Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2010

on 22 July 2011 , Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Akademi Awards for 2010 were presented by Vice-President of India, M. Hamid Ansari. The honour of Akademi Ratna (Akademi Fellow) is restricted to 30 living personalities.

•In the field of music, nine artists received the award. The awardees are as follows:

 Chhanu Lal Mishra and Yashpaul for Hindustani Vocal Music,

Budhaditya Mukherjee (Sitar) and Nityanand Haldipur (Flute) for Hindustani Instrumental Music,

Suguna Purushothaman and Mysore Nagamani Srinath for Carnatic Vocal music,

 Nagai R Muralidharan (Violin) and Srimushnam V. Rajarao (Mridangam) for Carnatic Instrumental Music,  M. V. Simhachala Sastry (Harikatha) for Other Major Traditions of Music.

• In the field of dance, nine practitioners received the award. The winners are:

 Malabika Mitra (Kathak),

Kalamandalam Kombil Gopala Vasudevan Nair (Kathakali),

 Phanjoubam Iboton Singh (Manipuri),

Rathna Kumar (Kuchipudi),

Aruna Mohanty (Odissi), Manik Borbayan (Sattriya),

Uttara Asha Coorlawala (Creative & Experimental),

Kalamandalam Raman Chakyar (Other Major Traditions of Dance & Dance Theatre - Kutiyattam),

and S Rajeswari (Music for Dance – Bharatanatyam)

• In the field of theatre eight persons were honoured.

D Vizai Bhaskar (Telugu) and Atamjit Singh (Punjabi), {both are playwrights}

 Veenapani Chawla and Urmil Kumar Thapaliyal, {both are directors}

Dilip Phabhavalkar, Banwari Taneja, Maya Krishna Rao and Swatilekha Sengupta. { all are actors}

 Harbhajan Singh Namdhari, Nazeer Ahmad Khan Warsi & Naseer Ahmad Khan Warsi, Dwijen Mukherjee, T. Somasundaram, Krishna Kumari, Chandatai Jagdish Tiwadi (Bharud folk theatre of Maharashtra), K. Chinna Anjanamma  were some of the artists to receive the award for their contribution to other Traditional/Folk/ Tribal Music/ Dance/ Theatre forms.  Ashok D. Ranade was honoured with the Award for his scholarship in music and Jaidev Taneja for his overall contribution to theatre.

The highest honour of Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna Sadasyata) was conferred on eminent vocalist Girija Devi, renowned dance guru Nataraja Ramakrishna, Dhrupad maestro Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar, and Mridangam vidwan T. K. Murthy.