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searchaux" style="display:none">Indian filmmaker, theatre personality (1929–2002)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the 2012 Indian film on him, see <a href="/wiki/BV_Karanth:Baba" title="BV Karanth:Baba">BV Karanth:Baba</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Karanth_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Karanth (disambiguation)">Karanth (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">B. V. Karanth</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Karanth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Karanth.jpg/220px-Karanth.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Karanth.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="350" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1929-09-19</span>)</span>19 September 1929<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Dakshina_Kannada_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakshina Kannada district">Manchi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mysore" title="Kingdom of Mysore">Kingdom of Mysore</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1 September 2002<span style="display:none">(2002-09-01)</span> (aged 72)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Bangalore" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangalore">Bangalore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Indian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Composer, film director, screenwriter, actor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Prema_Karanth" title="Prema Karanth">Prema Rao</a> (1958−2002; his death)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth</b> (19 September 1929 – 1 September 2002) widely known as <b>B. V. Karanth</b> was an Indian film director, playwright, actor, screenwriter, composer, and dramatist known for his works in the Kannada theatre, <a href="/wiki/Kannada_cinema" title="Kannada cinema">Kannada cinema</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hindi_cinema" title="Hindi cinema">Hindi cinema</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the pioneers of the <a href="/wiki/Parallel_Cinema" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallel Cinema">Parallel Cinema</a>, Karanth was an alumnus of the <a href="/wiki/National_School_of_Drama" title="National School of Drama">National School of Drama</a> (1962) and later, its director.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received the <a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Award" title="Sangeet Natak Akademi Award">Sangeet Natak Akademi Award</a> (1976), six <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Awards" title="National Film Awards">National Film Awards</a>, and the civilian honor <a href="/wiki/Padma_Shri" title="Padma Shri">Padma Shri</a> for his contributions towards the field of art.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born into a Kannada speaking family of Manchi, a village near Babukodi in <a href="/wiki/Bantwal_taluk" title="Bantwal taluk">Bantwal taluk</a> of Dakshina Kannada district in 1929, Karanth's passion for theatre started at an early age.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first tryst with theatre was when he was in standard III – he acted in <i>Nanna Gopala</i>, a play directed by P.K. Narayana. <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-auto2_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then ran away from home and joined the legendary Gubbi Veeranna drama company where he worked alongside <a href="/wiki/Dr._Rajkumar" title="Dr. Rajkumar">Rajkumar</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who also was starting out then as a novice. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gubbi_Veeranna" title="Gubbi Veeranna">Gubbi Veeranna</a> sent Karanth to <a href="/wiki/Banaras" class="mw-redirect" title="Banaras">Banaras</a> to gain a Master of Arts degree, where he also underwent training in <a href="/wiki/Hindustani_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindustani music">Hindustani music</a> under Guru Omkarnath Thakur.<sup id="cite_ref-auto3_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thereafter, along with his wife, <a href="/wiki/Prema_Karanth" title="Prema Karanth">Prema Karanth</a>, Karanth set up "Benaka", one of Bangalore's oldest theatre groups. It is an acronym for Bengalooru Nagara Kalavidaru. Then, Prema took up a teaching job in <a href="/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a> and supported Karanth through the <a href="/wiki/National_School_of_Drama" title="National School of Drama">National School of Drama</a>. He was to return the compliment after he graduated from the <a href="/wiki/NSD" title="NSD">NSD</a>, and eventually became its director.