Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad, Pune Branch, have announced this year’s ‘Mata Janaki Lifetime Achievement award’ to Ms. Sudha Abhyankar. A former actress, she is the mother of popular stage-TV and film actor Madhav Abhyankar.

The announcement of this award comes as a biggest gift from a mother to her son. “Today is my 50th Birthday and there cannot be a better gift than this news,” reacted Mr. Madhav Abhyankar, while speaking to MMW. Within an hour after Mr. Madhav Abhyankar disclosed this good news, hundreds of well wishers congratulated him on this occasion on his FB page.