Superstar Rajinikanth calls the Dadasaheb Phalke award, a “special landmark” event in his life. He will be conferred with the award by the Indian government on October 25 at the 67th National Film Awards. On the occasion, he has also announced the launch of his daughter Soundarya’s new social voice app called Hoote.

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Rajinikanth said in a letter, “Tomorrow is an important occasion for me with two special landmarks. One, “Dadasaheb Phalke award”, being conferred upon me by the Government of India because of the love and support of the people.”

He added, “Second, my daughter Soundarya Vishagan, by her Independent efforts has pioneered the making of a very useful app for people called HOOTE and she is going to introduce it to the world from India. People can now express through their voice their thoughts, wishes and ideas just like they do in writing in any language of their choice. I am very happy to launch this innovative, useful and the first of its kind the HOOTE APP in my voice.”

The Dadasaheb Phalke award is the highest award in Indian cinema. Some other recent awardees include Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Kasinathuni Viswanath, Manoj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Gulzar, Pran and others.

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Apart from Dadasaheb Phalke award, Rajinikanth has won four Tamil Nadu State Film awards. He was awarded the prestigious Padma Bhushan in 2000, and was conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award in 2016. In addition to this, Rajinikanth was given the Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year at the 45th edition of International Film Festival held in Goa.

The megastar was last seen in 2020’s ‘Darbar’ and is currently busy with his next, ‘Annaatthe’.

‘Annaatthe’ is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language action drama film written and directed by Siva and produced by Kalanithi Maran under the banner of Sun Pictures. The film also stars Meena, Khushbu, Nayanthara and Keerthy Suresh. The film is scheduled to release on the occasion of Diwali, 4 November 2021.