Women were felicitated as Nari Shakti Sammaan and Saraswati Bai Dada Saheb Phalke Award to the females of Film Industry chosen from the era of 60s Actress, Directors, Media, Journalism, Writers, Singers.
Chief Guest- Dr. Bharati Lavekar MLA Versova.
From their stance and area of influence, they have shown that when a woman’s voice is heard, when she participates in decision making and when she exercises leadership, she most likely brings something unique, special and of high value and quality to key decisions and its impact on humankind’s biggest projects.
While Dadasaheb Phalke busy putting the blocks of Indian Cinema together, she stood by him like a rock & not just managed her family of nine children, held white bed sheets for hours in the blazing sun as a light reflector, mixed film developing chemicals, perforated the raw film sheets at night in the light of a candle & with sharing all these responsibilities of pre & post production & other technological & technical responsibilities with Dada Saheb, even single handedly cooked food for the entire film unit comprising of 60-70 to even 100 people.