NEW DELHI: Music maestro Vanraj Bhatia, best known for composing music for most of Shyam Benegal's films will be honoured with Tagore Akademi Ratna award by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He has earlier been the recipient of National Film award and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.

Twenty nine eminent personalities and scholars will be conferred with Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Fellowships and thirty four art practitioners and gurus in the field of music dance and drama will receive the Sangeet Natak Akademi Tagore Award.

West Bengal governor M K Narayanan will honour the recipients at a special ceremony to be hosted on 25 April in Kolkata.

Of the 100 honours, 50 are Fellows with purse money of Rs. 300,000, a Tamrapatra and an Angavastram and the remaining 50 are awards with purse money of Rs. 100,000, a Tamrapatra and an Angavastram.
    
Other noted personalities from the world of cinema who are being honoured with the Akademi Ratna include filmmaker Buddhadeb Das Gupta, danseuse and former actress Ms Vyjayanthimala Bali and actor MK Saroja. In addition, Ad Guru Alyque Padamsee, theatre personality Satya Dev Dubey, musicians Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Sabri Khan, MS Gopalakrishnan, dance exponent Mayadhar Raut, and Amala Shankar also figure in the list of Akademi Ratna.

Those getting the Tagore Akademi Puraskar include 13 in the field of music, eleven in dance, eight in theatre of which one is joint to Gopala Sharman and Jalabala Vaidya, and thirteen for traditional/folk/tribal/dance/music/theatre and puppetry.
 
In addition, five persons have been awarded for overall contribution/scholarship in performing arts:
M L Varadpande, B M Sundaram, Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere, Raja Mrigendra Singh, and Nilamadhab Panigrahi.
 
The full list of awardees is:
 
TAGORE AKADEMI RATNA
 
1. SATGURU JAGJIT SINGH NAMDHARI
 
2. B. RAJANIKANTA RAO
 
3. P V KRISHNAMOORTHY
 
4. LAXMI NARAYAN GARG
 
5. B N GOSWAMY
 
6. BIRENDRANATH DATTA
 
7. M NAGABHUSHANA SARMA
 
8. PRABHA ATRE
 
9. LAXMAN KRISHNARAO PANDIT
 
10. ZIA FARIDUDDIN DAGAR
 
11. GHULAM MUSTAFA WARIS KHAN
 
12. ABDUL HALIM JAFFER KHAN
 
13. RAM NARAYAN
 
14. SABRI KHAN
 
15. BUDDHADEV DAS GUPTA
 
16. SRIPADA PINAKAPANI
 
17. R.K. SRIKANTAN
 
18. NEDUNURI KRISHNA MURTHY
 
19. M.S. GOPALAKRISHNAN
 
20. NATESAN RAMANI
 
21. VELLORE G. RAMABHADRAN
 
22. GURUVAYUR DORAI
 
23. VANRAJ BHATIA
 
24. VYJAYANTIMALA BALI
 
25. KALANIDHI NARAYANAN
 
26. M K SAROJA
 
27. KUMUDINI LAKHIA
 
28. MANKOMPU SIVASANKARA PILLAI
 
29. MAYADHAR RAUT
 
30. PASUMARTHY VENUGOPALA KRISHNA SARMA
 
31. MAYA RAO
 
32. AMALA SHANKAR
 
33. P K NARAYANAN NAMBIAR
 
34. SATYA DEV DUBEY
 
 
35. VIJAYA FAROKH MEHTA
 
36. RAJINDER NATH
 
37. RUDRA PRASAD SENGUPTA
 
38. ALYQUE PADAMSEE
 
39. SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE
 
40. V. RAMAMURTHY
 
41. MOHIT CHATTOPADHYAYA
 
42. R. NAGARATHNAMMA
 
43. GURCHARAN SINGH RAGI
 
44. YAMUNABAI WAIKAR
 
45. T.R. KAMALA MURTHY
 
46. LALIT CHANDRA OJHA
 
47. SONAM TSHERING LEPCHA
 
48. ARGHYA SEN
 
49. KARTAR SINGH
 
50. G GOURAKISHOR SHARMA
 
 
 
