Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Award Information
Category	Performing arts
Instituted	1952
Last Awarded	2010
Awarded by	Sangeet Natak Akademi
Description	Award for performing arts in India
Award Rank
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship ← Sangeet Natak Akademi Award →

Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Award) is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. It is the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists. The award consists since 2003 of Rs. 50,000, a citation, an angavastram (a shawl), and a tamrapatra (a brass plaque). The awards are given in the categories of music, dance, theatre, other traditional/folk/tribal/dance/music/theatre and Puppetry, and contribution/scholarship in performing arts.

Award recipients

Music

Hindustani music

Vocal

• 1952 – Mushtaq Hussain Khan
• 1953 – Kesarbai Kerkar
• 1954 – Rajab Ali Khan
• 1955 – Anant Manohar Joshi
• 1956 – Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale
• 1957 – Rasoolan Bai
• 1958 – Ganesh Ramachandra Behere
• 1959 – Krishnarao Shankar Pandit
• 1960 – Altaf Hussain Khan
• 1961 – Y. S. Mirashi Buwa
• 1962 – Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
• 1963 – Omkarnath Thakur
• 1964 – Rahimuddin Khan Dagar
• 1965 – Hirabai Barodekar
• 1966 – Siddheswari Devi
• 1967 – Amir Khan
• 1968 – Mogubai Kurdikar
• 1969 – Ramchatur Mallick
• 1970 – Nisar Hussain Khan
• 1971 – Mallikarjun Mansur
• 1972 – Begum Akhtar
• 1973 – Gangubai Hangal
• 1974 – Kumar Gandharva
• 1975 – Bhimsen Joshi
• 1976 – Narayanrao Vyas
• 1977 – Girija Devi
• 1978 – Khadim Hussain Khan
• 1979 – Sarachchandra Arolkar
• 1980 – Nivruttibua Sarnaik
• 1981 – Basavaraj Rajguru
• 1982 – Vasantrao Deshpande
• 1983 – Mahadev Prasad Mishra
• 1984 – Sharafat Hussain Khan
• 1985 – Kishori Amonkar, Aminuddin Dagar
• 1986 – Asgari Bai, Firoz Dastur, Manik Varma
• 1987 – C. R. Vyas, Shobha Gurtu, Pandit Jasraj
• 1988 – Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram
• 1989 – Jitendra Abhisheki
• 1990 – K. G. Ginde, Dhondutai Kulkarni
• 1991 – N. Zahiruddin Dagar, Prabha Atre
• 1992 – Ramarao V. Naik, Shiv Kumar Shukla
• 1993 – Bala Saheb Poochwale, Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
• 1994 – Sulochana Brahaspati, Zia Fariddudin Dagar
• 1995 – A. Kanan
• 1996 – Dinkar Kaikini, Hafeez Ahmad Khan
• 1997 – L. K. Pandit
• 1998 – Puttaraj Gawaigalu, Parveen Sultana, Rajan and Sajan Mishra
• 1999–2000 – Ajoy Chakraborty, Rita Ganguly, Malabika Kanan
• 2001 – Abhay Narayan Mallick, Sangameshwar Gurav, Malini Rajurkar
• 2002 – Sushila Rani Patel, Sharayu Kalekar
• 2003 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi
• 2004 – Balwant Rai Bhatt, Tejpal Singh and Surinder Singh
• 2005 – S. C. R. Bhat, Ramashreya Jha
• 2006 – Vijay Kumar Kichlu, Rashid Khan
• 2007 – Vidyadhar Vyas, Govardhan Mishra
• 2008 – Ulhas Kashalkar, M. R. Gautam
• 2009 – Abdul Rashid Khan, Vasundhara Komkali
• 2010 – Chhannulal Mishra, Yashpaul
• 2011 – Shruti Sadolikar, M. Venkatesh Kumar

Instrumental

• Been/Rudra Veena/Vichitra Veena
  • 1969 – Dabir Khan
  • 1977 – Asad Ali Khan
  • 1981 – Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
  • 1994 – Pandit Gopal Krishan
  • 1995 – Ahmad Raza Khan

• Flute
  • 1983 – Hari Prasad Chaurasia
  • 1986 – Devendra Murdeshwar
  • 1994 – Raghunath Seth
  • 2010 – Nityanand Haldipur

• Guitar
  • 2005 – Brij Bhushan Kabra

• Harmonium
  • 1999–2000 – Appa Jalgaonkar
  • 2005 – Tulsidas Vasant Borkar

• Pakhavaj
  • 1955 – Govind Rao Burhanpurkar
  • 1965 – Sakharam Tavde
  • 1967 – Ayodhya Prasad
  • 1978 – Purushottam Das
  • 1988 – Ramshankardas Pagaldas
  • 1991 – Chatrapati Singh
  • 1993 – Gopaldas Panse
  • 1995 – Ram Ashish Pathak
  • 2003 – Bhawani Shankar
  • 2011 – Totaram Sharma

• Santoor
  • 1986 – Shivkumar Sharma
  • 1993 – Bhajan Sopori

• Sarangi
  • 1966 – Shakoor Khan,
  • 1975 – Ram Narayan
  • 1976 – Gopal Misra
  • 1986 – Sabri Khan
  • 1988 – Hanuman Prasad Mishra
  • 1990 – Abdul Lateef Khan
  • 1992 – Sultan Khan
  • 1996 – Inderlal Dhandra
  • 2008 – Ramesh Mishra

