MUMBAI: Director Amit Rai has bagged this year‘s Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Award for his Hindi film Road to Sangam that stars Paresh Rawal and Om Puri.

The award comprising a cash prize of Rs 1.50 lakh and a memento would be presented to Rai by Anil Kapoor at a function in Chennai on 12 August. Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, actress Vidya Balan and director Madhur Bhandarkar would also participate in the event.

On the occasion, veteran artiste Girish Karnad would deliver the memorial lecture on the topic Mythology on Celluloid.

Past winners of this award include Leslie Carvallho for The Outhouse (English), Shyama Prasad Agni Sakshi (Malayalam), Manju Bora Baibhab (Assamese), Subrata Sen Ek Je Ache Kanya (Bengali), Janaki Viswanathan Kutti (Tamil), Ram Madhvani Let‘s Talk (English).

The award has been instituted by writer and actor Gollapudi Maruthi Rao and his family, to perpetuate the memory of his son Srinivas who died in 1992 in an accident during the shooting of his debut film.