Bachchan receives NTR Film Award

April 11, 2013 22:20

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan was tonight presented with N T Rama Rao National Film Award set up by the Andhra Pradesh government.

"I have no words to express my extreme gratitude for this very very warm welcome....I feel very honoured and very humbled to receive this recognition from Andhra Pradesh government," Bachchan said after receiving the award from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy in Hyderabad.

Extending greetings for Telugu New Year Ugadi and noting that he shared a lovely relationship with the late NTR, Bachchan said "many of his films we would remake in Hindi and many of our films were remade in Telugu."

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