Ronnie Rodrigues, Deepak Parashar, Deepak Tijori, Alankrita Sahai etc, honoured at recent Dadasaheb Phalke ChitraNagari (FC) Awards 2024 convened by Raju Tank by Chaitanya Padukone

 Various events have been organized by Marathi and Hindi Cinema fans clubs and groups to celebrate legendary ‘Father of  Indian Cinema‘ Dadasaheb Dhundiraj Govind Phalke’s 154th  anniversary ( April 30th) On April 27th  the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitra Nagari (Film City) Awards were organized and convened at a glittering evening event by impresario- singer Raju  Tank ( founder-'Bombay Entertainment') at the Veda Kunba theatre-auditorium in Mumbai. A galaxy of eminent Movie and TV  veteran stars and young stars and noted non-filmy celebs,  as well as some talented newcomers, were felicitated on stage with different categories-sizes of  Dadasaheb Phalke C N trophies.

 The  list of celebs and stars honored with Phalke C-N (F-C)Trophies Awardees included dynamic head-honcho of Pearl Group of Companies and publisher-chief editor Ronnie Rodrigues ( of  popular ‘CineBuster’ mag),  Chandrasekhar Pusalkar-Jee (grandson of Dadasaheb Phalke), (Versova) MLA Dr. Bharti Lavekar, veteran actor-model Deepak Parashar, , ex-ACP and ‘CSO’ of Film City Shri Sanjay Patil (also amazing singer ), senior actor-director-producer Deepak Tijori ('Tipppsy'), former ‘Miss India Earth’ and 'Tipppsy' movie- star actress Alankrita Sahai, celeb DJ model-actress Sonia Birje ( daughter of actor Hemant -‘Tarzan’- Birje),  singer-producer Bhaumik Patel, Sangram Shirke ( President WIFPA), B N Tiwari (President Film Federation,  actress-social activist Tina Ghai, veteran film-maker Ashok Shekhar,  senior actor Pankaj Berry, Vijayshree Chaudhary (choreographer), actor  Ali Khan, actor Bhupesh Raseen,   TV actress Nyra Banerjee, veteran composer  Dilip Sen, senior actress Sahila Chadha,  Dilip Dalvi, Sadashiv Dhotre,  stand-up comedian-actor Sunil Pal, senior composer Nikhil Kamat,  Gurpreet Kaur, singer-entrepreneur Lalitya Munshaw, actress-model Sanya Verma and Dr.Sundari Thakur ( Founder-President of ‘Women Respect Foundation’ and many others.

Dadasaheb Phalke C-N (F-C)  Awards-event organizer Raju Tank seemed sentimentally happy with the wonderful support that he got from his  Celeb-invitees and thanked each of them.  
Accompanied by ‘CineBuster’ Senior Editor Keerti Kadam, the Phalke-C-N celeb Awardee Ronnie Rodrigues was asked by news media as to ‘who’ was his inspiration. The benevolent Ronnie known for his acts of philanthropy replied instantly,  that he always derives “inspiration from poor people,-- because they give me their heartfelt blessings and good wishes !” 

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