TAGORE AKADEMI PURASKAR
 
MUSIC
 
1. SHANKAR LAL MISHRA - HINDUSTANI VOCAL
 
2. SUNANDA PATNAIK - HINDUSTANI VOCAL
 
3. GANESH PRASAD SHARMA - HINDUSTANI VOCAL
 
4. AMIYA RANJAN BANERJEE - HINDUSTANI VOCAL
 
5. SHRIKRISHNA S HALDANKAR - HINDUSTANI VOCAL
 
6. FAIYAZ KHAN - HINDUSTANI INSTRUMENTAL (TABLA)
 
7. TANJAVUR SANKARA IYER - CARNATIC VOCAL
 
8. KUMARAPILLAI VELUKUTTY NAIR - CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL(MRIDANGA)
 
9. S.R.G. RAJANNA - CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL(NAGASWARAM)
 
10. K. CHELLAIAH - CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL (THAVIL)
 
11. MAYAVARAM SARASWATHI - CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL (FLUTE)
 
12. R VISWESWARAN - CARNATIC INSTRUMENTAL (VEENA)
 
13. KARAM CHAOBA SINGH - OTHER MAJOR TRADITIONS OF MUSIC-
 
SANKIRTAN (ARIBA PALA)
 
DANCE
 
1. S. SWAMINATHAN - BHARATANATYAM
 
2. N.S. JAYALAKSHMI - BHARATANATYAM
 
3. RAJEE NARAYAN - BHARATANATYAM
 
4. CHEMANC.HERI KUNHIRAMAN NAIR - KATHAKALI
 
5. NATTUVAN PARAMASIVA MENON - KATHAKALI
 
6. DEVJANI CHALIHA - MANIPURI
 
7. BHAGAVATHULA YAGNA NARAYANA SARMA- KUCHIPUDI
 
8. RITHA DEVI MUKHOPADHYAYA - ODISSI
 
9. HARICHARAN SAIKIA - SATTRIYA
 
10. PATRAAYANI SANGEETHA RAO - MUSIC FOR DANCE
 
11. BHAGAVATULA SEETARAMA SARMA - MUSIC FOR DANCE
 
THEATRE
 
1. BIJOY KUMAR MISHRA - PLAYWRITING
 
2. K.M. RAGHAVAN NAMBIAR - PLAYWRITING
 
3. PRASAD SAWKAR - ACTING
 
4. CHATLA SREERAMULU - ACTING
 
5. SUSHMA SETH - ACTING
 
6. JAYMALA JAYRAM SHILEDAR - ACTING
 
7. MADHUKAR TORADMAL - DIRECTION
 
8. JALABALA VAIDYA & GOPAL SHARMAN - DIRECTION
 
(JOINT AWARD)
 
TRADITIONAL / FOLK / TRIBAL / DANCE / MUSIC / THEATRE AND PUPPETRY
 
1. ZAHOOR MIR - FOLK THEATRE, HARYANA
 
2. ABUNGBAM KABUI - TRIBAL DANCE, MANIPUR
 
3. GAMBHARI DEVI - FOLK MUSIC, HIMACHAL PRADESH
 
4. ALI MOHAMAD BHAGAT - BHAND PATHER, JAMMU &KASHMIR
 
5. GOPIRAM BORGAYAN - TRADITIONAL MUSIC, ASSAM
 
6. SUMITRA SEN - RABINDRA SANGEET, WEST BENGAL
 
7. BISHWA BANDHU - FOLK DANCE, BIHAR
 
8. HIRA LAL YADAV - BIRHA FOLK MUSIC, UTTAR PRADESH
 
9. RAMSAHAYA PANDEY - FOLK DANCE, MADHYA PRADESH
 
10. SATEMMEREN LONGKUMER - FOLK SONG, NAGALAND
 
11. RADHA KRISHNA KADAM - FOLK THEATRE, MAHARASTRA
 
12. ANASUYA DEVI - FOLK MUSIC, ANDHRA PRADESH
 
13. MAHIPATRAY KAVI - CONTEMPORARY PUPPETRY, GUJARAT
 
OVERALL CONTRIBUTION / SCHOLARSHIP IN PERFORMING ARTS
 
1. M L VARADPANDE
 
2. B M SUNDARAM
 
3. RAMCHANDRA CHINTAMAN DHERE
 
4. RAJA MRIGENDRA SINGH
 
5. NILAMADHAB PANIGRAHI