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Khandwa, Bollywood actor Dharmendra Deol has been awarded the National Kishore Kumar Award 2022 by the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Director, Culture N.P. Namdev conferred the National Kishore Kumar Award-2022 on Dharmendra at his residence in Mumbai on May 18, 2024. This honour has been given to Deol for continuous activism, excellent creation, long practice and best standards in the field of acting. Social worker and spokesperson of Kishore Cultural Prerna Manch, Sunil Jain said that the Government of Madhya Pradesh, Culture Department, following its well-established tradition of honouring excellence and creation at the national level, has established the annual National Kishore Kumar Award for direction, acting, screenplay and songwriting in the field of cinema. This prestigious honour of the Government of Madhya Pradesh for the year 2022 has been conferred on popular actor Dharmendra Deol. Spokesperson Sunil Jain said that the great singer Kishore Da has sung more than 75 songs for actor Dharmendra ji, which mainly includes songs like Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas, Mile Mile Do Badan, Chahe Raho Door, Jani O Jani, Gaata Rahe Mera Dil, Duniya O Duniya Tera Jawaab Nahi. Dharmendra Deol was overwhelmed after receiving the honour and said, "I am grateful to the Madhya Pradesh government, the Culture Department for giving me this national honour established in the name of a great personality like Kishore Kumar. I am thankful to my fans, whose infinite love always remains with me. Among the great artists who have been given this honour before me, some are like my gurus, some are respectable and some are also my colleagues, today I am very happy to see my name in their list. Social worker Sunil Jain said that the Kishore Samman given to Dharmendra ji was the 25th award, the first Kishore Samman Award was given to Rishikesh Mukherjee in 1997-98, the 25th Kishore Samman Award was given to famous actor Dharmendra by the Madhya Pradesh Culture Department in Mumbai, there is resentment among music and Kishore lovers about the award given in Mumbai,

When the state government minister Vijay Shah was the Culture Minister, he had announced to give the Kishore Samman Award organized in Bhopal in Kishore Da's birthplace Khandwa, since then this award is being given in Khandwa only, social worker Sunil Jain said that honoring famous actor Dharmendra ji with Kishore Samman is a commendable step but giving him this award in Mumbai is a hurtful news for Kishore lovers, a few days ago, Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister Vijay Shah said in Kishore Da's program that whoever will be given this honor will have to come to Khandwa and receive the honor. In Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, the Forest Minister had given a big statement regarding the National Kishore Kumar Alankaran Award given by the state government. In the event organized on Kishore Kumar's birthday on 4th August, the Forest Minister said that whoever will be given this award will have to come to Khandwa to receive it. The government will not give him this award by going to Mumbai. If he does not come to Khandwa, then his award will be cancelled. Minister Vijay Shah said that we had brought the Kishore Kumar Award given in Bhopal to Khandwa. But till now no one has received this award in the field of singing. Kishore Award should also be given in the field of singing. Whoever will be given the award will have to come to Khandwa to receive it. Actually some artists did not come to Khandwa to receive the award. The people of Khandwa including the Forest Minister were angry about this. Sunil Jain said that on 18th May, the Culture Department official went to Mumbai and honored actor Dharmendra with the Kishore Award. Every year on 13th October, on the death anniversary of Kishore Da, a big program has been organized with the cooperation of the Culture Department Bhopal and the District Administration. Now this year this program will not be held.

,,,What is National Kishore Kumar Award,, ,

National Kishore Kumar Award is given by the Madhya Pradesh Government for outstanding contribution in the field of direction, acting, screenplay and song writing in the field of Hindi cinema. The Culture Department of the Madhya Pradesh Government has started giving 'National Kishore Kumar Award' following its well-established tradition of honoring excellence and creativity at the national level. It is worth noting that till now National Kishore Kumar Award has been given to 25 artists associated with the film industry for different categories.

These people have received the Kishore Samman

Kishore Sanskrutik Prerana Manch spokesperson Sunil Jain said that this Kishore Samman award started in the year 1978. Hrishikesh Mukherjee - 1997-98, Naseeruddin Shah - 1998-99, Gulzar - 1999-2000, Kaifi Azmi - 2000-01, BR Chopra - 2001-02, Amitabh Bachchan - 2002-03, Govind Nihalani - 2003-04, Javed Akhtar - 2004-05, Shyam Benegal - 2005-06, Shatrughan Sinha - 2006-07, Manoj Kumar - 2007-08, Gulshan Bawra - 2008-09, Yash Chopra - 2009-10, Dev Anand - 2010-11, Salim Khan - 2011-12 • Sameer - 2012-13 • Sai Paranjape - 2013-14, Dilip Kumar - 2014-15 • Rumi Jaffrey - 2015-16 • Yogesh - 2016-17, Priyadarshan - 2017-18, Waheeda Rehman - 2018-19, Screenwriter Ashok Mishra Mumbai 2019-20, Lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya 2020-21, Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri 2021-22 and this year famous actor Dharmendra was honoured with the Kishore Kumar Samman Award.