• Sarod
  • 1952 – Allauddin Khan
  • 1953 – Hafiz Ali Khan
  • 1963 – Ali Akbar Khan
  • 1971 – Radhika Mohan Maitra
  • 1986 – Sharan Rani Backliwal
  • 1988 – Zarin Sharma
  • 1989 – Amjad Ali Khan
  • 1993 – Buddhadev Das Gupta
  • 1999–2000 – Rajeev Taranath
  • 2004 – Aashish Khan

• Shehnai
  • 1956 – Bismillah Khan
  • 1985 – Ali Hussain Khan
  • 1989 – Anant Lal
  • 1996 – Raghunath Prasanna
  • 2008 – Krishna Ram Chaudhary
  • 2009 – Ali Ahmad Hussain

• Sitar
  • 1958 – Yusuf Ali
  • 1960 – Wahid Khan
  • 1962 – Ravi Shankar
  • 1968 – Mustaq Ali Khan
  • 1974 – Nikhil Banerjee
  • 1987 – Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Imrat Khan (also Surbahar)
  • 1989 – Balram Pathak
  • 1992 – Uma Shankar Mishra
  • 1994 – Shamim Ahmed Khan
  • 1996 – Debu Chaudhuri
  • 2001 – Mani Lal Nag
  • 2003 – Arvind Parikh
  • 2006 – Shahid Parvez
  • 2010 – Budhaditya Mukherjee

• Surbahar
  • 1991 – Annapurna Devi
  • 2011 – Pushparaj Koshti

• Tabla
  • 1954 – Ahmed Jan Thirakwa
  • 1959 – Jahangir Khan
  • 1961 – Kanthe Maharaj
  • 1970 – Masit Khan
  • 1976 – Karamatulla Khan
  • 1979 – Samta Prasad Maharaj
  • 1982 – Alla Rakha
  • 1984 – Kishan Maharaj
  • 1990 – Zakir Hussain
  • 1991 – Shaikh Dawood
  • 1997 – Swapan Chaudhuri, Lalji Gokhale
  • 1998 – Pandharinath Gangadhar Nageshkar
  • 1999–2000 – Shankar Ghosh
  • 2002 – Suresh B. Gaitonde, Anindo Chatterjee
  • 2004 – Suresh Talwalkar
  • 2006 – Kumar Bose
  • 2007 – Nandan Mehta
  • 2009 – Lachman Singh Seen

• Violin
  • 1972 – Gajananrao Joshi
  • 1980 – V. G. Jog
  • 1990 – N. Rajam
  • 1995 – D. K. Datar
  • 1997 – Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury
  • 2007 – Ramoo Prasad Shastri

Carnatic music

Vocal

• 1952 – Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
• 1953 – Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer
• 1954 – Mysore K. Vasudevacharya
• 1955 – Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer
• 1956 – M. S. Subbulakshmi
• 1957 – Musiri Subramania Iyer
• 1958 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar
• 1959 – G. N. Balasubramaniam
• 1960 – Madurai Mani Iyer
• 1961 – Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer
• 1962 – D. K. Pattammal
• 1963 – B. Devendrappa
• 1964 – Chittoor S. Subramanyam
• 1965 – T. Brinda
• 1966 – M.R. Srirengam Iyengar
• 1967 – C. Venkata Rao
• 1968 – Alathur Srinivasa Iyer
• 1969 – Dandapani Desigar
• 1970 – M. L. Vasanthakumari
• 1971 – N. Channakeshaviah
• 1972 – T. Muktha
• 1973 – B.S. Raja Iyengar
• 1974 – M. D. Ramanathan
• 1975 – M. Balamurali Krishna
• 1976 – K.V.Narayanaswamy
• 1977 – Sripada Pinakapani
• 1978 – Madurai S. Somasundaram
• 1979 – R K Srikanthan
• 1980 – Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan
• 1981 – Radha and Jayalakshmi
• 1982 – T.M. Thiagarajan
• 1983 – D. K. Jayaraman
• 1984 – Maharajapuram V. Santhanam
• 1985 – Voleti Venkatesvarulu
• 1986 – B. Rajam Iyer
• 1986 – Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy
• 1987 – Madurai N. Krishnan
• 1987 – Mani Krishnaswami
• 1988 – Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
• 1989 – Titte Krishna Iyengar
• 1990 – T. V. Sankaranarayanan
• 1991 – S. Rajam
• 1992 – K.R. Kumaraswamy Iyer
• 1993 – Trichy Swaminathan Iyer
• 1994 – C.S. Krishna Iyer
• 1995 – R. Vedavalli
• 1996 – T.K. Govinda Rao
• 1997 – M.S. Balasubramanya Sarma
• 2000 - S. R. Janakiraman
• 2002 – T.R. Subramanyam
• 2003 – Trichur V. Ramachandran, M. A. Narasimhachar
• 2004 – Thiruvengadu A. Jayaraman, C. Saroja & C. Lalitha
• 2005 – S. V. Parthasarrathy, P. S. Narayanaswamy
• 2006 – D. Pasupathi, Chingleput Ranganathan
• 2007 – B. Krishnamoorti
• 2008 – Puranam Purushottama Sastri
• 2009 – Parassala B Ponnammal
• 2010 – Suguna Purushothaman, Mysore Nagamani Srinath

