Lifetime Achievement Award

Pandit Ravi Shankar

He always said, "Don't grow up. But if you do, don't lose those wonderful qualities."

Pandit Ravi Shankar was born was born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury in 1920 and was a full-time member of his brother Uday Shankar's dance troupe by the time he met sarod player Ustad Allauddin Khan as a young man, and began training under him in the Indian classical music center of Maihar.

After he finished his formal sitar training, he worked as a music director with All India Radio for several years and also recorded music for HMV. He famously composed Doordarshan's signature tune and rearranged the music for patriotic song Sare Jahan Se Achha.

In the mid-1950s, he made a breakthrough in the world of cinema with Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy for which he composed the music.

Although he remained hugely popular and admired in India, Pandit Ravi Shankar's legacy is the export of Indian classical music to the West through his collaborations with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and The Beatles, through whom he inspired much of the 1960s psychedelic sound.

He received India's three highest civilian honours – the Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan - an award from the UNESCO International Music Council in 1975, four competitive Grammys as well as a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and an Academy Award nomination.

He was, perhaps, India's greatest cultural ambassador and his daughters, Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones, are acclaimed musicians themselves.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Yashraj Chopra

Yash Chopra was Bollywood's king of romance, presiding over celluloid love stories like Chandni, Lamhe and Veer-Zaara.

He was a kingmaker to whom many stars owed their success, not least of which include Amitabh Bachchan who shot to fame in Yash Chopra's Deewar, and Shah Rukh Khan who had an early hit in Darr.

Yash Chopra's ability to narrate the most telling tales in a simple manner have left Hindi cinema with a rich legacy of timeless films like Waqt, Kabhi Kabhi and Silisila. He was Bollywood's first real ambassador, taking film shoots to Europe.

Switzerland was a favourite location, and his habit of paying the greatest attention to his heroine's look in each film became a Yash Chopra hallmark. He founded and ran Bollywood's first state of the art banner, Yash Raj Films.

Yash Chopra won six National Awards, 11 Filmfare Awards and received the Padma Bhushan in 2005. He died in October, 2012 of multi-organ failure. Just weeks later, his 22nd film, Jab Tak Hain Jaan, released and became a blockbuster hit.