The government of India  announced that nine film celebrities will be conferred the country’s prestigious civilian honors. Southern megastar Rajinikanth will get the Padma Vibhushan while the late India-born British actor Saeed Jaffrey has been posthumously named for the Padma Shri. The Padma Vibhushan honor has also been reserved for media baron Ramoji Rao of the Ramoji Group, which owns, among other things, film production facility Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad. Veteran actor Anupam Kher and singer Udit Narayan will be conferred the Padma Bhushan; actors Ajay Devgn and Priyanka Chopra, and filmmakers Nila Madhab Panda, S.S. Rajamouli and Madhur Bhandarkar will get the Padma Shri honor. Both Kher and Narayan are already Padma Shri winners.