NEW DELHI: Music maestro Vanraj Bhatia, best known for composing music for most of Shyam Benegal’s films will be honoured with Tagore Akademi Ratna award by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He has earlier been the recipient of National Film award and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
Twenty nine eminent personalities and scholars will be conferred with Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Fellowships and thirty four art practitioners and gurus in the field of music dance and drama will receive the Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Award.
West Bengal governor M K Narayanan will honour the recipients at a special ceremony to be hosted on 25 April in Kolkata.
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Of the 100 honours, 50 are Fellows with purse money of Rs. 300,000, a Tamrapatra and an Angavastram and the remaining 50 are awards with purse money of Rs. 100,000, a Tamrapatra and an Angavastram.
Other noted personalities from the world of cinema who are being honoured with the Akademi Ratna include filmmaker Buddhadeb Das Gupta, danseuse and former actress Ms Vyjayanthimala Bali and actor MK Saroja. In addition, Ad Guru Alyque Padamsee, theatre personality Satya Dev Dubey, musicians Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Sabri Khan, MS Gopalakrishnan, dance exponent Mayadhar Raut, and Amala Shankar also figure in the list of Akademi Ratna.
Those getting the Tagore Akademi Puraskar include 13 in the field of music, eleven in dance, eight in theatre of which one is joint to Gopala Sharman and Jalabala Vaidya, and thirteen for traditional/folk/tribal/dance/music/theatre and puppetry.
In addition, five persons have been awarded for overall contribution/scholarship in performing arts:
M L Varadpande, B M Sundaram, Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere, Raja Mrigendra Singh, and Nilamadhab Panigrahi.
The full list of awardees is:
TAGORE AKADEMI RATNA
1. SATGURU JAGJIT SINGH NAMDHARI
2. B. RAJANIKANTA RAO
3. P V KRISHNAMOORTHY
4. LAXMI NARAYAN GARG
5. B N GOSWAMY
6. BIRENDRANATH DATTA
7. M NAGABHUSHANA SARMA
8. PRABHA ATRE
9. LAXMAN KRISHNARAO PANDIT
10. ZIA FARIDUDDIN DAGAR
11. GHULAM MUSTAFA WARIS KHAN
12. ABDUL HALIM JAFFER KHAN
13. RAM NARAYAN
14. SABRI KHAN
15. BUDDHADEV DAS GUPTA
16. SRIPADA PINAKAPANI
17. R.K. SRIKANTAN
18. NEDUNURI KRISHNA MURTHY
19. M.S. GOPALAKRISHNAN
20. NATESAN RAMANI
21. VELLORE G. RAMABHADRAN
22. GURUVAYUR DORAI
23. VANRAJ BHATIA
24. VYJAYANTIMALA BALI
25. KALANIDHI NARAYANAN
26. M K SAROJA
27. KUMUDINI LAKHIA
28. MANKOMPU SIVASANKARA PILLAI
29. MAYADHAR RAUT
30. PASUMARTHY VENUGOPALA KRISHNA SARMA
31. MAYA RAO
32. AMALA SHANKAR
33. P K NARAYANAN NAMBIAR
34. SATYA DEV DUBEY
35. VIJAYA FAROKH MEHTA
36. RAJINDER NATH
