2012 Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

At the General Council meeting on Dec 21,2012 Friday, the Akademi selected -

1)2012 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.

• The legendary South Indian Composer Ilayaraja for Creative and Experimental Music
• Rajashekhar Mansur and Ajay Pohankar for Hindustani Vocal Music
• Sabir Khan (Tabla) and Bahauddin Dagar (Rudra Veena) for Hindustani Instrumental Music
• O.S. Thyagarajan for Carnatic Vocal Music
•  Mysore M Nagaraja (Violin)and K V Prasad (Mridangam) for Carnatic Instrumental Music and
•  Bhai Balbir Singh Ragi (Gurbani) for Other Major Traditions of Music

2)N Rajam, violinist who performs Hindustani classical music, T.H. Vinayakram and Ratan Thiyam have been selected for the prestigious the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships

3) In the field of Dance, the Akademi selected -

• Priyadarsini Govind (Bharatanatyam)
• Vijay Shankar (Kathak)
• Vazhengada Vijayan (Kathakali)
•  Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry (Kuchipudi)
•  Sharmila Biswas (Odissi)
• Jai Narayan Samal (Chhau)

4)In the field of Theatre,the Akademi selected -

• Arjun Deo Charan for Playwriting
• Tripurari Sharma and Waman Kendre for Direction
•  Parvesh Sethi, Nirmal Rishi and Purisai Kannappa Sambandan for Acting
• Murari Roychoudhury for Theatre Music and 
• Ghulam Rasool Bhagat for Major Traditions of Theatre (Bhand Pather)

Painkulam Damodara Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
Jwala Prasad (Music for Dance) and
Aditi Mangaldas (Creative & Experimental Dance)