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later graduated from the <a href="/wiki/National_School_of_Drama" title="National School of Drama">National School of Drama</a> (NSD), New Delhi, in 1962, then headed by <a href="/wiki/Ebrahim_Alkazi" title="Ebrahim Alkazi">Ebrahim Alkazi</a>. Between 1969 and 1972, he worked as a drama instructor at the <a href="/wiki/Sardar_Patel_Vidyalaya" title="Sardar Patel Vidyalaya">Sardar Patel Vidyalaya</a>, New Delhi after which the couple returned to Bangalore. Here Karanth dabbled in some cinema as well as music and was involved with the likes of <a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a> and <a href="/wiki/U.R._Ananthamurthy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.R. Ananthamurthy">U.R. Ananthamurthy</a> in these ventures. <sup id="cite_ref-auto2_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then returned to the NSD, this time as its director in 1977. As the director of NSD, Karanth took theatre to far-flung corners of India. He conducted several workshops in places far away as <a href="/wiki/Madurai" title="Madurai">Madurai</a> in Tamil Nadu. After his stint as the director of NSD, the Madhya Pradesh government invited him to head the Rangamandal repertory under the aegis of the Bharat Bhavan. After rendering yeoman service to the theatre scene in <a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> between 1981 and '86, Karanth returned to Karnataka.<sup id="cite_ref-auto4_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1989, the Karnataka government invited him to set up a repertory in Mysore, which he named <a href="/wiki/Rangayana" title="Rangayana">Rangayana</a> and headed until 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Prostate_cancer" title="Prostate cancer">prostate cancer</a> in the late 1990s and died at 8 p.m. (<a href="/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time" title="Indian Standard Time">IST</a>) on 1 September 2002 in a private hospital in Bangalore.<sup id="cite_ref-auto4_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto4-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translator">Translator</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Translator"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His translations from Sanskrit into Hindi include Swapna Vasavadatta, Uttararama Charita and Mrichchakatika . He has also translated a large number of plays from Kannada to Hindi and vice versa. His translation of Girish Karnad's play Tughlaq into Hindi/Urdu has attained cult status. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Institutions">Institutions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Institutions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1962: graduated from NSD, winning an award as the best all – round student</li> <li>1977–1981: Director of NSD</li> <li>1981–1988: Founding director of Rangamandal at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal</li> <li>1989–1995: Founding director of Rangayana, Mysore</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Karanth entered the Kannada theatre scene in the late 1960s and early '70s. His entry brought about a sea change in Kannada theatre which then was steeped in the old, formal proscenium style. His plays like Jokumara Swamy, Sankranti, Huchu Kudure and Oedipus to name a few, which were directed in the early 1970s, were hailed as trendsetters. These plays touched upon all aspects of theatre like language, music, song, stylisation<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The innovative use of music was one Karanth's biggest contributions to theatre.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of Karanth's strengths was his ability to draw on classical, traditional and folk forms and fuse them in his compositions. His plays were less famous for design as for their musical content, which became part of the prose of theatre." </p><p>In 2010, at the 12th <a href="/wiki/Bharat_Rang_Mahotsav" title="Bharat Rang Mahotsav">Bharat Rang Mahotsav</a>, the annual theatre festival of <a href="/wiki/National_School_of_Drama" title="National School of Drama">National School of Drama</a>, Delhi, a tribute exhibition dedicated to life, works and theatre of B.V. Karanth and <a href="/wiki/Habib_Tanvir" title="Habib Tanvir">Habib Tanvir</a> was displayed.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jnanpith awardee <a href="/wiki/Nirmal_Verma" title="Nirmal Verma">Nirmal Verma</a> had once described Karanth as "the authentic desi genius of Indian theatre".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plays_of_B._V._Karanth">Plays of B. V. Karanth</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Plays of B. V. Karanth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Karanth directed over a hundred plays, more than half of which were in Kannada with Hindi close behind. He also directed plays in English, <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malayalam" title="Malayalam">Malayalam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_language" title="Punjabi language">Punjabi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gujarati_language" title="Gujarati language">Gujarati</a>. <i>Hayavadana</i> (by Girish Karnad), <i>Kattale Belaku</i>, <i>Huchu Kudure</i>, <i>Evam Indrajit</i>, <i>Oedipus</i>, <i>Sankranti</i>, <i>Jokumara Swami</i>, <i>Sattavara Neralu</i>, <i>Huttava Badidare</i> and <i>Gokula Nirgamana</i> are some of his most popular plays in Kannada. Of the forty or so plays he directed in