/> This year at the the IIFA awards, director-writer O.P. Dutta who at the age of 82 continues to be supremely active in his son's cinema—he has penned the Urdu dialogues of JP's latest period film Umrao Jaan—will be honoured with a lifetime achievement at the IIFA awards to be held in Dubai this week.

Proud and emotional, son JP says, "It's about-time my dad got some recognition. Do you know, he's been an active part of the film industry for more than fifty years? He has directed 8-9 films and written dialogues for all my films including Umrao Jaan.

Still when he heard he was being honoured at IIFA do you know what Dad's reaction was?'Why should I be honoured? I've given nothing to the industry. The industry has given me so much to me'.

Lately I've discovered some startling facts about my father. No one knows he directed the first Indo-Pak film. It was called Anokhee and it was shot in 1956 in Karachi with India's Sheila Ramani and a cast of Pakistani actors. Even I tried to do something to bring the two countries together in Border and Refugee many years ago."

A speech on the prolific O.P. Dutta will probably be given by poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar who pens lyrics regularly for JP's films.

"You know when Dad and Javed Saab get together they talk about such amazing incidents and events in our cinema. I feel so small in front of them. Even at his age you've to see how lucid dad's writing is in Umrao Jaan."