No One To Escort The Would Be Dada Saheb Phalke Awardee To Seat?

 The 69th National Film Award function was held at Vigyan Bhawan recently. Wahida Rahman was awarded the most prestigious Dada Saheb Falke Award this year. She along with her son Sohal Rekhi reached Vigyan Bhawan in time. She was allowed to enter from a dedicated gate but her son was not allowed, who was taking care of his mother to walk source says. She was made to walk alone the long distances without any escort to reach her seat source says. She was not comfortable walking and lumping due to old age source says. This reminded the Late R K Kapoor incident, when he came in person to receive the award in the same hall but was not allowed to take it inside for protocol and security reasons, his medical apparatus was required to breathe in emergencies source says. After the presentation the VVIPs were given a signal of ready to leave - this is a message that VVIPs are to move within 5 minutes as the traffic is stopped on the route for easy movement source says. President was with her daughter and both started talking to people from film stardom source says. The discussions prolonged to approximately 45 minutes and traffic on route had to wait till clearance of VVIP movement source says.