PIX: Aishwarya, Hema Malini receive Dadasaheb Phalke awards

The Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awards, which started three years ago, were held in Mumbai on April 21.

The awards honour artists for their contribution to Indian cinema, and are different from the Dadasaheb Phalke awards presented at the annual National awards ceremony in Delhi.

A number of celebrities won awards and posed with the trophy.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan looks stunning as always.

Hema Malini and Aishwarya pose with their awards.

Hema received the Kala Shri Awards and Ash got it for her performance in Sarabjit.

Pankaj Kapur poses with his trophy as wife Supriya can't hold back her smile.

Divya Khosla Kumar and Saiyami Kher. Saiyami won the Best Debut award for her performance in Mirzya.

Zeenat Aman gets the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Divya and Urvashi Rautela show off their awards.

PINK actress Kirti Kulhari and Sara Khan are all smiles.

Javed Akhtar and Anup Jalota pose with their awards.

Bright Outdoor Media founder Yogesh Lakhani and filmmaker Saawan Kumar Tak.

Music composer Shravan Rathod and singer Jubin Nautiyal.

Actresses Smita Gondkar and Shweta Khanduri. 

Transgender activist Laxmi Tripathy and comedian Sunil Pal.

Comedian Raju Srivastava with wife Shikha.

Kriti poses with her PINK co-star Piyush Mishra.

Dandiya queen Falguni Pathak and comedian VIP.

South actress Meenakshi Dixit and popular television actress Usha Nadkarni.

Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar