Megastar Amitabh Bachchan penned a heartwarming note for the film industry after he got conferred with the 2021 FIAF Award by The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), the organisation of film archives and museums from across the world, at a virtual ceremony held on March 19.
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has been honoured with the 2021 FIAF Award. Taking to Twitter, the actor shared a couple of pictures receiving the honour and said expressed his gratitude. He tweeted, “Deeply honoured to have been conferred the 2021 FIAF Award. Thank you FIAF, Martin Scorsese , Christopher Nolan for bestowing the award on me in the ceremony today. Modern technology be praised. Connected virtually to rest of the World simultaneously.”
T 3847 – Hope you can see this link of the ceremony FIAF award !https://t.co/2ouoPRCysH pic.twitter.com/701B8xMG6n
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) March 19, 2021
On Instagram, the 78 year-old star posted a picture of him from last night after he received the accolade.
“Our commitment to the cause of saving India’s film heritage is unshakeable and Film Heritage Foundation will continue its efforts to build a nationwide movement to save our films,” he concluded.
Iconic filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan, who have been previous recipients, gave the award to Big B for his contribution to the preservation of and access to the world’s film heritage for the benefit of present and future generations.
At the opening ceremony of the 2018 Kolkata Film Festival, Bachchan had delivered an impassioned speech on film preservation, saying that most films of Indian filmmaking legends have “gone up in flames or have been discarded on the scrap heap.”
“Very little of this great film heritage survives, and if we do not take urgent steps to save what remains, in another hundred years there will be no memory of these films and nothing left to celebrate,” the actor had said.
