Veteran Marathi and Hindi film actress Sarla Yevlekar, was conferred with Life Time achievement award by the Dadasaheb Phalke Marathi Sanskrutik karya Trust, yesterday evening in Mumbai. The award was presented to her by Mr. Kiran Shantaram and Maharashtra Cultural Minister Mr. Vinod Tawde, in presence of many dignitaries from the Marathi film industry and special invitees.

Overwhelmed by this gesture, Sarla Yevlekar thanked the organisers, for selecting her for this award. She also thanked the cultural minister, for his presence and Mr. Kiran Shantaram, for personally presenting this award to her. She talked about her memories and association with late film maker V.Shantaram, father of Mr. Kiran Shantaram. Incidentally, Sarla Yevlekar was part of V.Shantaram’s film ‘Pinjara’.

Dadasaheb Phalke Trust which is headed by Ad. Mohanrao Pingale & Deepali Syed had organised this award event, which is in its third year. Apart from giving awards to the artistes and film makers, they also felicitate technicians and workers in Marathi film industry. The best film award went to ‘Candle March’. Ankush Choudhari and Sumeet Raghavan shared the best actor’s award, while Sonali Kulkarni ( Sr.) received the best actress award. Paresh Mokashi was awarded the best director’s trophy.

Among the other award winners in other categories were, Makarand Anaspure, Varsha Usgaonkar, Prarthana Behere, Aroh Velankar, Pushkar Shrotri, Usha Naik , Sharad kelkar Janhavi Prabhu Arora, Shrikant Bojewar, Guru Thakur, Ajay Atul, Prasad Bhende, Umesh Jadhav & others. The ‘Shramashreya’ awards were presented to Arun Pillai, Balu Kamble, Madhukar Choughule, Vilas Salokhe & Spot Dada Bbalasaheb. Youngsters Siddharth Chandekar & Mrunmayee Deshpande anchored the show, in which besides the awards, some skits and dance items were also presented by Marathi celebrities. Swapni Joshi & Sachit Patil promoted their forthcoming film on this occasion, while Rakesh Bapat & Vaidehi Parshurami performed a dance together, to promote their forthcoming film.