You can consider yourself to be very successful and truly talented when you are chosen as the recipient of a prestigious award. In the Telugu states, the ANR National Award holds that stature and one filmmaker has been chosen as the recipient this year.
He is none other than the tough taskmaster S S Rajamouli. King Akkineni Nagarjuna announced recently that this year the award would be given to Rajamouli for his contribution towards cinema. After this announcement, Rajamouli came forward to share his reactions on becoming the chosen one.
He reportedly mentioned it was truly an honour for him to be chosen and he is privileged to join the list of legends who had received this award prior to him. True to his statement, the ANR award was given to the likes of living legend Amitabh Bachchan, K Balachander, Dev Anand, Shyam Benegal, Lata Mangeshkar and others.