Chetak Screen Awards 2026: Dharmendra honoured with posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award; Bobby Deol tears up as he remembers his late father | Bollywood News
At the Chetak Screen Awards held in Mumbai on Sunday evening, the Lifetime Achievement Award was posthumously conferred on veteran actor Dharmendra, recognising his contribution to cinema across a career that spanned more than six decades. The award was presented by Javed Akhtar, Ramesh Sippy and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and was accepted by late Dharmendra’s son Bobby Deol. Before the honour was presented, a collection of Dharmendra’s images was presented in a video with Amitabh Bachchan reciting a few lines from Dharmendra’s poetry. Javed Akhtar recalled some of his memories with Dharmendra and said, “We are here to do a task, which is almost impossible. Writers deal with words, but sometimes words fail a writer and this is one occasion so I have decided I won’t say anything which is obvious. I won’t say he was the most handsome man in screen history. I will not tell you that he was the most versatile actor who was, on one hand, the He-Man, and on the other, equally convincing as a poet, as a …
