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The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their " outstanding contribution towards literature ". Instituted in 1961 , the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of ___MASK78___ and English , with no posthumous conferral . Kannada ('), also known as Canarese or Kanarese , is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in ___MASK78___ , mainly in the state of Karnataka , and by linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh , Telangana , Tamil Nadu , Maharashtra , Kerala , and ___MASK38___ . The language has roughly 40 million native speakers who are called Kannadigas , and a total of 50 . 8 million speakers according to a 2001 census . It is one of the scheduled languages of ___MASK78___ and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka . Basu Chatterjee ( born 10 January 1930 ) is an Indian film director and screenwriter . Through the 1970s and 1980s , he became associated with what came to be known as middle cinema or middle - of - the road cinema , with film makers like Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Bhattacharya , whom he assisted in " Teesri Kasam " ( 1966 ). Like them , his films also dealt with light - hearted stories of middle - class families often in urban settings , focussing on marital and love relationships , with exceptions like " Ek Ruka Hua Faisla " ( 1986 ) and " Kamla Ki Maut " ( 1989 ), which delved into social and moral issues . He is best known for his films " Chhoti Si Baat " ( 1975 ), " Chitchor " ( 1976 ), " Rajnigandha " ( 1974 ), " Piya Ka Ghar " ( 1972 ), " Baton Baton Mein " ( 1979 ) and " Shaukeen " ( 1982 ). Basu Bhattacharya ( 1934  1997 ) was a Hindi film director , most famous for his 1966 film " Teesri Kasam ", starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman ( based on the short story " Maare Gaye Gulfam " by Phanishwar Nath ' Renu '), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1967 ; he also produced " Sparsh " ( 1985 ) starring Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah , which won the Filmfare Best Movie Award . The most popular and critically acclaimed film which he directed remains " Avishkaar ", starring Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore , which received five stars in the Bollywood Guide " Collections " and Rajesh Khanna received Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1975 . In 1979 , he produced " Sparsh ", which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi . In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th ___MASK14___ International Film Festival . Man Pasand ( English : Favorite ) is a 1980 Hindi movie produced by Amit Khanna under Film Unit banner and directed by Basu Chatterjee . The film stars Dev Anand , Tina Munim , Girish Karnad , Mehmood and Simple Kapadia . The film ' s music is by Rajesh Roshan while the lyrics were penned by Amit Khanna himself . A couple of songs from the film had become popular . Although the film is dedicated to George Bernard Shaw -- with the implication that it is based on his play Pygmalion -- according to Dev Anand the film is inspired by My Fair Lady . Girish Raghunath Karnad ( born 19 May 1938 ) is an Indian actor , film director , writer playwright and a Rhodes Scholar , who predominantly works in South Indian cinema and Bollywood . his rise as a playwright in 1960s , marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada , just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali , Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi , and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi . He is a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award , the highest literary honour conferred in ___MASK78___ . Bollywood is the sobriquet for ___MASK78___ ' s Hindi language film industry , based in the city of ___MASK1___ , Maharashtra . It is more formally referred to as Hindi cinema . The term " Bollywood " is often used by non - Indians as a synecdoche to refer to the whole of Indian cinema ; however , Bollywood proper is only a part of the larger Indian film industry , which includes other production centres producing films in many other Indian languages . Hrithik Roshan ( born 10 January 1974 ) is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films . The son of the filmmaker Rakesh Roshan , he has been noted for portraying a variety of character types and his dancing ability . Roshan is one of the highest - paid actors in ___MASK78___ and has won six Filmfare Awards among others . He ranks high in listings of the most influential people in Indian culture . Piya Ka Ghar ( Devanagari :        , Nastaliq :    , translation : " My Beloved ' s House ", 1972 ) is a Hindi comedy set ( mainly ) in ___MASK1___ in the 1970s . It is a remake of Raja Thakur ' s Marathi film " Mumbaicha Javai ". It portrays the difficulties of life in India ' s biggest city during the 1970s in the form of a comic family drama . Rajesh Roshan Lal Nagrath ( born 24 May 1955 ) is a Hindi cinema music composer . He is the younger brother of film director and producer Rakesh Roshan and the uncle of Hrithik Roshan . Modern Standard Hindi ( Devanagari :         , " Mnak Hind ") or simply Hindi ( Devanagari :      , " Hind "), is an Indian language and a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language . Hindi is one of the official languages of ___MASK78___ , and is the " lingua franca " of the Hindi belt languages . Outside ___MASK78___ , Hindi is an official language in Fiji , and is a recognised regional language in Mauritius , Suriname , Guyana , and Trinidad and Tobago . Simple Kapadia ( 15 August 1958  10 November 2009 ) was a Bollywood actress and costume designer .