The honour was bestowed on the trio by filmmaker Subhash Ghai&#39;s film and media institute on Wednesday. <img alt="Amitabh Bachchan" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/sep/Amitabh-Bachchan_5.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 628px;" /> Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh, 70, said he was happy to meet young aspirants, who are the &quot;future of this glorious industry&quot;, and felt honoured to share the stage with the stalwarts. &quot;The award was called the Maestro Award, but the true owners of that title were the ones standing to my left ... the most distinguished and pandits of classical music - Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, the flautist and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the master of the unique santoor,&quot; Big B posted on his blog. Ghai&#39;s institute hosted its sixth annual convocation. The ceremony was organised to felicitate over 200 talented film and media graduates. Big B said he is proud to see how youngsters are showing their interest towards films. &quot;It&#39;s a proud moment for me to see the future of film industry today. I&#39;m grateful to Subhashji for building a platform that will enhance the skills of actors, filmmakers, screenplay writers and more. &quot;There is a huge amount of interest in filmmaking. So, I wish all the luck to the graduating batch that will now bear the burden of taking the industry to newer heights,&quot; he said in a statement.

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Amitabh Bachchan, classical flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and ace santoor exponent Shivkumar Sharma were honoured here with the WWI (Whistling Woods International) Maestro Awards

Amitabh Bachchan receives Maestro award

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