MUMBAI: Bollywood legends filmmaker Yash Chopra, Rajesh Khanna and Asha Bhosale will be honored with the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award which will be held on will be held on 30 April.

Bhosale will be presented with the Phalke Ratna Award for her contribution in the music field.

Khanna and Chopra will be given the award posthumously. On behalf of Yash Chopra his wife Pamela will receive the Saraswatibai Phalke Award.

On the other hand one of India’s most prominent actors Rajesh Khanna will be honored as the first superstar of Indian cinema. Khanna‘s wife and actress Dimple Kapadia will also be receiving the Phalke Ever Memorable actor award.

Also, in the list actor Akshay Kumar will receive the Best Actor award for ‘Rowdy Rathore’, Manoj Bajpai will get the Phalke Excellent Performance award for his work in ‘Gangs of Wasseyur’ and Irfan Khan will receive the Phalke Memorable Performance Award for Paan Singh Tomar. Govinda will be presented with the Phalke Versatile Actor award. Mala Sinha will be given the Phalke Icon Cine Artiste Award and Prem Chopra will be presented with the Phalke senior actor (negative role) Award while Newcomer Arjun Kapoor will be given with Phalke Debut Actor Award. Music composer-singer-actor Himesh Reshamiya will be presented with the Phalke Best Supporting Actor Award for Khiladi 786.