Instrumental

• Clarionet
  • 1994 – A. K. C. Natarajan

• Flute
  • 1954 – Palladam Sanjeeva Rao
  • 1961– T.N. Swaminatha Pillai
  • 1965 – T. R. Mahalingam
  • 1984 – Natesan Ramani
  • 1987 – T. Viswanathan
  • 1989 – Sikkil Sisters - Kunjumani & Neela
  • 1997 – Kesi Narayanaswamy
  • 1999–2000 – T.S. Sankaran
  • 2004 – Prapancham Sita Ram

• Ghatam
  • 1988 – Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram
  • 1995 – Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy

• Gottuvadhyam
  • 1958 – Budalur Krishnamurthi Sastri
  • 2006 – Chitravina N. Ravi Kiran

• Kanjira
  • 2001 – G. Harishankar

• Mandolin
  • 2009 – U. Srinivas

• Mridangam
  • 1956 – Palghat Mani Iyer
  • 1975 – C.S. Murugabhoopathy
  • 1979 – Kolanka Venkata Raju
  • 1983 – Palghat R. Raghu
  • 1987 – T. K. Murthy
  • 1990 – T. V. Gopalakrishnan
  • 1991 – Vellore G. Ramabhadran
  • 1992 – Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
  • 1994 – Dandamudi Rammohan Rao
  • 1996 – Guruvayur Dorai
  • 1998 – Karaikudi Mani
  • 1999–2000 V. Kamalakar Rao
  • 2002 – Yella Venkateshwara Rao
  • 2004 – Madras A. Kannan
  • 2006 – Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam
  • 2008 – Mannargudi A. Easwaran
  • 2009 – Dandamudi Sumathi Rama Mohan Rao
  • 2010 – Srimushnam Raja Rao

• Nadaswaram
  • 1955 – Thiruvaduthurai N. Rajratnam Pillai
  • 1962 – Dr.Thiruvengadu Subramania Pillai
  • 1966 – P.S. Veeruswamy Pillai
  • 1972 – T. S. Natarajasundaram Pillai
  • 1976 – Sheik Chinna Moulana
  • 1981 – Namagiripettai K. Krishnan
  • 1995 – Domada Chittiabbayi
  • 2005 – Ongale N. Rangaiah
  • 2007 – S. R. D. Vaithiyanathan

• Saxophone
  • 2003 – Kadri Gopalnath

• Thavil
  • 1985 – Valangaiman A. Shanmugasundaram Pillai
  • 1988 – Valayapatti A.R. Subramaniam
  • 2001 – Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel

• Veena
  • 1952 – Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
  • 1960 – L. Subramanya Sastri
  • 1968 – K.S. Narayanaswami
  • 1969 – Devakottai A. Narayana Iyengar
  • 1970 – Mysore V. Doreswamy Iyengar
  • 1973 – Emani Sankara Sastry
  • 1977 – Sundaram Balachander
  • 1980 – Tanjavur K.P. Sivanandam
  • 1986 – Raajeswari Padmanabhan
  • 1988 – R. Pichumani Iyer
  • 1990 – Chitti Babu
  • 1992 – M.K. Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar
  • 1993 – Kalpakam Swaminathan
  • 2001 – R.N. Doreswamy
  • 2002 – E. Gayathri
  • 2007 – Vidya Shankar

• Violin
  • 1953 – Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
  • 1957 – Tirumakudalu Chowdiah
  • 1959 – Kumbakonam Rajamanickkam Pillai
  • 1963 – T.K. Jayarama Iyer
  • 1964 – K.N. Chinnaswamy Iyer
  • 1967 – K.S. Venkataramiah 'Papa'
  • 1971 – Madurai S. Subramanya Iyer
  • 1974 – T. N. Krishnan
  • 1978 – Lalgudi Jayaraman
  • 1982 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan
  • 1986 – M. Chandrasekaran
  • 1988 – Chalakudy N.S. Narayanaswamy
  • 1989 – R.K. Venkatarama Sastry
  • 1991 – Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy
  • 1993 – Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
  • 1996 – Annavarapu Ramaswamy
  • 1997 – T. Rukmini
  • 1998 – M. S. Anantharaman
  • 1999–2000 R. R Keshava Murthy
  • 2003 – A. Kanyakumari
  • 2005 – V. V. Subrahmanyam
  • 2008 – B. Sasikumar
  • 2010 – Nagai R. Muralidharan

Creative and experimental music

• 1973 – Vishnudas Shirali
• 1976 – Timir Baran Bhattacharya
• 1978 – Rai Chand Boral
• 1982 – Vijay Raghav Rao
• 1983 – Chidambaram S. Jayaraman
• 1986 – Anil Biswas
• 1986 – M.B. Srinivasan
• 1986 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
• 1988 – Bhaskar Chandavarkar
• 1989 – Vanraj Bhatia
• 1990 – L. Subramaniam
• 1994 – V. Balsara
• 1995 – Atul Desai
• 1997 – Satish Bhatia
• 1998 – Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
• 2001 – S. Rajaram
• 2002 – K.P. Udayabhanu
• 2007 – Khayyam

Other major traditions of music

• 2008 – Ningombam Ibobi Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur)
• 2009 – L. Ibohalmacha Singh (Nata Sankirtana, Manipur)
• 2010 – M.V. Simhachala Sastry (Harikatha, Tirupathi)

