Padma Awards 2019: Prabhu Deva, Shankar Mahadevan, Manoj Bajpai among others conferred with nation’s prestigious award
Padma Awards 2019: Prabhu Deva, Shankar Mahadevan, Manoj Bajpai among others conferred with nation’s prestigious award
Padma Awards is the most prestigious award it is the highest civilian awards of India and only selected people from all over the country gets. On the eve of Republic Day, the names of those who will be getting the most prestigious Padma Awards were announced. Today, on 16th March the awards were distributed in Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi by President Ram Nath Kovind.
The awards are basically categorised into three types namely Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shree. The list also included celebrities from Bollywood and South Indian Cinema some are dancer-choreographer Prabhu Deva, musician Shankar Mahadevan Narayan, actor Manoj Bajpai among others.
Check out the list below:
PADMA VIBHUSHAN
Balwant Moreshwar Purandare - Art-Acting-Theatre – Maharashtra
PADMA BHUSHAN
Budhaditya Mukherjee - Art-Music-Sitar - West Bengal
Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair - Art-Acting-Film – Kerala
PADMA SHREE
Rajeshwar Acharya - Art-Vocal-Hindustani - Uttar Pradesh
Manoj Bajpayee - Art-Acting-Films – Maharashtra
Pritam Bhartwan - Art-Vocals-Folk – Uttarakhand
Swapan Chaudhuri - Art-Music-Tabla - West Bengal
Dinyar Contractor - Art-Acting-Theatre – Maharashtra
Thanga Darlong - Art-Music-Flute - Tripura
Prabhu Deva - Art-Dance - Karnataka
Joravarsinh Jadav - Art (Dance Folk) – Gujarat
K G Jayan - Art-Music-Bhakti – Kerala
Waman Kendre - Art-Acting-Theatre – Maharashtra
Shankar Mahadevan Narayan - Art-Vocals-Films – Maharashtra
Anup Ranjan Pandey - Art-Music – Chhattisgarh
Milena Salvini (Foreigner) - Art-Dance (Kathakali) – France
Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry - Art-Lyrics - Telangana
Anandan Sivamani - Art-Music - Tamil Nadu
Rajeev Tharanath - Art-Music-Sarod – Karnataka
Hiralal Yadav - Art-Vocals-Folk - Uttar Pradesh
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