Who has won the first "Dadasaheb Phalke Award"?

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Actress Devika Rani was the first recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1969 acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema.

She became the first ever recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the country's highest award for films, when it was instituted in 1969.

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