The Dadasaheb Phalke honour for veteran actor Pran, &quot;a large pillar of the Indian film industry&quot;, is most deserving, believes Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan. <a href="http://www.mid-day.com/photos/b-town-specials/rare-images-of-pran/zanjeer-pran/" target="_blank">Rare images of Pran</a> <img alt="Dadasaheb Phalke award, a glorious tribute to Pran: Big B" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/mar/amitabh123456.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 405px;" /> Amitabh Bachchan &quot;A glorious tribute to a great human and a large pillar of the Indian film industry... Pran... the Dadasaheb Phalke award by the state,&quot; the 70-year-old tweeted. Together, Big B and Pran have worked in films like &#39;Sharaabi&#39;, &#39;Amar Akbar Anthony&#39;, &#39;Zanjeer&#39; and &#39;Don&#39;. The arch villain of Bollywood, Pran Krishan Sikand or Pran as he is popularly known, was Friday named for the Dadasaheb Phalke award. <img alt="Dadasaheb Phalke award, a glorious tribute to Pran: Big B" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/mar/pran.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 459px;" /> Pran The actor turned 93 in February. Pran acted in over 400 movies in a career spanning over six decades and played a vast range of roles - from a hero to a villain to a character artist. He became popular with his roles in &#39;Madhumati&#39;, &#39;Ziddi&#39; , &#39;Ram Aur Shyam&#39; and &#39;Zanjeer&#39;.u00a0

Amitabh Bachchan said that veteran actor Pran was most deserving of the Dadasaheb Phalke award

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