Padma Awards 2024: The authorities on Thursday introduced the winners of Padma Awards 2024. These awards are given within the fields of arts, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, commerce and business, medication, literature and schooling, sports activities, civil companies, and so on. The Padma Awards are conferred in three classes together with Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri. Let’s check out some key figures from the sphere of leisure, artwork and tradition who’ve been honoured by the federal government.

Padma Vibhushan 2024 winners

Vyjayantimala Bali – Tamil Nadu

Konidela Chiranjeevi – Andhra Pradesh

Padma Subrahmanyam – Tamil Nadu

Padma Bhushan 2024 winners

Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt – Maharashtra

Mithun Chakraborty – West Bengal

Usha Uthup – West Bengal

Vijaykanth – Tamil Nadu

Pyarelal Sharma – Maharashtra

Folk artists honoured with Padma Shri

Ratan Kahar

Famous Bhadu people singer Ratan Kahar of Birbhum has devoted greater than 60 years to people music. He is thought for his charming roles in Jatra people theatre. He focuses on Bhadu competition songs and genres like Tusu, Jhumur, and Alqaab. His composition ‘Boro Loker Biti Lo’ is standard. Despite monetary constraints and coming from a laborer household, he began singing on the age of 16 and left an indelible mark.

Om Prakash Sharma

Omprakash Sharma promoted ‘Maach’, the 200-year-old conventional dance drama of the Malwa area for greater than seven a long time. He wrote scripts for Mach theater productions and reworked Sanskrit performs within the Mach type. He skilled college students at NSD Delhi and Bharat Bhawan Bhopal whereas serving as a instructor. Coming from a humble background, Omprakash realized the artwork from his father beneath Ustad Kaluram Mach Akhara

Narayanan E P

Narayanan E P has devoted six a long time to selling the standard artwork of Theyyam. Experienced Theyyam people dancer from Kannur – She has mastered the artwork of transferring from dance to your complete Theyyam ecosystem together with costume designing and face portray strategies. At the age of 5, he started his six-decade-long profession. He carried out the artwork in 300 performances in 20 kinds of Theyyam. Theyyam is an historical people ritual combining theatre, music, mime, and dance, often carried out in entrance of the village temple with musical devices like chenda, flathalam, and kurumkujal. He began as a driver, now working dedicatedly for the preservation of this artwork.

Bhagwat Padhan

Bhagwat Padhan is the exponent of the Sabda Nritya people dance of Bargarh. He devoted greater than 5 a long time of his life to preserving and popularizing the artwork kind thought-about to be the dance of Mahadev. His lifelong efforts have contributed considerably to the preservation of this dance kind, together with coaching greater than 600 dancers. Worked as a decrease major faculty instructor in the course of the Sixties. During this time he confronted monetary challenges however by no means gave up his dedication to his artwork.

Badarappan M

Badarappan M is an exponent of Valli Oyil Kummi people dance from Coimbatore. It is a hybrid type of tune and dance efficiency, depicting the tales of the gods ‘Murugan’ and ‘Valli’. Despite being a predominantly male-dominated artwork, Badarappan believed in girls empowerment and thus broke this custom and skilled girls artists.

Gaddam Sammayya

Gaddam Sammayya has highlighted social points by way of Chindu Yakshaganam performances for over 5 a long time. He has achieved greater than 19,000 exhibits to date. Chindu Yaksha Arthula Sangham and Gaddam Sammaiya Youth Art Skethram have been established to promote this artwork. Coming from a humble background, Sammayya began work as an agricultural laborer and realized the artwork from his mother and father.

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