Kunal Kohli's Fanaa has been awarded by Navbharat Times's Udaan Awards for promoting Hindi language.

At an award function organized by Navbharat Times, filmmaker Kunal Kohli was congratulated by Amitabh Bachchan, who was a chief guest.

Kunal said, "This award was meant for contribution of Hindi Language. It feels great that my movie Fanaa got an award but at the same time it is bad that we are getting awards for promoting our own national language."

"It feels bad that the award is not much spoken in media. To be pragmatic Hindi has been treated as vernacular language so we need to promote Hindi, since our new generation is not very keen to acknowledge it. It feels bad that we are losing our own language, which is part of our own culture." He laments.

Currently, Kohli has finished the pre-production work and is planning to go on floors in September begin his new film. A love story for which he has signed Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee as the main leads while Rishi Kapoor will be seen in a guest appearance.