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
President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Prof. Rajeshwar Acharya for Arts. A doyen of Hindustani Classical vocal music from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, he is also an academician and jaltarang player pic.twitter.com/yvJi6PG76g
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 16, 2019
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
President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Shri Manoj Bajpayee for Art (Cinema). A renowned film actor, he is known for his versatile roles and has worked in more than 60 films pic.twitter.com/m0fmuIDwe7
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 16, 2019
President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Shri Prabhu Deva for Art. A choreographer, film director, producer and actor, he has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada films. In a career spanning 25 years, he has performed and designed a wide range of dancing styles pic.twitter.com/fb57dGJ7m1
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 11, 2019
President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Shri Dinyar R. Contractor for Art. He is a popular theatre actor and a film personality. pic.twitter.com/2RbMKWrGpK
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) March 16, 2019
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
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— Zoom TV (@ZoomTV) March 11, 2019
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— Narahari (@narahari24) March 11, 2019
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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First published: 16 March 2019, 15:58 IST