India, Jan. 25 -- Prosenjit Chatterjee achieved a new milestone in his illustrious career as he was conferred with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India on Sunday. Having had a career of over four decades which started in the Bengali film industry but then expanded across other languages, the actor calls it an honour that he dears close.

On receiving this honour, Prosenjit Chatterjee says, "I am grateful and thankful of the Indian government and I will not call it an award, but a kind of achievement. This is a very important recognition for anybody. I have been working for the last 40 plus years as an actor mostly in Bengali language, but I am doing Indian cinema. I have been serving my audience, my directors and producers, so ...