West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on 26th July 2017 conferred this year's ‘Mahanayak Samman 2017' to veteran actress Shakuntala Barua for her contribution to the world of cinema.
Awards were also presented to Prosenjit Chatterjee, Nusrat Jahan, Arindam Sil, Bickram Ghosh, Soumik Halder and Padmanabha Dasgupta.
Suparnokanti Karati for Bisarjan film and Shiboprasad Mukhopadhyay of Windows Productions for Praktan film were also among the awardees for Best Film and Best Producer categories.
The CM also looks to digitalise Bengal's film records.