Hindi, <a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a> (using the traditional <a href="/wiki/Yakshagana" title="Yakshagana">Yakshagana</a> dance drama form), King Lear, Chandrahasa, Hayavadana, Ghasiram Kotwal, Mrichha Katika, Mudra Rakshasa, and Malavikagni Mitra are some of the more popular ones. Karanth also revelled in directing children and directed several children plays like <i>Panjara Shale</i>, <i>Neeli Kudure</i>, <i>Heddayana</i>, <i>Alilu Ramayana</i> and <i>The Grateful Man</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Benaka">Benaka</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Benaka"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1974, Karanth started <i>BeNaKa</i> a repertory in Bangalore. Benaka was an acronym for <i>Bengalooru Nagara Kalavidaru</i>. Benaka stages several hugely popular plays like <i>Hayavadana</i> all across Karnataka and even overseas. At Benaka, Karanth also took a special interest in children's theatre and directed several plays with children. This group has been taken care of by Prema Karanth, Karanth's late wife and a noted theatre personality in her own right. She died on 29-10-07. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contribution_to_Madhya_Pradesh_theatre">Contribution to Madhya Pradesh theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Contribution to Madhya Pradesh theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Karanth was largely responsible for starting the new theatre movement in <a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a>. As director of the NSD, at the invitation of the Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, he organized a training-cum-production camp in 1973. In the 1980s, he returned to set up the Rangmandal repertory in Bharat Bhavan. This was to be the first-ever repertory in the state and he became the main creative spirit behind the now-legendary Bharat Bhavan. </p><p>Rangmandal, for the first time, folk professionals were used for training contemporary actors, and the repertory also included folk performers among its members. Apart from Hindi, plays were also produced in dialects such as Bundelkhandi, Malavi and Chhattisgarhi which created huge ticket-buying audiences for the Rangmandira. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contribution_to_Andhra_Pradesh_theatre">Contribution to Andhra Pradesh theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Contribution to Andhra Pradesh theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the integration of Alarippu and National school of Drama-New Delhi, Karanth had contributed three great plays in Telugu. Collaborated with Surabhi theatre of Andhra Pradesh, Karanth conducted three workshops respectively 'Bhishma' in 1996, 'Chandipriya' in 1997 and 'Basthidevatha yadamma'. It is his dedication that Karanth spent his time during the workshops in corner villages of Andhra Pradesh to brought up the dramas. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmmaking">Filmmaking</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Filmmaking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Karanth directed four feature films and four documentaries, apart from scoring the music for 26 films.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He co-directed films like <a href="/wiki/Vamsha_Vriksha" title="Vamsha Vriksha">Vamsha Vriksha</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tabbaliyu_Neenade_Magane" title="Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane">Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane</a> with <a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Civilian honors</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Padmashri" class="mw-redirect" title="Padmashri">Padmashri</a> – Government of India, (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalidas_Samman" title="Kalidas Samman">Kalidas Samman</a> – Government of <a href="/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a>, (1976)</li> <li>Gubbi Veeranna Award – Government of <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a>, (1976)</li></ul> <dl><dt>National Honors</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Award" title="Sangeet Natak Akademi Award">Sangeet Natak Akademi Award</a> (1976)</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/National_Film_Awards" title="National Film Awards">National Film Awards</a></dt></dl> <ul><li>1971 – <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Direction" title="National Film Award for Best Direction">National Film Award for Best Direction</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vamsha_Vriksha" title="Vamsha Vriksha">Vamsha Vriksha</a></li> <li>1971 – <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Feature_Film_in_Kannada" class="mw-redirect" title="National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada">National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vamsha_Vriksha" title="Vamsha Vriksha">Vamsha Vriksha</a></li> <li>1975 – <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Feature_Film" title="National Film Award for Best Feature Film">National Film Award for Best Feature Film</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chomana_Dudi" title="Chomana