Johnny Lever is conferred with Allu National award for the year 2006 at a function held in Harihar Kala Bhavan today evening. Pawan Kalyan and T Subbirami Reddy attended this
function as guests. Lots of Telugu comedians Kota, Brahmanandam, Sunil, Ali, Babu Mohan, LBSriram, Rallapally, AVS, Mallikharjuna Rao, Gundu Hanmantha Rao etc attended this function. Allu Arvind could not make it to the function as he had to go to USA on some urgent issue. Chiranjeevi could not make it as he is away in London now. All the comedians expressed their feelings about Allu Ramalingaiah and Johnny Lever.
"Allu Award is the greatest honor in my life" - Johnny Lever
Responding to this award Johnny Lever said, “Allu Ramalingaiah was a versatile comedy actor who acted in various roles in his career spanning 55 years. He was active even when he was in 70’s. Doing about comedy is a tough task and Allu Ramalingaiah excelled in it. I feel that getting this award is the greatest honor of my
life. My parents moved from Prakasam district to Mumbai when I was 15 days old. I was brought up in Mumbai. I stayed in Mumbai slums for 20 years. During that strenuous period I learnt comedy and dancing. Telugu people show lots of love on film celebrities and I did happen to face such memorable situations with Telugu people all around the world. I wanted to act in Telugu films. But I am afraid that I can’t match the might of stalwart comedians like Brahmanandam, Kota, Ali etc."
