The authorities on Thursday announced the winners of Padma Awards 2024. These awards are given inside the fields of arts, social work, public affairs, technological know-how and engineering, alternate and enterprise, remedy, literature and training, sports, civil offerings, and so on. The Padma Awards are conferred in 3 categories inclusive of Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri. Let's test a few key figures from the sphere of amusement, art and way of life who've been honoured by way of the government.
Padma Vibhushan 2024 winners
Vyjayantimala Bali - Tamil Nadu

Konidela Chiranjeevi - Andhra Pradesh
Padma Subrahmanyam - Tamil Nadu

Padma Bhushan 2024 winners
Dattatray Ambadas Mayaloo alias Rajdutt - Maharashtra
Mithun Chakraborty - West Bengal
Usha Uthup - West Bengal
Vijaykanth - Tamil Nadu
Pyarelal Sharma - Maharashtra

Folk artists honoured with Padma Shri
Ratan Kahar

Famous Bhadu folk singer Ratan Kahar of Birbhum has dedicated more than 60 years to people song. He is known for his captivating roles in Jatra folks theatre. He makes a speciality of Bhadu festival songs and genres like Tusu, Jhumur, and Alqaab. His composition 'Boro Loker Biti Lo' is popular. Despite financial constraints and coming from a laborer circle of relatives, he commenced singing at the age of sixteen and left an indelible mark.

Om Prakash Sharma

Omprakash Sharma promoted 'Maach', the 200-yr-antique traditional dance drama of the Malwa place for more than seven many years. He wrote scripts for Mach theater productions and transformed Sanskrit performs in the Mach style. He skilled college students at NSD Delhi and Bharat Bhawan Bhopal while serving as a trainer. Coming from a humble heritage, Omprakash discovered the artwork from his father beneath Ustad Kaluram Mach Akhara

Narayanan E P

Narayanan E P has devoted six decades to selling the conventional art of Theyyam. Experienced Theyyam folks dancer from Kannur - She has mastered the art of shifting from dance to the whole Theyyam surroundings which include costume designing and face painting strategies. At the age of five, he started his six-decade-long profession. He done the art in three hundred performances in 20 styles of Theyyam. Theyyam is an historical folk ritual combining theatre, track, mime, and dance, generally executed in front of the village temple with musical contraptions like chenda, flathalam, and kurumkujal. He started as a driver, now operating dedicatedly for the preservation of this art.

Bhagwat Padhan

Bhagwat Padhan is the exponent of the Sabda Nritya people dance of Bargarh. He committed extra than five a long time of his existence to retaining and popularizing the artwork shape taken into consideration to be the dance of Mahadev. His lifelong efforts have contributed appreciably to the maintenance of this dance shape, together with education greater than 600 dancers. Worked as a decrease number one college trainer in the course of the Nineteen Sixties. During this time he faced monetary challenges however in no way gave up his willpower to his artwork.

Badarappan M

Badarappan M is an exponent of Valli Oyil Kummi folk dance from Coimbatore. It is a hybrid form of track and dance overall performance, depicting the tales of the gods 'Murugan' and 'Valli'. Despite being a predominantly male-ruled art, Badarappan believed in women empowerment and for this reason broke this culture and skilled women artists.

Gaddam Sammayya

Gaddam Sammayya has highlighted social troubles via Chindu Yakshaganam performances for over 5 a long time. He has completed extra than 19,000 shows up to now. Chindu Yaksha Arthula Sangham and Gaddam Sammaiya Youth Art Skethram were hooked up to sell this art. Coming from a humble history, Sammayya commenced paintings as an agricultural laborer and discovered the art from his parents.