Dudi">Chomana Dudi</a></li> <li>1976 – <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Music_Direction" title="National Film Award for Best Music Direction">National Film Award for Best Music Direction</a>: Rishya Shrunga</li> <li>1977 – National Film Award for Best Music Direction: <a href="/wiki/Ghatashraddha" title="Ghatashraddha">Ghatashraddha</a></li> <li>1977 – National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada– <a href="/wiki/Tabbaliyu_Neenade_Magane" title="Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane">Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Karnataka_State_Film_Awards" title="Karnataka State Film Awards">Karnataka State Film Awards</a></dt></dl> <ul><li>1971-72 – First Best Film – Vamsha Vruksha</li> <li>1971-72 – Best Dialogue Writer – Vamsha Vruksha</li> <li>1975-76 – First Best Film – Chomana Dudi</li> <li>1975-76 – Best Music Director – Hamsageethe</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Awards_South" title="Filmfare Awards South">Filmfare Awards South</a></dt></dl> <ul><li>1972 – <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Director_%E2%80%93_Kannada" title="Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada">Best Director Kannada</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vamsha_Vriksha" title="Vamsha Vriksha">Vamsha Vriksha</a></li> <li>1975 – <a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Director_%E2%80%93_Kannada" title="Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada">Best Director Kannada</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chomana_Dudi" title="Chomana Dudi">Chomana Dudi</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Documentary_film_on_B._V._Karanth">Documentary film on B. V. Karanth</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Documentary film on B. V. Karanth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, <a href="/wiki/Films_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Films Division">Films Division</a> produced a 93-minute film on BV Karanth called <a href="/wiki/BV_Karanth:Baba" title="BV Karanth:Baba">BV Karanth:Baba</a>. The film bases itself on BV Karanth's autobiography in Kannada called <i>Illiralaare, Allige Hogalaare</i> (I can't stay here, I won't go there) compiled by well known <a href="/wiki/Kannada" title="Kannada">Kannada</a> writer <a href="/wiki/Vaidehi_(Kannada_writer)" title="Vaidehi (Kannada writer)">Vaidehi</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8KCh9fBuzckC">Tughlaq (Hindi)</a>, by Girish Karnad. Tr. by B. V. Karanth. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 February</span> 2007</span>. <q>Recalling the sense of excitement and exhilaration she and a group of young friends felt when they first saw Jokkumbara Swamy, Sankranti, Huchu Kudurai and Oedipus, a set of plays he directed in the early 1970s, she said: "To Karanth theatre was celebration, infused with joie de vivre. You will never find a dull, prosaic Karanth play. His was the closest you could come to 'total' theatre, where language, music, song, stylization, often through folk forms, were all present."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+genius&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hinduonnet.com%2Ffline%2Ffl1920%2Fstories%2F20021011005912100.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AB.+V.+Karanth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"I would say this is an essential component of the Karanth legacy," said Lakshmi Chandrashekhar, leading stage artist and theatre critic.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article87544.ece">"Saluting stalwarts"</a>. <i>The Hindu</i>. 21 January 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Hindu&rft.atitle=Saluting+stalwarts&rft.date=2010-01-21&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbeta.thehindu.com%2Farts%2Ftheatre%2Farticle87544.ece&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AB.+V.+Karanth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKumar2017" class="citation news cs1">Kumar, Kuldeep (8 September 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/rooted-in-soil/article19637022.ece">"Rooted in soil"</a>. <i>The Hindu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Hindu&rft.atitle=Rooted+in+soil&rft.date=2017-09-08&rft.aulast=Kumar&rft.aufirst=Kuldeep&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fbooks%2Fbooks-authors%2Frooted-in-soil%2Farticle19637022.ece&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AB.+V.+Karanth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=B._V._Karanth&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438911/">B. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Debaki_Bose" title="Debaki Bose">Debaki Bose</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shambhu_Maharaj" title="Shambhu Maharaj">Shambhu Maharaj</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nargis" title="Nargis">Nargis</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devika_Rani" title="Devika Rani">Devika Rani</a> (1958)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K._K._Hebbar" title="K. K. Hebbar">K. K. Hebbar</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bismillah_Khan" title="Bismillah Khan">Bismillah Khan</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Krishna_Phadke" title="Raghunath Krishna Phadke">Raghunath Krishna Phadke</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Kumar" title="Ashok Kumar">Ashok Kumar</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehboob_Khan" title="Mehboob Khan">Mehboob Khan</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melville_de_Mellow" title="Melville de Mellow">Melville de Mellow</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinayak_Pandurang_Karmarkar" title="Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar">Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adi_Pherozeshah_Marzban" title="Adi Pherozeshah Marzban">Adi Pherozeshah Marzban</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._C._Sorcar" title="P. C. Sorcar">P. C. Sorcar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guru_Kunchu_Kurup" title="Guru Kunchu Kurup">Guru Kunchu Kurup</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Nagayya" title="V. Nagayya">V. Nagayya</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravishankar_Raval" title="Ravishankar Raval">Ravishankar Raval</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrinalini_Sarabhai" title="Mrinalini Sarabhai">Mrinalini Sarabhai</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivaji_Ganesan" title="Sivaji Ganesan">Sivaji Ganesan</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._F._Husain" title="M. F. Husain">M. F. Husain</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumitra_Charat_Ram" title="Sumitra Charat Ram">Sumitra Charat Ram</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Bhanumathi" title="P. Bhanumathi">P. Bhanumathi</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daji_Bhatawadekar" title="Daji Bhatawadekar">Daji Bhatawadekar</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasant_Desai" title="Vasant Desai">Vasant Desai</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siddheshwari_Devi" title="Siddheshwari Devi">Siddheshwari Devi</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi">Mohammed Rafi</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sashadhar_Mukherjee" title="Sashadhar Mukherjee">Sashadhar Mukherjee</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinjamuri_Venkata_Lakshmi_Narasimha_Rao" title="Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao">Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._R._Acharekar" title="M. R. Acharekar">M. R. Acharekar</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Begum_Akhtar" title="Begum Akhtar">Begum Akhtar</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharan_Rani_Backliwal" title="Sharan Rani Backliwal">Sharan Rani Backliwal</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikhil_Banerjee" title="Nikhil Banerjee">Nikhil Banerjee</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Dutt" title="Sunil Dutt">Sunil Dutt</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durga_Khote" title="Durga Khote">Durga Khote</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamini_Krishnamurthy" title="Yamini Krishnamurthy">Yamini Krishnamurthy</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar%E2%80%93Jaikishan" title="Shankar–Jaikishan">Shankar–Jaikishan</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayodhya_Prasad" title="Ayodhya Prasad">Ayodhya Prasad</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akkineni_Nageswara_Rao" title="Akkineni Nageswara Rao">Akkineni Nageswara Rao</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._T._Rama_Rao" title="N. T. Rama Rao">N. T. Rama Rao</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Lal_Samar" title="Devi Lal Samar">Devi Lal Samar</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyjayanthimala" title="Vyjayanthimala">Vyjayanthimala</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Ahmad_Abbas" title="Khwaja Ahmad Abbas">Khwaja Ahmad Abbas</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Abraham_Cheulkar" title="David Abraham Cheulkar">David Abraham Cheulkar</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Bendre" title="N. S. Bendre">N. S. Bendre</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._D._Burman" title="S. D. Burman">S. D. Burman</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Saroja_Devi" title="B. Saroja Devi">B. Saroja Devi</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indrani_Rahman" title="Indrani Rahman">Indrani Rahman</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balraj_Sahni" title="Balraj Sahni">Balraj Sahni</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._N._Swamy_(artist)" title="S. N. Swamy (artist)">S. N. Swamy (artist)</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sukumar_Bose" title="Sukumar Bose">Sukumar Bose</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prem_Dhawan" title="Prem Dhawan">Prem Dhawan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratna_Fabri" title="Ratna Fabri">Ratna Fabri</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemini_Ganesan" title="Gemini Ganesan">Gemini