Dance

• Bharatanatyam
  • 1955 – T. Balasaraswati
  • 1957 – Rukmini Devi Arundale
  • 1959 – Mylapore Gouri Amma
  • 1962 – R. Muthurathnambal
  • 1965 – P. Chockkalingam Pillai
  • 1966 – Vazhuvoor B. Ramaiyya Pillai, Swarnasaraswathi
  • 1968 – Kamala
  • 1969 – T. K. Swaminatha Pillai
  • 1970 – Shanta Rao
  • 1971 – T. Chandrakanthamma
  • 1972 – Sikkil Ramaswami Pillai
  • 1973 – Kumbakonam K. Bhanumathi
  • 1974 – K. P. Kittappa Pillai
  • 1976 – M. Muthiah Pillai
  • 1977 – Yamini Krishnamurthy
  • 1979 – Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai
  • 1981 – Indrani Rahman
  • 1982 – Vyjayanthimala
  • 1983 – Padma Subramanyam
  • 1984 – Subramaniam Sarada, Sudharani Raghupathy
  • 1985 – T. K. Mahalingam Pillai
  • 1986 – Krishnaveni Lakshmanan
  • 1987 – U. S. Krishna Rao and Chandrabhaga Devi, Chitra Viswaswaran
  • 1989 – V. S. Muthuswamy Pillai
  • 1990 – Kalanidhi Narayanan
  • 1991 – Adyar K. Lakshman
  • 1992 – K. J. Sarasa
  • 1993 – Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar(Tanjavurkar), C. V. Chandrasekhar
  • 1994 – V. P. Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan
  • 1995 – M. K. Saroja, Indira Rajan
  • 1996 – Sarada Hoffman
  • 1997 – Kanaka Srinivasan
  • 1998 – Lakshmi Viswanathan
  • 1999–2000 – K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai, Leela Samson, H. R. Keshava Murthy
  • 2001 – Alarmel Valli, Pratibha Prahlad
  • 2002 – Malavika Sarukkai
  • 2003 – C.K. Balagopalan
  • 2004 – Nirmala Ramachandran
  • 2005 – R Rhadha
  • 2006 – S. Narmada
  • 2007 – Sucheta Bhide Chapekar
  • 2008 – Saroja Vaidyanathan
  • 2009 – Ananda Shankar Jayant

• Chhau
  • 1963 – Suddhendra Narayan Singh Deo (Seraikella)
  • 1971 – Ananta Charan Sai (Mayurbhanj)
  • 1975 – Krishna Chandra Naik (Mayurbhanj)
  • 1981 – Kedarnath Sahu (Seraikella)
  • 1982 – Gambhir Singh Mura (Purulia)
  • 1987 – Madan Mohan Lenka (Mayurbhanj)
  • 1988 – Srihari Nayak (Mayurbhanj)
  • 1990 – Bikram Kumbhakar (Seraikella)
  • 1991 – Chandra Sekhar Bhanj (Mayurbhanj)
  • 2004 – Shashadhar Acharya

• Creative dance/Choreography
  • 1960 – Uday Shankar
  • 1970 – Mrinalini Sarabhai
  • 1976 – Narendra Sharma
  • 1979 – Prabhat Ganguli
  • 1980 – R.K. Priyagopal Sana
  • 1981 – Parvati Kumar
  • 1984 – Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
  • 1989 – Maya Rao
  • 1991 – Chandralekha
  • 1992 – Sachin Shankar
  • 1993 – Manjusri Chaki Sircar
  • 1995 – Astad Deboo
  • 1999–2000 Mallika Sarabhai
  • 2001 – Gul Bardhan
  • 2002 – Sambhu Bhattacharya
  • 2005 – Th. Chaotombi Singh
  • 2006 – Gorima Hazarika
  • 2008 – Yogsunder Desai
  • 2009 – Daksha Sheth
  • 2010 – Uttara Asha Coorlawala

• Kathak
  • 1955 – Shambhu Maharaj
  • 1957 – Baijnath Prasad "Lacchu Maharaj"
  • 1959 – Sunder Prasad
  • 1962 – Mohan Rao Kallianpurkar
  • 1964 – Birju Maharaj
  • 1968 – Damayanti Joshi
  • 1969 – Sitara Devi
  • 1974 – Gauri Shankar Devilal Kathak
  • 1975 – Roshan Kumari
  • 1979 – Rohini Bhate
  • 1982 – Kartik Ram, Kumudini Lakhia
  • 1984 – Durga Lal
  • 1987 – Uma Sharma
  • 1991 – Reba Vidyarthi
  • 1995 – Ramlal Bareth
  • 1996 – Rani Karnaa
  • 1998 – Sunderlal Sathyanarayan Gangani
  • 1999–2000 – Shovana Narayan
  • 2002 – Rajendra Gangani
  • 2003 – Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal, Urmila Nagar
  • 2004 – Saswati Sen
  • 2005 – Tirath Ram Azad
  • 2006 – Munna Shukla
  • 2007 – Geetanjali Lal
  • 2008 – Shashi Sankhla
  • 2009 – Prerana Shrimali
  • 2010 – Malabika Mitra

