Overview

• The Information and Broadcasting Ministry confirmed the lifetime-achievement honour, to be presented at the 71st National Film Awards in New Delhi on September 23.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Mohanlal’s excellence and versatility, and the actor said he was deeply humbled and grateful for the recognition.
• Industry peers including Mammootty, Prithviraj Sukumaran and Akshay Kumar shared public congratulations as tributes continued over the weekend.
• Mohanlal’s four-decade career spans hundreds of films across Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi, with multiple National Film Awards and the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan among his honours.
• He is the second Malayalam cinema figure to receive the accolade after Adoor Gopalakrishnan in 2004, following last year’s recipient Mithun Chakraborty.