Ganesan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak" title="Ritwik Ghatak">Ritwik Ghatak</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damayanti_Joshi" title="Damayanti Joshi">Damayanti Joshi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Halim_Jaffer_Khan" title="Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan">Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Jamshed_Khandalavala" title="Karl Jamshed Khandalavala">Karl Jamshed Khandalavala</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhaviah_Krishnan" title="Madhaviah Krishnan">Madhaviah Krishnan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Kumar" title="Rajendra Kumar">Rajendra Kumar</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Mullick" title="Pankaj Mullick">Pankaj Mullick</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalamandalam_Krishnan_Nair" title="Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair">Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relangi_(actor)" title="Relangi (actor)">Relangi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gummadi_(actor)" title="Gummadi (actor)">Gummadi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Raghav_Rao" title="Vijay Raghav Rao">Vijay Raghav Rao</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Satyanarayana_Sarma" title="V. Satyanarayana Sarma">V. Satyanarayana Sarma</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maisnam_Amubi_Singh" title="Maisnam Amubi Singh">Maisnam Amubi Singh</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._B._Sundarambal" title="K. B. Sundarambal">K. B. Sundarambal</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avinash_Vyas" title="Avinash Vyas">Avinash Vyas</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Balamuralikrishna" title="M. Balamuralikrishna">M. Balamuralikrishna</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sankho_Chaudhuri" title="Sankho Chaudhuri">Sankho Chaudhuri</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manna_Dey" title="Manna Dey">Manna Dey</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tripti_Mitra" title="Tripti Mitra">Tripti Mitra</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vazhenkada_Kunchu_Nair" title="Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair">Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chenganoor_Raman_Pillai" title="Chenganoor Raman Pillai">Chenganoor Raman Pillai</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._N._Dandayudhapani_Pillai" title="K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai">K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanta_Rao" title="Shanta Rao">Shanta Rao</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_(composer)" title="Ravi (composer)">Ravi</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahir_Ludhianvi" title="Sahir Ludhianvi">Sahir Ludhianvi</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siyaram_Tiwari_(musician)" title="Siyaram Tiwari (musician)">Siyaram Tiwari (musician)</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiranjeet_Chakraborty" title="Chiranjeet Chakraborty">Chiranjeet Chakraborty</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girija_Devi" title="Girija Devi">Girija Devi</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasudeo_S._Gaitonde" title="Vasudeo S. Gaitonde">Vasudeo S. Gaitonde</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Janah" title="Sunil Janah">Sunil Janah</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalgudi_Jayaraman" title="Lalgudi Jayaraman">Lalgudi Jayaraman</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi" title="Bhimsen Joshi">Bhimsen Joshi</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Kapoor" title="Mahendra Kapoor">Mahendra Kapoor</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Kumar_(artist)" title="Ram Kumar (artist)">Ram Kumar (artist)</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee" title="Hrishikesh Mukherjee">Hrishikesh Mukherjee</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vazhuvoor_Ramaiah_Pillai" title="Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai">Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samta_Prasad" title="Samta Prasad">Samta Prasad</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._K._Radha" title="M. K. Radha">M. K. Radha</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghu_Rai" title="Raghu Rai">Raghu Rai</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishna_Reddy_(artist)" title="Krishna Reddy (artist)">Krishna Reddy</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waheeda_Rehman" title="Waheeda Rehman">Waheeda Rehman</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juthika_Roy" title="Juthika Roy">Juthika Roy</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suchitra_Sen" title="Suchitra Sen">Suchitra Sen</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gubbi_Veeranna" title="Gubbi Veeranna">Gubbi Veeranna</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitara_Devi" title="Sitara Devi">Sitara Devi</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._N._Krishnan" title="T. N. Krishnan">T. N. Krishnan</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Maharaj" title="Kishan Maharaj">Kishan