The Bimal Roy Memorial Trophy[1] honor experienced artists and other contributors from the Indian film industry as well as a young filmmaker.
Kidar Sharma (Writer – Director) was a pioneer in his field, who entered film in 1934 with Seeta as a photographer.
Suraiya was one of the tallest singing stars of the early golden years of Indian Hindi cinema of the nineteen forties and fifties.
Ram Narayan (Classical Musician) is a sarangi player and has brought the musical instrument into focus in the country and world over.
In a film career starting from the early nineteen forties until late nineties, he acted in all kind of roles, but most notably as a Bollywood villain.