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Mithun Chakraborty will be honored with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award during the 70th National Film Awards ceremony. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav shared this information on Twitter on Monday.
The Dadasaheb Phalke Selection Jury has decided to give the award to Mithun Chakraborty for his contribution to Indian cinema. He will be honored during the National Film Awards on October 8. In the year 1989, 19 films of Mithun Chakraborty were released, in which he appeared as the lead actor. This record of his is recorded in the Limca Book of Records. It has been almost 35 years since this incident happened, but till date no actor has been able to break this record. Mithun Chakraborty's real name is Gaurang Chakraborty. The actor changed his name as soon as he entered the film world.
The 1982 film Disco Dancer was the first Hindi cinema film to earn more than Rs 100 crore.
The film Disco Dancer was released in 1982. He collected more abroad than in India. This film became very popular in the Soviet Union and the countries of the Middle East. In an interview, Mithun Da said about his superduper hit film, 'When Disco Dancer collected Rs 100 crore, I could not believe it. I said, 'Oh my God, I have a lot of money.' According to a report, 12 crore tickets of Disco Dancer were sold. The film was more popular in the Soviet Union than in India. After disco dancer, Mithun Chakraborty became a star overnight.
Mithun Da was honored with 3 National Awards and Padmashree
Mithun has received 3 national awards in his career. He won the National Award for Best Actor for his very first film. The second National Award was for the 1993 film Tahadar Katha, while the third National Award was for the 1996 film Swami Vivekananda. Mithun's journey in the film industry has been inspiring. His hit films include Disco Dancer, Agneepath. Mithun Chakraborty was awarded the Padma Shri in January 2024. Mithun is counted among the greatest actors in the history of Indian cinema.
Mithun started his acting career in the year 1977 with the film Mrigaya.
Kolkata-born Mithun is an actor, producer and politician by profession. The actor has acted in more than 350 films. Which includes Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi films. Mithun started his acting career in the year 1977 with the film Mrigaya. Mithun is the only actor to have won the National Award for Best Actor for his debut film. Mithun da was one of the highest paid actors in India in the 80-90s. Mithun Chakraborty's last release was the Hindi film 2022's The Kashmir Files.
Mithun Chakraborty was a Naxalite before coming into films
Very few people know that before coming into films, Mithun Chakraborty was a Naxalite. After graduating in Chemistry from the Scottish Church College, Kolkata, Mithun Chakraborty turned to Naxalism and left his family and started living with the Naxalites. Meanwhile his brother died in an accident and he returned to his family. In this way he took care of himself and his family and said goodbye to the world of Naxalism and entered the world of acting and Bollywood got its disco dancer.