Maharaj</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramanathapuram_C._S._Murugabhoopathy" title="Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy">Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thikkurissy_Sukumaran_Nair" title="Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair">Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uma_Sharma" title="Uma Sharma">Uma Sharma</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._G._Thakur_Singh" title="S. G. Thakur Singh">S. G. Thakur Singh</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaifi_Azmi" title="Kaifi Azmi">Kaifi Azmi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushkar_Bhan" title="Pushkar Bhan">Pushkar Bhan</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Mani Madhava Chakyar">Mani Madhava Chakyar</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bindhyabasini_Devi" title="Bindhyabasini Devi">Bindhyabasini Devi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naina_Devi_(singer)" title="Naina Devi (singer)">Naina Devi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shriram_Lagoo" title="Shriram Lagoo">Shriram Lagoo</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelucharan_Mohapatra" title="Kelucharan Mohapatra">Kelucharan Mohapatra</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nutan" title="Nutan">Nutan</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._D._Ramanathan" title="M. D. Ramanathan">M. D. Ramanathan</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Som_Nath_Sadhu" title="Som Nath Sadhu">Som Nath Sadhu</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emani_Sankara_Sastry" title="Emani Sankara Sastry">Emani Sankara Sastry</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kripal_Singh_Shekhawat" title="Kripal Singh Shekhawat">Kripal Singh Shekhawat</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manik_Varma" title="Manik Varma">Manik Varma</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Gopalakrishnan" title="M. S. Gopalakrishnan">M. S. Gopalakrishnan</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasraj" title="Jasraj">Jasraj</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amjad_Ali_Khan" title="Amjad Ali Khan">Amjad Ali Khan</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopi_Krishna_(dancer)" title="Gopi Krishna (dancer)">Gopi Krishna</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjukta_Panigrahi" title="Sanjukta Panigrahi">Sanjukta Panigrahi</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basavaraj_Rajguru" title="Basavaraj Rajguru">Basavaraj Rajguru</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyanam_Raghuramayya" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalyanam Raghuramayya">Kalyanam Raghuramayya</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Sathyu" title="M. S. Sathyu">M. S. Sathyu</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._G._Subramanyan" title="K. G. Subramanyan">K. G. Subramanyan</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gitchandra_Tongbra" title="Gitchandra Tongbra">Gitchandra Tongbra</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_Benegal" title="Shyam Benegal">Shyam Benegal</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Mohapatra" title="Raghunath Mohapatra">Raghunath Mohapatra</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Narayan" title="Ram Narayan">Ram Narayan</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Narayanaswamy" title="K. V. Narayanaswamy">K. V. Narayanaswamy</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Nagendra_Rao" title="R. Nagendra Rao">R. Nagendra Rao</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Somasundaram" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Somasundaram">S. Somasundaram</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parveen_Sultana" class="mw-redirect" title="Parveen Sultana">Parveen Sultana</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhanraj_Bhagat" title="Dhanraj Bhagat">Dhanraj Bhagat</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Hazarika" title="Bhupen Hazarika">Bhupen Hazarika</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheik_Chinna_Moulana" title="Sheik Chinna Moulana">Sheik Chinna Moulana</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alla_Rakha" title="Alla Rakha">Alla Rakha</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehangir_Sabavala" title="Jehangir Sabavala">Jehangir Sabavala</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Rasool_Santosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghulam Rasool Santosh">Ghulam Rasool Santosh</a> (1977)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">B. V. Karanth</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namagiripettai_Krishnan" title="Namagiripettai Krishnan">Namagiripettai Krishnan</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambhir_Singh_Mura" title="Gambhir Singh Mura">Gambhir Singh Mura</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dashrath_Patel" title="Dashrath Patel">Dashrath Patel</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._H._Raza" title="S. H. Raza">S. H. Raza</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padma_Subrahmanyam" title="Padma