Sayem Sobhan gets Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir has received India’s most prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Awards-2017. He has been accorded the award for the outstanding contribution of the country’s leading business conglomerate to the mass media, social service and sports. Sayem Sobhan is the first Bangladeshi to have received such an iconic award. Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar handed over the award to him at a grand gala at Mumbai St Andrew’s College auditorium on Friday evening. Sayem Sobhan is the managing director also of East West Media Group Ltd (EWMGL), a concern of Bashundhara Group. EWMGL runs three dailies — daily sun, Bangladesh Pratidin and Kaler Kantho — and banglanews24.com online news portal, Radio Capital FM radio station and News 24 television channel.

SOURCE : Daily Sun