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The Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2003 will be presented by the Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at a special ceremony on 26th October, 2004 at 7.00 p.m. at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. The Akademi Awards are recognized as the highest national honour conferred on practicing artistes, gurus and scholars and have come to stay as the most coveted honour to which the artistes aspire to. Past recipients of Akademi Awards includes eminent personalities such as Alauddin Khan, Hafiz Ali Khan, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyenga, Omkar Nath Thakur, T. Balasaraswati, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Kelucharan Mohapatra, Sachin Deb Burman, Satyajit Ray, Sombhu Mitra, P. L. Deshpande, C. C. Mehta, Mohan Rakesh, B. V. Karanth, to name a few. The Awards are decided by Akademi’s General Council, the apex body consisting of specialists in different fields of performing arts and representatives from different States and Union territories of the country. The Akademi Awards carry purse money of Rs. 50,000/- in cash, a Tamrapatra and a shawl.
The Sangeet Natak Akademi was established by the Government on 31st May 1952 as the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. It was created as the apex body in the country for the task of preservation and promotion of the performing arts of India. One of the important activities of the Akademi has been to give recognition and honours to artistes for setting standards in performing arts and restoring the art and artistes to their rightful place in independent India.
The institution of Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards is now fifty-two years old and the large body of practitioners, gurus and scholars in the performing arts honoured by the Akademi represents the nation’s highest achievement in music, dance and drama.
The names of those being honoured with Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2003 are listed in the enclosed sheet.
SANGEET NATAK AKADEMI AWARDS 2003
NAMES OF AWARDEES
Music
Ghulam Mustafa Waris Khan
Hindustani Music – Vocal
Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi
Hindustani Music – Vocal
Arvind Natverlal Parikh
Hindustani Music – Instrumental (Sitar)
Bhawani Shankar Kathak
Hindustani Music – Instrumental (Pakhawaj)
Trichur Vaidyanatha Ramachandran
Carnatic Music - Vocal
Mandayam Annadorai Narasimhachar
Carnatic Music – Vocal
Avasarala Kanyakumari
Carnatic Music – Instrumental (Violin)
Kadri Gopalnath
Carnatic Music – Instrumental (Saxophone)
Dance
Cherutara K. Balagopalan
Bharatanatyam
Sunayana Hazarilal Agarwal
Kathak
Urmila Nagar
Kathak
Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan
Kathakali
Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi
Manipuri
Kalavati Devi
Manipuri
K. Uma Rama Rao
Kuchipudi
Hare Krishna Behera
Odissi
Theatre
Arun Sarma
Playwriting – Assamese
Ratnakar Ramkrishna Matkari
Playwriting – Marathi
Devendra Raj Ankur
Direction
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
Direction
Saoli Mitra
Acting – Bengali
C. R. Simha
Acting – Kannada
Sreenivas G. Kappanna
Allied Theatre Arts – Lighting & Stage Design
Anant Gopal Shinde
Allied Theatre Arts – Make Up
Traditional/Folk/Tribal Dance, Music, Theatre & Puppetry
Laisram Birendrakumar Singh
Folk & Tribal Music – Manipur
Prabhat Sarma
Traditional & Folk Music - Assam
Leela Omchery
Traditional & Folk Music – Kerala
Chukka Satthiah
Oggu Katha – Andhra Pradesh
Bhalchandra Vyankatesh Pendharkar
Natya Sangeet – Maharashtra
Banamali Maharana
Odissi Music – Orissa
Puran Bhaat
Puppetry – Rajasthan
Kosha Kanta Deva Goswami
Mask Making (Bhaona) - Assam
Scholarship/Overall Contribution in Performing Arts
Shri P. V. Subramaniam ‘Subbudu’
Scholarship/Overall Contribution in Performing Arts
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