• Kathakali
  • 1956 – Guru Kunchu Kurup
  • 1958 – Thotton K. Chandu Panikkar
  • 1961 – Thekinkatti Ramunni Nair
  • 1963 – Chenganoor Raman Pillai
  • 1965 – Guru Gopinath
  • 1967 – Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair
  • 1968 – Kurichi Kunjan Panickar
  • 1969 – Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair
  • 1970 – M. Vishnu Namboodiri
  • 1971 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair
  • 1972 – M. Madhava Panicker
  • 1973 – Velinezhi K. Nanu Nayar
  • 1973 – Kavungal Chathunni Panicker
  • 1974 – Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair
  • 1975 – K. Sankarankutty Panicker
  • 1983 – Champakulam Pachu Pillai
  • 1985 – Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai
  • 1987 – Kalamandalam Gopi
  • 1988 – Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair
  • 1989 – Oyoor Kochugovinda Pillai
  • 1991 – Chennithala Chellapan Pillai
  • 1993 – Kalamandalam Padmanabhan Nair
  • 1996 – Kottakkal Krishnan Kutty Nair
  • 1997 – Madavoor Vasudevan Nair
  • 1998 – Kottakkal Sivaraman
  • 1999–2000 Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri
  • 2003 – Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan
  • 2004 – Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody
  • 2005 – Mathoor Govindam Kutty
  • 2006 – Kottakkal Chandrasekharan
  • 2007 – Sadanam Krishnankutty
  • 2008 – Kalamandalam Kuttan
  • 2009 – Kalamandalam Rajan
  • 2010 – Kalamandalam K.G.Vasudevan

• Kuchipudi
  • 1961 – Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma ‘Satyam’
  • 1968 – Chinta Krishnamurthy
  • 1978 – C. Ramacharyalu
  • 1981 – Vempati Chinna Satyam
  • 1983 – Nataraj Ramakrishna (also Bharatanatyam)
  • 1985 – Vedantam Prahlada Sarma
  • 1987 – Pasumarthi Venugopala Krishna Sarma
  • 1990 – Sobha Naidu
  • 1991 – Raja Reddy and Radha Reddy
  • 1993 – Josyula Seetharamaiah
  • 1994 – Vedantam Parvateesam
  • 1998 – Jayarama Rao and Banashree Rao
  • 1999–2000 – Swapnasundari Rao
  • 2003 – K. Uma Rama Rao
  • 2004 – Pasumarthi Seetha Ramiah
  • 2005 – Korada Narasimha Rao
  • 2006 – Pasumarthi Rathiah Sarma
  • 2007 – Yelesarapu Nageswara Sarma
  • 2008 – Vasanta Lakshmi and Narasimhachari
  • 2009 – Vyjayanthi Kashi
  • 2010 – Ratna Kumar

• Manipuri
  • 1956 – Amubi Singh
  • 1958 – Haobam Atomba Singh
  • 1961 – T. Amudon Sharma
  • 1963 – Atombapu Sharma
  • 1965 – Bipin Singh
  • 1969 – Ojha Thangjam Chaoba Singh
  • 1972 – Kshetri Tombi Devi
  • 1973 – L. Koireng Singh
  • 1974 – L. Ibemhal Devi
  • 1975 – Rajani Maibi
  • 1976 – Ojha Maibam Ibungohal Singh
  • 1977 – Nayana Susheel Jhaveri
  • 1980 – L. Thouranishabi Devi
  • 1982 – L. Tombi Devi
  • 1985 – Khaidem Lokeshwar Singh
  • 1987 – Tarun Kumar Singh
  • 1988 – Ibopishak Sharma
  • 1990 – Th. Babu Singh
  • 1993 – H. Ngangbi Devi
  • 1994 – T. Nadia Singh
  • 1995 – L. Thambalangoubi Devi
  • 1996 – Darshana Jhaveri
  • 1997 – Samanduram Tondon Devi
  • 1998 – N. Madhabi Devi
  • 1999–2000 – Sorokhaibam Naran Singh
  • 2001 – Charu Sija Mathur
  • 2002 – K. Ongbi Leipaklotpi Devi
  • 2003 – Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi, Kalavati Devi
  • 2005 – K. Radhamohon Sharma
  • 2009 – L. Bino Devi
  • 2010 – Phanjoubam Iboton Singh

• Mohiniattam
  • 1972 – T. Chinnammu Amma
  • 1978 – K. Kalyanikutty Amma
  • 1994 – Kalamandalam V. Sathyabhama
  • 1998 – Kshemavathy Pavithran
  • 1999–2000 – Bharati Shivaji
  • 2004 – Kalamandalam Sugandhi
  • 2006 – Kalamandalam Vimala Menon
  • 2007 – Deepti Omchery Bhalla
  • 2008 – Kalamandalam Leelamma

• Music for dance
  • 2005 – Josyula Krishna Murthy (Kuchipudi Bhagavatha Maddalla)
  • 2006 – Kalamandalam Gangadharan (Kathakali Pattu)
  • 2008 – Ramhari Das (Orissi)
  • 2010 – S. Rajeswari (Bharatanatyam)

• Orissi
  • 1966 – Kelucharan Mohapatra
  • 1970 – Pankaj Charan Das
  • 1976 – Sanjukta Panigrahi (joint award with Raghunath Panigrahi for Orissi music)
  • 1977 – Deba Prasad Das
  • 1985 – Mayadhar Raut
  • 1986 – Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi
  • 1987 – Sonal Mansingh
  • 1992 – D. N. Pattnaik
  • 1994 – Kumkum Mohanty
  • 1995 – Raghunath Dutta
  • 1997 – Gangadhar Pradhan
  • 1999–2000 – Minati Mishra, Madhavi Mudgal
  • 2002 – Kiran Segal
  • 2003 – Hare Krishna Behera
  • 2004 – Durllav Chandra Singh
  • 2005 – Durga Charan Ranbir
  • 2006 – Surendra Nath Jena
  • 2007 – Ranjana Gauhar
  • 2008 – Ramani Ranjan Jena
  • 2009 – Geeta Mahalik
  • 2010 – Aruna Mohanty

• Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre
  • 2007 – Kalamandalam Sivan Nambootiri (Kutiyattam)
  • 2009 – Kala Krishna (Andhranatyam)
  • 2010 – Painkulam Rama Chakyar (Kutiyattam)

• Sattriya
  • 1963 – Maniram Datta Moktar
  • 1978 – Bapuram Bayan Attai
  • 1980 – Roseshwar Saikia Bayan Moktar
  • 1996 – Indira P. P. Bora
  • 1998 – Pradip Chaliha
  • 1999–2000 – Parmanand Borbayan
  • 2001 – Ghanakanta Bora
  • 2004 – Jatin Goswami
  • 2007 – Ganakanta Dutta Borbayan
  • 2010 – Manik Borbayan

Theatre

Acting

From 1952–2003 (language-wise)

• Assamese
  • 1961 – Mitradev Mahanta Adhikar
  • 2001 – Girish Chowdhury

• Bengali
  • 1958 – Ahindra Chowdhuri
  • 1962 – Tripti Mitra
  • 1967 – Sabitabrata Dutta
  • 1970 – Saraju Bala Devi
  • 1973 – Sova Sen
  • 1975 – Molina Devi
  • 1977 – Krishna Roy
  • 1983 – Kumar Roy
  • 1989 – Sekhar Chatterjee
  • 1995 – Satya Bandopadhyay
  • 1998 – Soumitra Chatterjee
  • 1999–2000 – Ketaki Dutta, Sabitri Chatterjee
  • 2003 – Saoli Mitra

• Gujarati
  • 1960 – Ashraf Khan
  • 1965 – Muljibhai Khushalbhai Nayak
  • 1968 – Jaswant D. Thaker
  • 1974 – Pransukh Manilal Nayak
  • 1980 – Dina Pathak (Gandhi)
  • 1988 – Sarita Joshi

• Hindi
  • 1979 – Amrish Puri
  • 1982 – Manohar Singh
  • 1984 – Uttara Baokar
  • 1985 – Fida Hussain
  • 1989 – Surekha Sikri
  • 1990– Naseeruddin Shah (also Urdu)
  • 1999–2000 Seema Biswas

• Kannada
  • 1955 – Gubbi Veeranna
  • 1961 – Mysore Venkatappa Subbaiya Naidu
  • 1985 – B. Jayamma
  • 1992 – R. Nagarathnamma
  • 1994 – Balappa Yenagi
  • 1996 – B. Jayashree
  • 2003 – C.R. Simha

• Malayalam
  • 1960 – C.I. Parameswarn Pillai
  • 1965 – V.T. Aravindaksha Menon
  • 1969 – N.N. Pillai

• Manipuri
  • 1991 – Sabitri Heisnam
  • 1997 – R.K. Bhogen

• Marathi
  • 1955 – Narayan Rao Rajhans 'Bal Gandharva'
  • 1956 – Ganesh Govind Bodas
  • 1957 – Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar
  • 1960 – Gopal Govind Pathak
  • 1964 – Keshav Trimbak Date
  • 1971 – Shreeram Lagoo
  • 1976 – Jyotsna Keshavrao Bhole
  • 1978 – Dattaram N. Walwaikar
  • 1981 – Chintamani Govind Pendse
  • 1983 – Dattatray Ramachandra Bhat
  • 1986 – Prabhakar V. Panshikar
  • 1987 – Sulabha Deshpande (also Hindi)
  • 1990 – Bhakti Barve Inamdar
  • 1991 – Neelu Phule
  • 1996 – Mohan Agashe

• Oriya
  • 1961 – Samuel Sahu

• Sanskrit
  • 1965 – Krishnachandra Moreshwar "Daji Bhatawadekar"

• Tamil
  • 1959 – Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar
  • 1962 – T.K. Shanmugam
  • 1967 – S.V. Sahasranamam
  • 1992 – Poornam Vishwanathan

• Telugu
  • 1961 – Sthanam Narasimha Rao
  • 1963 – Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao
  • 1973 – Kalyanam Raghuramaiah
  • 1986 – Peesapati Narasimha Murty

• Urdu
  • 1963 – Zohra Sehgal
  • 1994 – Uzra Butt

From 2004 onwards

• 2004 – Rohini Hattangady, Ramcharan Nirmalkar
• 2005 – Chindodi Leela
• 2006 – Dharani Barman, Gita Dey, K. Kaladharan Nair
• 2007 – Ramesh Mehta
• 2008 – Markand Bhatt, Arundhati Nag
• 2009 – Sudha Shivpuri, Neeta Mohindra
• 2010 – Dilip Prabhavalkar, Banwari Taneja, Maya Krishna Rao, Swatilekha Sengupta

