Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 24: Mushtaq Kak of Jammu Kashmir among 43 artists from all over India has been selected for the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2015 while C V Chandrasekhar has been selected as Akademi Ratna (Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow).
Mushtaq Kak has been selected for the Akademi Award for his contribution to Direction in the field of Theatre.
These honours not only symbolize the highest standard of excellence and achievements, but also recognize sustained individual work and contribution. The honour of Akademi Fellow carries a purse money of Rs 3 lakh while Akademi Award carries Rs one lakh besides a Tamrapatra and Angavastram.
The Akademi Fellowships and Awards will be conferred by the President of India.
The Fellowship of the Akademi is the most prestigious and rare honour, which is restricted to 40 numbers at a given time. Presently there are only 40 Fellows of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
For Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards, the artists were selected from the fields of Music, Dance, Theatre, Traditional/ Folk/ Tribal Music/ Dance/ Theatre and Puppetry and Overall contribution/scholarship in Performing Arts.
In the field of Music, eleven eminent artists, namely Krishna Bisht, Mashkoor Ali Khan for Hindustani Vocal Music, Kartik Kumar for Hindustani Instrumental Music-Sitar, Brij Narayan for Hindustani Instrumental Music-Sarod, R N Thyagarajan and R N Tharanathan (joint award), Suguna Varadhachari for Carnatic Vocal Music, Lalgudi G J R Krishnan for Carnatic Instrumental Music-Violin, Mambalam M K S Siva for Carnatic Instrumental Music-Nagaswaram, Bhupinder Singh, Hridyanath Mangeshkar and Prafulla Kar for Other Major Traditions of Music-Sugam Sangeet, have been selected for the Akademi Awards 2015.
In the field of Dance, nine eminent artists have been selected for the Akademi Awards 2015. They include Ranganayaki Jayaraman for Bharatnatyam, K Kunhiraman Nair for Kathakali, G Padmaja Reddy for Kuchipudi Dance, Aloka Kanungo for Odissi Dance, Sharodi Saikia for Sattriya Dance, Mandakini Trivedi for Mohiniattam, Sadashiva Pradhan for Chhau Dance, W Lokendrajit Singh for Contemporary/Experimental Dance and Rajkumar Bharathi for Music for Dance.
In the field of Theatre, nine eminent persons have been selected for Akademi Awards 2015. They included Nand Kishore Acharya, Shafaat Khan for Playwriting, Parvez Akhtar, Mushtaq Kak for Direction, Manoj N Joshi, Himani Shivpuri for Acting, -Pradeep Mulye for Allied Theatre Arts-Scenic Design, Sarojini Nangiar for Other Major Traditions of Theatre-Kutiyattam and Rani Balbir Kaur for Overall Contribution in Theatre.
In the field of Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre and Puppetry, ten artistes have been selected for Akademi Awards 2015. They are Khuman Lal Saav (Folk Music of Chhattisgarh), Ramchandra Singh (Folk Theatre of Bihar), Khem Raj (Folk Music of Jammu and Kashmir), S R D Prasad (Martial Art of Kerala), Chhaya and Maya Khutegaonkar (joint award for Folk Dance of Maharashtra-Lavani), Gangmei Aluna Kabuini (Traditional Dance and Music of Manipur), Paramjit Singh Sidhu (Folk Music of Punjab), Sayeed Sabri Jaipuri (Qawwali, Rajasthan), K K Ramachandra Pulavar and T N Sankaranathan for Puppetry.
Shanta Gokhale and Chaman La! Ahuja have been selected for the Akademi Awards 2015 in the field of Overall Contribution/ Scholarship to Performing Arts.
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