37. RUDRA PRASAD SENGUPTA
38. ALYQUE PADAMSEE
39. SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE
40. V. RAMAMURTHY
41. MOHIT CHATTOPADHYAYA
42. R. NAGARATHNAMMA
43. GURCHARAN SINGH RAGI
44. YAMUNABAI WAIKAR
45. T.R. KAMALA MURTHY
46. LALIT CHANDRA OJHA
47. SONAM TSHERING LEPCHA
48. ARGHYA SEN
49. KARTAR SINGH
50. G GOURAKISHOR SHARMA
TAGORE AKADEMI PURASKAR
MUSIC
1. SHANKAR LAL MISHRA – HINDUSTANI VOCAL
2. SUNANDA PATNAIK – HINDUSTANI VOCAL
3. GANESH PRASAD SHARMA – HINDUSTANI VOCAL
4. AMIYA RANJAN BANERJEE – HINDUSTANI VOCAL
5. SHRIKRISHNA S HALDANKAR – HINDUSTANI VOCAL
6. FAIYAZ KHAN – HINDUSTANI INSTRUMENTAL (TABLA)
7. TANJAVUR SANKARA IYER – CARNATIC VOCAL
8. KUMARAPILLAI VELUKUTTY NAIR – CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL(MRIDANGA)
9. S.R.G. RAJANNA – CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL(NAGASWARAM)
10. K. CHELLAIAH – CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL (THAVIL)
11. MAYAVARAM SARASWATHI – CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL (FLUTE)
12. R VISWESWARAN – CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL (VEENA)
13. KARAM CHAOBA SINGH – OTHER MAJOR TRADITIONS OF MUSIC-
SANKIRTAN (ARIBA PALA)
DANCE
1. S. SWAMINATHAN – BHARATANATYAM
2. N.S. JAYALAKSHMI – BHARATANATYAM
3. RAJEE NARAYAN – BHARATANATYAM
4. CHEMANC.HERI KUNHIRAMAN NAIR – KATHAKALI
5. NATTUVAN PARAMASIVA MENON – KATHAKALI
6. DEVJANI CHALIHA – MANIPURI
7. BHAGAVATHULA YAGNA NARAYANA SARMA- KUCHIPUDI
8. RITHA DEVI MUKHOPADHYAYA – ODISSI
9. HARICHARAN SAIKIA – SATTRIYA
10. PATRAAYANI SANGEETHA RAO – MUSIC FOR DANCE
11. BHAGAVATULA SEETARAMA SARMA – MUSIC FOR DANCE
THEATRE
1. BIJOY KUMAR MISHRA – PLAYWRITING
2. K.M. RAGHAVAN NAMBIAR – PLAYWRITING
3. PRASAD SAWKAR – ACTING
4. CHATLA SREERAMULU – ACTING
5. SUSHMA SETH – ACTING
6. JAYMALA JAYRAM SHILEDAR – ACTING
7. MADHUKAR TORADMAL – DIRECTION
8. JALABALA VAIDYA & GOPAL SHARMAN – DIRECTION
(JOINT AWARD)
TRADITIONAL / FOLK / TRIBAL / DANCE / MUSIC / THEATRE AND PUPPETRY
1. ZAHOOR MIR – FOLK THEATRE, HARYANA
2. ABUNGBAM KABUI – TRIBAL DANCE, MANIPUR
3. GAMBHARI DEVI – FOLK MUSIC, HIMACHAL PRADESH
4. ALI MOHAMAD BHAGAT – BHAND PATHER, JAMMU &KASHMIR
5. GOPIRAM BORGAYAN – TRADITIONAL MUSIC, ASSAM
6. SUMITRA SEN – RABINDRA SANGEET, WEST BENGAL
7. BISHWA BANDHU – FOLK DANCE, BIHAR
8. HIRA LAL YADAV – BIRHA FOLK MUSIC, UTTAR PRADESH
9. RAMSAHAYA PANDEY – FOLK DANCE, MADHYA PRADESH
10. SATEMMEREN LONGKUMER – FOLK SONG, NAGALAND
11. RADHA KRISHNA KADAM – FOLK THEATRE, MAHARASTRA
12. ANASUYA DEVI – FOLK MUSIC, ANDHRA PRADESH
13. MAHIPATRAY KAVI – CONTEMPORARY PUPPETRY, GUJARAT
OVERALL CONTRIBUTION / SCHOLARSHIP IN PERFORMING ARTS
1. M L VARADPANDE
2. B M SUNDARAM
3. RAMCHANDRA CHINTAMAN DHERE
4. RAJA MRIGENDRA SINGH
5. NILAMADHAB PANIGRAHI
