The Indian Film and Television Directors Association (IFTDA) felicitated Shri Shakti Samanta, Shri Lekh Tandon and BP Singh with the IFTDA Lifetime Achievement award yesterday at a star studded award ceremony at Bhavan's college ground, Andheri West.

IFTDA also honored National Award winners such as Rahul Dholakia for Parzania, Pradeep Sarkar for Parineeta, Shujminder Dhanjal for Punjabi film Bagi, Anand Ghatraj for Bhojpuri film, Nishikant Kamat for Marathi film Dombivali Fast and many more.

Special guests present included Sharmila Tagore, Shatrughan Sinha, Jagdeep, Gulzar, Raman Kumar, Deepti Naval, Aseem Samanta, Ashok Pandit, Vinod Pandey, Dharmesh Tiwari and many other prominent film personalities.