Chennai: Popular Tamil film and TV actor Mohan Raman, also a well known philatelist, was pleasantly surprised when the government honoured actors he had recommended from the south through 50 stamps that were released at the 60th National Film Awards.
President Pranab Mukherjee released the stamps Friday commemorating 50 iconic film personalities who brought changes to Indian cinema.
"I was approached by a member of the film chamber few months back requesting me to suggest names of actors from south to be honoured through postal stamps. I suggested few names from all four southern film industries and to my surprise a few from the list I had recommended were honoured," Mohan told IANS.
"I felt like the squirrel that helped lord Rama in building the bridge in 'Ramayana'. I'm extremely happy with the list and feel everyone in it truly deserved the honour," added the actor known for his work in Tamil films such as 'Mahanadi', 'Minsara Kanavu', 'Padayappa' and 'Kuselan'. The postal stamps were of Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand, Yash Chopra, Smita Patil, Rajesh Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Dutt, and Tapan Sinha among others....
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