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Pankaj Purohit Wins Youth Icon Award 2022 At Midday Glitz & Glam Icons 2022

Updated on: 18 October,2022 03:34 PM IST  |  Mumbai
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His indomitable spirit of inspiration, his keen interest in ordinary people, and his indefatigable zeal are the core strengths on which Pankaj Purohit innovates constantly.

Pankaj Purohit Wins Youth Icon Award 2022 At Midday Glitz & Glam Icons 2022

His aspiration is to make youth a grand-brand, showing a path to them, enhance their persona to a greater degree. Pankaj Purohit was honoured with the Youth Icon Award 2022 at the Mid-day Glitz & Glam Icons 2022.


What exemplifies filmmaker Pankaj Purohit is motivating youngsters to unleash their true potential. He is an active listener and acts as a catalyst for self-discovery and thus provides an outlet for the individual to channelise their passions. He believes in the curriculum of the Renaissance. Purohit strives in giving wings to the dreams of the youth by delving deeper into their lives. He mentors them to create stronger relationship with their parents, siblings, friends and even competitors or peer group. He attributes to the technological advancements and is convinced it can be used to learn newer things in the best possible way. His interactive sessions with the youth and aspirants strengthen their innate value system and bring about the much needed development of the society.



Filmmaker Pankaj Purohit has been inspiring the youth with his unparallelled contribution by being the guiding light in their professional and personal lives. At the same time volunteering and working towards harnessing their potential in a productive manner by engaging the youth and actively paricipating in shaping the lives of the youngsters. A true stalwart in his craft being honored with the Youth lcon award 2022 by Mid-day.

Practising the ideology of comradeship, Purohit is constantly striving to reinforce quality development of the gen-next by leaps and bounds.

Pankaj Purohit was given away this award for his avant-garde steps taken in the form of mentoring and counseling during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2017, he was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Award as the best artist and social activist by late Honourable Chief Minster Sheila Dixit at a felicitation ceremony as appreciation to honour the young achievers. He believes that growth is at the core of existence. He firmly affirms mentoring as a gateway for mankind to expand and emphasizes that progress is the key to that gateway which makes every citizen a global citizen. He looks forward to establishing connection across the planet as well as producing global citizens. With a keen focus on creating a global impact through mentoring, he thrives to create independent thinkers. Recently, he participated at a panel in Columbia University, New York on a variety of topics.

Social service is a vital part of his work that he does for the development of the society through providing advocacy to the youth. Since his father is a lawyer, he has been brought up in an environment where social activism is clearly evident. Before Covid-19 pandemic struck, his humanitarian organisation had distributed food and chocolates to the underprivileged young girls in the provinces of Madhya Pradesh. And during the pandemic his organisation distributed bath soaps, sanitizers, water bottles, food and essential items to various people across Madhya Pradesh as Corona warriors.

In fact, Pankaj Purohit believes in humanity and continues to inspire the Indian youth with his knowledge, creativity and passion for life and work.

Dia Mirza was also awarded with the timeless beauty icon and Ranveer Shorey was also amongst the awardees at the  

Mid-day Glitz & Glam Icons 2022. 

Sonakshi Sinha and Huma Qureshi graced the event.

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