Akkineni family has decided to continue the ANR Awards event year and Megastar Chiranjeevi has been announced to receive the prestigious award for the year. Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is the special guest of the event that took place in a grand manner in Annapurna Studios. Amitabh Bachchan felicitated Chiranjeevi with the ANR National Award. The event witnessed top celebrities like Venkatesh, Raghavendra Rao, Allu Aravind, Ram Charan, Nani, Trivikram, S Radha Krishna, Rajendra Prasad, Prakash Raj, Ramya Krishna, Sudheer Babu,
Nagarjuna, Amala Akkineni, Venkat Akkineni, Naga Suseela, Naga Chaitanya, Akhil, Sumanth, Sushanth, Supriya, Shobita Dhulipala and others from the Akkineni family attended the event. Everyone turned emotional after the last audio message of ANR was shown for the guests in the event. It was the last message of ANR for his family members and was posted in their family WhatsApp group before his demise. All the guests lauded the efforts of ANR and Chiranjeevi for their contribution to Indian cinema.
