One of the few Hindi film stars to appear onscreen from a child to a dowager, Asha Parekh is the seventh woman out of a total of 52 awardees to be conferred the country's most important film honour, Dadasahab Phalke Award, since its inception in 1969.
She is also the second woman after Asha Bhosle to get the award since the dawn of the 2000s. Ironically, despite the limited representation of women in the roster of awardees, Devika Rani was the first to get it in 1969.
The other lucky women were Ruby Myers
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