| Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar | |
|---|---|
| Sponsored by | Sangeet Natak Akademi |
| Country | India |
| First awarded | 2006 |
| Last awarded | 2018 |
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar (Akademi Award) is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi to outstanding artists under 40 who have demonstrated talent in the fields of music, dance and Theatre.[1][2] Every year 32 artists are selected. Award winners receive a prize of Rs 25000 (US$350) from the chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi in a special ceremony.
Recipients[edit | edit source]
Theatre[edit | edit source]
Play Writing[edit | edit source]
- 2016 - Manish Joshi
- 2017 - Kuldeep Kunal
Theatre Direction[edit | edit source]
- 2018 - Dr. Chavan Pramod R.
Acting[edit | edit source]
- 2018 - Namrata Sharma
- 2018 - Sunil Palwal
- 2018 - Preeti Jha Tiwari
Traditional Theatre[edit | edit source]
- 2016 - Jayachandra Varma Rekandar
Dance[edit | edit source]
Bharatnatyam[edit | edit source]
- 2006 - Sheejith Krishna
- 2007 - C. Lavanya Ananth
- 2008 - Gayatri Balagurunathan
- 2009 - Ragini Chander Shekar
- 2010 - Praveen Kumar
- 2011 - Meenakshi Srinivasan
- 2012 - Uma Sathya Narayanan
- 2014 - Lavanya Sankar, Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya
- 2015 - Shijith Nambiar & Parvathi Menon (Joint Award)
- 2016 - Jyotsna Jagannathan
- 2017 - Parshwanath Upadhye
Chhau[edit | edit source]
- 2011 - Dilip Chandra Mahato
- 2014 - Satish Kumar Modak, Lokanath Das
Kathakali[edit | edit source]
- 2006 - Kalamandalam Pradeep Kumar
- 2007 - Kalamandalam Shanmukhadas C
- 2008 - Vijay Kumar N
- 2010 - M. Amaljith
- 2011 - Renjini K. P.
- 2012 - Kalamandalam Harinarayanan.A
- 2014 - Kalamandalam Arun Warrier
- 2015 - Thulasi kumar Sudhakaran
- 2017 - C.M. Unnikrishnan
Kathak[edit | edit source]
- 2006 - Prashant Shah
- 2007 - Sharvari Ashok Jamenis
- 2008 - Gauri Diwakar
- 2009 - Monisa Nayak
- 2010 - Pallabi De
- 2011 - Namrata Pamnani
- 2012 - Anuj Mishra
- 2014 - Souvik Chakraborty, Sandeep Mahavir
- 2015 - Vishal Krishna, Divya Goswami Dikshit
- 2016 - Sanjukta Sinha
- 2017 - Vidha Lal
- 2018 - Durgesh Gangani
Kuchipudi[edit | edit source]
- 2006 - Vedantam Venkata Nagachalapathi Rao
- 2007 - Yamini Reddy
- 2008 - Arunima Kumar
- 2009 - Chinta Ravi Balakrishna
- 2010 - Yeleswarapu Srinivasulu
- 2011 - Kuravi Venkata Subrahmanya Prasad
- 2012 - Vedantam Satya Narasimha Sastry
- 2014 - Prateeksha Kashi, Mosalikanti Jaikishore
- 2015 - Boby Chakraborty
- 2016 - Pasumarthi Mruthyunjaya
- 2017 - Bhavana Reddy
Manipuri[edit | edit source]
- 2006 - Sijagurumayum Nimita Devi
- 2007 - Laishram Bina Devi
- 2008 - Bimbavati Devi
- 2009 - Hanlem Indu Devi
- 2011 - Gurumayum Chandan Devi
- 2012 - Sinam Basu Singh
- 2015 - Pukhrambam Bilash Singh
- 2016 - Sanjenbam Karuna Devi
- 2017 - Adhikarimayum Radhamanbi Devi
- 2018 - Dr Manju Elangbam
Mohiniattam[edit | edit source]
- 2007 - Methil Devika
- 2009 - Manjula B. Murthy
- 2014 - Saji Menon
- 2016 - Kalamandalam Rachitha Ravi
Odissi[edit | edit source]
- 2006 - Bijayini Satpathy, Leena Mohanty
- 2007 - Madhusmita Mohanty
- 2008 - Rahul Acharya
- 2009 - Lingaraj Pradhan
- 2010 - Arushi Mudgal
- 2011 - Sonali Mohapatra
- 2012 - Yudhisthir Nayak
- 2014 - Rajashri Prahraj
- 2016 - Shashwati Garai Ghosh
- 2017 - Janhabi Behera
- 2018 - Madhulita Mohapatra [3]
Sattriya[edit | edit source]
- 2008 - Meerananda Barthakur
- 2009 - Menaka P.P. Bora
- 2010 - Naren Barua
- 2012 - Bhabananda Barbayan
- 2014 - Mridusmita Das, Anwesa Mahanta
- 2015 - Seujpriya Borthakur
- 2016 - Usharani Baishya
Contemporary /Experimental Dance[edit | edit source]
- 2010 - Madhu Nataraj
- 2012 - Preethi Balachandran Athreya
- 2014 - Vikram Iyengar
- 2015 - Shilpika Bordoloi
- 2017 - Sudesh Adhana
Other Major Traditions of Dance & Dance Theatre[edit | edit source]
- 2008 - Purvadhanshree (Vilasini Natyam)
- 2014 - Sangeeth Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
Music[edit | edit source]
Hindustani[edit | edit source]
Sitar[edit | edit source]
- 2018 - Dhruv Bedi [4]
Vocal[edit | edit source]
- 2016 - Koushik Aithal, Yashasvi Sirpotkar
Tabla[edit | edit source]
- 2015 - Anubrata Chatterjee
Sarod[edit | edit source]
- 2016 - Abir hussain
Folk Music[edit | edit source]
- 2017 -Sarbeswar Bhoi
Puppetry[edit | edit source]
- 2006 - Anurupa Roy (Delhi)
- 2008 - Sudarshan K.V (Kerala)
- 2012 - Moumita Adak (West Bengal)
- 2014 - Mohammad Shameem (Delhi)
- 2014 - Shreeparna Gupta (West Bengal)
- 2015 - Choiti Ghosh (Delhi)
- 2016 - Rajeev Pulavar (Kerala)
- 2016 - S Gopi (Tamilnadu)
- 2018 - Chandni Zala (Gujarat)
Other Traditional / Folk / Tribal Dance / Music[edit | edit source]
- 2018 - Chandan Tiwari (Folk Music, Bihar)
- 2018 - Dinesh Kumar Jangde ( Panthi Dance, Chhattisgarh)
- 2018 - Manoj Kumar Das (Traditional Music [Khol], Assam)
- 2018 - A. Aneshori Devi (Traditional & Folk Music, Manipur)
- 2018 - P. Rajkumar (Folk Dance, Tamil Nadu)
- 2018 - Madhushree Hatial (Folk Music [Jhumar], West Bengal)
- 2018 - Ashok Kumar (Folk Music, Uttar Pradesh)
Controversies[edit | edit source]
In 2018, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, sons of Amjad Ali Khan, and both then above 35, were selected for the 2017 award in their respective fields, but refused the award stating that it should be awarded to younger musicians.[6]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Sangeet Natak Akademi, retrieved 21 February 2019
- ↑ Introduction of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar, retrieved 22 February 2019
- ↑ OutlookIndia, retrieved 18 July 2019
- ↑ "Announcement of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the Year 2018" (PDF). Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
- ↑ "Sangeet Natak Akademi Announces Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for the Year 2018". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ↑ Times of India, retrieved 22 February 2019