Film Dignitaries and personalities gathered before the Dada Saheb Phalke statue at Dada Saheb Phalke Chitranagari on 16thFebruary 2017 to pay tribute to the Father of Indian Cinema and garland his statue. Among the dignitaries were Joint M.D. Mrs. Sankhe, Shri. Santosh Singh Jain (Founder Chairman & Trustee DSPA), Shri. Sangram Shirke (Chairman of WIPFA), Mr. Dharmendra Mehra (Gen. Sec. of FMC) ,Shri. Ganesh Jain (Trustee of DSPA) & Neena Jalan (Trustee of DSPA) and Mr. Chandrakant Pusalkar and his wife (Family of Dada Saheb Phalke), Mr. Hirachand Dand ( Gen. Sec. of FFI) , Mr. Ravindra Arora, Mr.Dilip Dalvi, Mr.C.P. Verma & Mr. Manohar Thakur (WIFPA E.C. Members), Mr. Harsh Gupta, Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Mr. Puneet Khare, Mr. Raju Tonk, mr ajay yadav,mr satish agarwalMr. Abhishek Bindal, Ms. Harshada Patil & Mrs. Geeta Parmar paid homage to Dada Saheb Phalke . Also more than 500 members of Film Industry were present to pay tribute to the Father of Indian Cinema.