Protest against changing the 65-year-old tradition of film award
Delhi: Only 11 of the 140 selected artists for the National Film Awards will be honored by the President this time. Reminders will be given to Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani to the rest. So far, there has been a tradition of honoring all the artists by the President. In this case, more than 60 awardees have threatened to boycott the program which will be held on Thursday in Vigyan Bhawan. Artists wrote letters to the President - Unhappy artists have written a letter to the President's Office, Directorate of Film Festival and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. - They say that they were told about the replacement system at last time. This decision is going to ruin. It's like betrayal - Artists wrote in the letter, "It is like betraying that an institution which adheres to the strict protocol, there is a change in the program without informing it. It is unfortunate that the tradition of 65 years is being changed in one stroke . " ...