Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar Explained
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar |
Awarded For: | Young outstanding practitioners in the fields of music, dance and drama in India |
Sponsor: | Sangeet Natak Akademi |
Firstawarded: | 2006 |
Lastawarded: | 2023 |
Established: | 2006 |
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is an annual Indian award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi to outstanding artists under 40 who have demonstrated talent in the fields of music, dance and drama. The award is intended to provide national recognition to the artists in the early years of their careers. Every year up to 33 artists are selected. Award winners receive a prize of . The award has been conferred since 2006.[1] [2]
Recipients
Other major traditions of Music
- 2013-14 - Yumnam Bhumeshwor Singh
- Nata Sankirtana Pung
Theatre
Play writing
- 2016 - Manish Joshi
- 2017 - Kuldeep Kunal
Theatre direction
- 2008 - Amitesh Grover
- 2012 - Nalini Nihar Nayak
- 2018 - Dr. Chavan Pramod R.
Acting
- 2018 - Namrata Sharma
- 2018 - Sunil Palwal
- 2018 - Preeti Jha Tiwari
- 2012 - Happy Ranajit
Traditional theatre
- 2016 - Jayachandra Varma Rekandar
Dance
Bharatnatyam
- 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
- 2018 - Renjith & Vijna
- 2019 - Sudipa Ghosh
- 2020 - Mithun Shyam
- 2021 - Pavitra Krishna Bhat
Chhau
- 2011 - Dilip Chandra Mahato
- 2014 - Satish Kumar Modak, Lokanath Das
Kathakali
- 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
- 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
- 2021 - Rudra Shankar Mishra
- 2023 - Megh Ranjani Medhi
Kuchipudi
- 2006 - Vedantam Venkata Nagachalapathi Rao
- 2007 - Yamini Reddy
- 2008 - Arunima Kumar
- 2009 - Chinta Ravi Bala Krishna
- 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
- 2021 - Avijit Das
- 2021 - Sreelakshmi Govardhanan
Manipuri
- 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
- 2022 - Dr Urmika Maibam
Mohiniattam
- 2007 - Methil Devika
- 2009 - Manjula B. Murthy
- 2014 - Saji Menon
- 2016 - Kalamandalam Rachitha Ravi
- 2020 - Rekha Raju - Overall contribution to performing arts
Odissi
- 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
Sattriya
- 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
- 2018 - Anjali Borbora Borthakur
- 2019 - Prabhat Kakoti
- 2020 - Jollymoni Saikia
- 2021 - Deepjyoti Das
- 2021 - Dipankar Arandhara
Contemporary / Experimental dance
- 2010 - Madhu Nataraj
- 2012 - Preethi Balachandran Athreya
- 2014 - Vikram Iyengar
- 2015 - Shilpika Bordoloi
- 2017 - Sudesh Adhana
Other major traditions of dance and theatre
- 2008 - Purvadhanshree (Vilasini Natyam)
- 2014 - Sangeeth Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
Music
Carnatic
Flute
Hindustani
Sitar
Vocal
- 2012 - Kumar Mardur, Bhuvanesh Komkali
- 2013 - Arshad Ali Khan
- 2016 - Koushik Aithal, Yashasvi Sirpotkar
- 2007- Sandeep Deshmukh
Tabla
- 2012 - Savani Talwalkar
- 2018 - Pt. Shubh Maharaj
- 2015 - Anubrata Chatterjee
Sarod
Folk music
Creative and experimental music
Puppetry
- 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
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- 2018 - Chandan Tiwari (Folk Music, Bihar)
- 2018 - Dinesh Kumar Jangde (Panthi Dance, Chhattisgarh)
- 2018 - Manoj Kumar Das (Traditional Music [<nowiki/>[[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
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.
Notes and References
- News: 25 November 2022 . Sangeet Natak Akademi to felicitate 86 artistes . en-IN . . 2 December 2022 . 0971-751X.
- Web site: Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar . 2 December 2022 . Sangeet Natak Akademi.
- Web site: Announcement of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the Year 2018. Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
- Web site: Sangeet Natak Akademi Announces Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for the Year 2018. pib.gov.in. 2019-10-18.