Actor-politician Mithun Chakraborty has been named as the recipient of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award, which is the highest Indian government honour accorded for contributions in the field of cinema. 

Vivek Agnihotri has served West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with a legal notice after she stated that "The Kashmir Files" was "meant purely to humiliate a particular section of society."