Mime

• 1993 – Jogesh Dutta
• 2002 – Niranjan Goswami
• 2009 – Moinul Haque

Direction

• Prithviraj Kapoor 1956
• Bibhash Chakraborty 1989
• Jaishankar Bhojak 'Sundari' 1957
• Geoffrey Kendal & Laura Kendal (Joint Award) 1990
• Sombhu Mitra 1959
• Fritz Bennewitz 1991
• Kasambhai Nathubhai Mir 1961
• Mohan Maharishi 1992
• Ebrahim Alkazi 1962
• Kailash Pandya 1993
• T.S. Rajamanikkam 1964
• Barry John 1993
• Habib Tanvir 1969
• M K Raina 1995
• Adi Ferozeshah Marzban 1970
• Bansi Kaul 1995
• Satyadev Dubey 1971
• Purushottam Darwhekar 1996
• Shyamanand Jalan 1972
• Bhanu Bharti 1997
• Ajitesh Bandopadhyay 1973
• Amal Allana 1998
• Damodar Kashinath Kenkre 1974
• Dulal Roy 1998
• Vijaya Mehta 1975
• Usha Ganguly 1998
• B V Karanth 1976
• Balwant Thakur 1999–2000
• Rajinder Nath 1977
• Nadira Zaheer Babbar 1999–2000
• Jabbar Patel 1978
• Prasanna 1999–2000
• B.M. Shah 1979
• Shanta Gandhi 2001
• Rudra Prasad Sengupta 1980
• Arun Mukherjee 2002
• R.S. Manohar 1981
• Satish Anand 2002
• Sheila Bhatia 1982
• Devendra Raj Ankur 2003
• Kavalam Narayana Panikkar 1983
• Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry 2003
• Heisnam Kanhailal 1985
• Anuradha Kapoor 2004
• Alyque Padamsee 1986
• Arambam Lokendra Singh 2004
• Tarun Roy 1987
• Raj Besaria 2004
• Ratan Thiyam 1987
• N.C. Thakur 2007
• Harimadhab Mukherjee 2007
• Veenapani Chawla, Urmil Kumar Thapliyal 2010

Playwriting

• Assamese
  • 1986 – Satya Prasad Barua
  • 2003 – Aruna Sarma

• Bengali
  • 1968 – Badal Sircar
  • 1969 – Manmatha Ray
  • 1975 – Bijon Bhattacharya
  • 1985 – Manoj Mitra
  • 1991 – Mohit Chattopadhyaya

• Dogri
  • 2008 – Narsingh Dev Jamwal

• Gujarati
  • 1961 – Prabhulal Dayaram Dwivedi
  • 1971 – C.C. Mehta, Pragji Dossa,

• Hindi
  • 1965 – Upendra Nath Ashk
  • 1968 – Mohan Rakesh
  • 1977 – Lakshmi Narain Lal
  • 1988 – Dharamvir Bharati
  • 1992 – Surendra Verma
  • 2001 – Bhisham Sahni, D.P. Sinha
  • 2006 – Prabhat Kumar Bhattacharya
  • 2004 – Swadesh Deepak
  • 2007 – Reoti Sharan Sharna
  • 2008 – Mudra Rakshasa[

• Kannada
  • 1963 – Adya Rangacharya 'Shriranga'
  • 1972 – Girish Karnad
  • 1983 – Chandrashekhara Kambara
  • 1980 – Narasinga Rao Parwathavani
  • 1989 – G.B. Joshi
  • 1997 – H.S. Shiva Prakash

• Kashmiri
  • 1997 – Moti Lal Kemmu

• Malyalam
  • 1979 – G. Shankara Pillai
  • 1986 – K.T. Muhammad
  • 1997 – N. Krishna Pillai
  • 2009 – Vayala Vasudevan Pillai

• Manipuri
  • 2007 – Yumnam Rajendra Singh

• Marathi
  • 1958 – B.V. 'Mama' Warerkar
  • 1967 – P.L. Deshpande
  • 1970 – Vijay Tendulkar
  • 1976 – C.T. Khanolkar
  • 1982 – M.G. Rangnekar
  • 1984 – Vasant Shankar Kanetkar
  • 1987 – V.V. Shirwadkar
  • 1989 – Mahesh Elkunchwar
  • 1994 – Satish Alekar
  • 1996 – G.P. Deshpande
  • 2003 – Ratnakar Ramkrishna Matkari
  • 2009 – Shankar Narayan Navre

• Mizo
  • 2007 – Lathangfala Sailo

• Oriya
  • 1981 – Manorajan Das
  • 1987 – Gopal Chhotray

• Punjabi
  • 1993 – Gursharan Singh
  • 1998 – Balwant Gargi
  • 2010 – Atamjeet Singh

• Tamil
  • 1974 – S.D. Sundaram
  • 1999–2000 – Na. Muthuswamy
  • 2004 – Indira Parthasarathy

• Telugu
  • 2010 – D. Vizai Bhaskar

Allied Theatre Arts

• Lighting
  • 1974 – Tapas Sen
  • 1977 – V, Ramamurthy
  • 1989 – G.N. Dasgupta
  • 1994 – Kanishka Sen
  • 1999–2000 – R.K. Dhingra
  • 2002 – Ashok Sagar Bhagat
  • 2003 – Sreenivas G. Kappanna
  • 2005 – Suresh Bhardwaj

• Scenic Design
  • 1985 – Goverdhan Panchal
  • 1986 – Khaled Choudhury
  • 1988 – Dattatraya Ganesh Godse
  • 1997 – Mansukh Joshi
  • 1999–2000 – Robin Das
  • 2007 – Mahendra Kumar

