The prestigious poll conducted by IBN live to test the knowledge and trend of present cinema going people about the yestergeneration actors has brought forward some spectacular results. The poll was held in five categories viz. Greatest Actor, Greatest Actress, Greatest Film, Greatest Director and Greatest Music Composer of all time. On the eve of Indian cinema celebrating 100 years of glory, the poll holds good significance. Our Telugu pride Legendary Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao is declared the winner of Greatest Actor of Indian Cinema.
Here are the results:
Greatest Actor: NTR (Received 53% of the total votes while Kamal Hasan secured 44)
In competition were Balraaj Sahni, Dilip Kumar, Guru Dutt, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, MG Ramachandran, Shivaji Ganeshan, Uttam Kumar, Dr Rajkumar, Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal, Soumitro Chattopadhyay, Sanjeev Kumar, Gemini Ganesan, Pankaj Kapoor, Mamootty, NTR, Mithun Chakraborty, Utpal Dutt and Chhabi Biswas.
Greatest Actress: Sreedevi (Got 39% of total votes while Madhuri Dikshit and Kommareddy Savitri secured respectively 16 and 12)
In competition were Waheeda Rehman, Madhubala, Nargis, Sabitri Chatterjee, Meena Kumari, Nutan, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Deepti Naval, Madhuri Dikshit, Madhabi Mukherjee, Sharada, B Saroja Devi, Rakhee Gulzar, Kommareddy Savitri, Suraiya, Suchitra Sen, Sreedevi, Devika Rani and Aishwarya Rai.
Greatest Film: Nayakan (Won with 42% vote share while Sholay gor 29, Swayamvaram with 6, Mughal-e-Azam and Pather Panchali received 5)
Greatest Director: Maniratnam (Secured 29% of vote share while K Balachander is at 18, Shankar received 9, Yash Chopra is on 8)
Greatest Music Composer: Ilayaraja (Won 49% of votes while AR Rahman is on 29, SP Balasubramanyam with 7 and RD Burman just got 4% of votes)