dilip Thakur was among the ten renowned personalities from different fields in Mumbai, who were conferred with Pratibha Sanman Puraskar recently, at Prabodhankar Thackeray Mini Theatre in Borivali.

Dilip Thakur was presented with this award for his contribution to Film Journalism, especially in Marathi media for the past 44 years, beginning fron Newspaper Nava Shakti.

After taking early retirement fron NavaShakti, Dilip worked as a freelance Film Journalist more effectively and is today considered to be the most knowledgeble film Journalist. He has written about 50 books on Film industry and film artistes. In his small and effective speech, he thanked the organisers for selecting him for this award and also all those who motivated him in his journey in film industry.

Organised by Mr. Girish Vasant Trivedi , Editor of Aahuti Weekly and presented by Mr. Pradeep Malankar of Girgaon Katta, these Pratibha Sanmaan Puraskars were presented to ten renowned personalities in a well organised function very systematically with perfect Audio Visual presentation of each of the awardees and their work.

 Ms. Shubhada Varadkar, renowned Odissi Nrityaguru and recipient of this year’s Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, was the Chief guest for this function and presented the awards. Besides Dilip Thakur, the other award winners were, Nayana Rege ( Teaching Profession), Dr. Sarita Wakude ( Research Scholar), Narayan Pagdhare ( Newspaper / Magazine distributor from Borivali) ,Raju Desai ( Well Known Speaker on ShivCharitra),Yogesh Vasant Trivedi ( Aahuti Publication), Ravi Malya ( Writer), Shripad Rajguru ( Tabla artist), Anil Gurav ( Acting), Shekhar Waradkar (Promotion of the game of Cricket and Social work) & Ajay Tari( Multi talented Photographer).