• Costumes/Make-up
  • 1981 – Ashok Srivastava (Make-up)
  • 1990 – Roshan Alkazi (Costume Design)
  • 1999–2000 – Shakti Sen (Make-up)
  • 2001 – Dolly Ahluwalia (Costume Design)
  • 2003 – Anant Gopal Shinde (Make-up)
  • 2004 – Prema Karanth (Costume Design)
  • 2009 – Kamal Arora (Make-up)

• Music for Theatre
  • 1999–2000 – Kajal Ghosh
  • 1999–2000 – Kamal Tewari
  • 2009 – Kuldeep Singh

• Stagecraft
  • 1993 – M.S. Sathyu
  • 1995 – N. Krishnamoorthy
  • 2002 – Nissar Allana

Major traditions of theatre

• 2007 – Kolyur Ramachandra Rao (Yakshagana)
• 2008 – Bansi Lal Khiladi, Khayal (Rajasthan)

Other Traditional / Folk/ Tribal/ Dance/ Music/ Theatre and Puppetry

Other Traditional / Folk / Tribal/ Music/ Dance and Theatre

• 1964 – Mani Madhava Chakyar (Kutiyattam), Kerala
• 1972 – Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair (Kathakali), Kerala
• 1991 – Puranchand Wadali & Pyarelal Wadali (Folk Music), Punjab
• 1994 – M. Boyer (Tiatr), Goa
• 1995 – Teejan Bai (Pandavani), Madhya Pradesh
• 2005 – Mathoor Govindan Kutty (Kathakali), Kerala
• 2008 – Mangi Bai Arya (Mand), Rajasthan
• 2008 – Lakha Khan Mangniyar, (Folk Music), Rajasthan
• 2008 – Bansi Lal Khilari (Khayal), Rajasthan
• 2010 – Harbhajan Singh Namdhari (Gurbani Kirtan), Punjab
• 2010 – Nazeer Ahmed Khan Warsi and Naseer Ahmed Khan Warsi (Qawwali), Andhra Pradesh
• 2010 – Dwijen Mukherjee (Rabindra Sangeet), West Bengal
• 2010 – Chandabai Tiwadi (Bharud), Maharashtra
• 2010 – T. Somasundaram (Folk dance), Tamil Nadu
• 2010 – Krishna Kumari (Folk music: Bhakha), Jammu and Kashmir
• 2010 – Chand Jagdish Tiwadi (Folk theatre: Bharud), Maharashtra

Puppetry /Mime/ Allied arts of traditional forms

• 1978 – Kathinanada Das (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa
• 1979 – U. Kogga Devanna Kamath (Gombeatta puppetry), Karnataka
• 1980 – K.L. Krishnan Kutty Pulavar (Tholpava Koothu), Kerala
• 1981 – M.R. Ranganatha Rao, Karnataka
• 1983 – Meher Rustom Contractor, Gujarat
• 1987 – Suresh Dutta, West Bengal
• 1992 – Dadi Dorab Pudumjee, Delhi
• 1995 – T. Hombiah, Karnataka
• 1998 – Kolhacharan Sahu (Ravanchhaya puppetry), Orissa
• 1999 – B.H. Puttaswamachar, Karanataka
• 2001 – Hiren Bhattacharya, West Bengal
• 2003 – Puran Bhatt, Rajasthan
• 2010 – K. Chinna Anjannamma (Shadow puppetry: Tolu Bommalata), Andhra Pradesh
• 2010 – K.V. Ramakrishnan and K.C. Ramakrishnan (Glove puppetry: Pava Kathakali), Kerala

Performing arts in the media

• 1988 − Salil Chowdhury (Music)
• 1991 − Sudhir Phadke (Music)
• 1992 − Naushad Ali (Music)
• 1992 − K. J. Yesudas (Music)
• 2001 − Prem Matiyani (Theatre)

Overall contribution/scholarship

• 1994 – Kanak Rele (Dance)
• 1994 – K.V. Subbanna (Theatre)
• 1995 – Sunil Kothari (Dance)
• 1996 – Ram Gopal Bajaj (Theatre)
• 1999–2000 – B. V. K. Sastry (Performing Arts)
• 1999–2000 – Nemichandra Jain (Performing Arts)
• 1999–2000 – Shanta Serbejeet Singh (Performing Arts)
• 2002 – Romesh Chander (Theatre)
• 2003 – P. V. Subramanium 'Subbudu' (Performing Arts)
• 2004 – S. K. Saxena (Performing Arts)
• 2005 – Pratibha Agrawal (Theatre)
• 2006 – Rekha Jain (Performing Arts)
• 2007 – Mukund Lath (Performing Arts)
• 2008 – R. Satyanarayana (Performing Arts)
• 2009 – Leela Venkataraman (Performing Arts)
• 2010 – Ashok D. Ranade (Scholarship Performing Arts: Music)
• 2010 – Jaidev Taneja (Contribution Performing Arts: Theatre)

Films

• Acting
  • Ashok Kumar Ganguli, 1959
  • Chhabi Biswas 1960
  • Durga Khote 1958
  • Lalita Pawar 1961

• Direction
  • Debaki Bose 1957
  • Satyajit Ray 1959

• Lyric Composer
  • Ram Chandra Dwivedi 'Pradeep', 1961

• Music Direction
  • Sachin Dev Burman 1958

• Screenplay
  • Gajanan D. Madgulkar (Ga Di Ma), 1957
  • Mukhram Sharma, 1961

External links

• "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees". Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website. http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm.