The Government of India has immortalized 50 legendary actors across the country by issuing postal stamps as an honor of their contribution towards Indian cinema. President Pranab Mukherjee released the stamps at the 60th national film awards function. Our own Bhanumathi, SV Ranga Rao and Allu Ramalingaih were among the list. Others included  CV Sridhar, Kannadasan, Vishnuvardhan Nagesh,  TR Sundaram,  Dev Anand, Yash Chopra, Smita Patil, Rajesh Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Dutt, Ashok Kumar  and Tapan Sinha etc.