Subrahmanyam">Padma Subrahmanyam</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allah_Jilai_Bai" title="Allah Jilai Bai">Allah Jilai Bai</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ammannur_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Ammannur Madhava Chakyar">Ammannur Madhava Chakyar</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabbar_Patel" title="Jabbar Patel">Jabbar Patel</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virendra_Prabhakar" title="Virendra Prabhakar">Virendra Prabhakar</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gautam_Vaghela" title="Gautam Vaghela">Gautam Vaghela</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirkazhi_Govindarajan" title="Sirkazhi Govindarajan">Sirkazhi Govindarajan</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gautam_Vaghela" title="Gautam Vaghela">Gautam Vaghela</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirkazhi_Govindarajan" title="Sirkazhi Govindarajan">Sirkazhi Govindarajan</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharafat_Hussain_Khan" title="Sharafat Hussain Khan">Sharafat Hussain Khan</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepal_Mahata" title="Nepal Mahata">Nepal Mahata</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handel_Manuel" title="Handel Manuel">Handel Manuel</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulam_Mohammed_Sheikh" title="Gulam Mohammed Sheikh">Gulam Mohammed Sheikh</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghubir_Singh_(photographer)" title="Raghubir Singh (photographer)">Raghubir Singh</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sobha_Singh_(painter)" title="Sobha Singh (painter)">Sobha Singh</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habib_Tanvir" title="Habib Tanvir">Habib Tanvir</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganga_Devi_(painter)" title="Ganga Devi (painter)">Ganga Devi</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan" title="Amitabh Bachchan">Amitabh Bachchan</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purushottam_Das" title="Purushottam Das">Purushottam Das</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoor_Gopalakrishnan" title="Adoor Gopalakrishnan">Adoor Gopalakrishnan</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Khakhar" title="Bhupen Khakhar">Bhupen Khakhar</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Kingsley" title="Ben Kingsley">Ben Kingsley</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinay_Chandra_Maudgalya" title="Vinay Chandra Maudgalya">Vinay Chandra Maudgalya</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roshan_Kumari" title="Roshan Kumari">Roshan Kumari</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mavelikara_Krishnankutty_Nair" title="Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair">Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Rajam" title="N. Rajam">N. Rajam</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_and_Radha_Reddy" title="Raja and Radha Reddy">Raja and Radha Reddy</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nek_Chand" title="Nek Chand">Nek Chand</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Gopal_Vijayvargiya" title="Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya">Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanti_Dave" title="Shanti Dave">Shanti Dave</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asa_Singh_Mastana" title="Asa Singh Mastana">Asa Singh Mastana</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laxman_Pai" title="Laxman Pai">Laxman Pai</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smita_Patil" title="Smita Patil">Smita Patil</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palghat_R._Raghu" title="Palghat R. Raghu">Palghat R. Raghu</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naseeruddin_Shah" title="Naseeruddin Shah">Naseeruddin Shah</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar_Bapu_Apegaonkar" title="Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar">Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanika_Banerjee" title="Kanika Banerjee">Kanika Banerjee</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subrata_Mitra" title="Subrata Mitra">Subrata Mitra</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajkumar_Singhajit_Singh" title="Rajkumar Singhajit Singh">Rajkumar Singhajit Singh</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hisam-ud-din_Usta" title="Hisam-ud-din Usta">Hisam-ud-din Usta</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Balachander" title="K. Balachander">K. Balachander</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumudini_Lakhia" title="Kumudini Lakhia">Kumudini Lakhia</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijaya_Mehta" title="Vijaya Mehta">Vijaya Mehta</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Ramani" title="N. Ramani">N. Ramani</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aparna_Sen" title="Aparna Sen">Aparna Sen</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naresh_Sohal" title="Naresh Sohal">Naresh Sohal</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jitendra_Abhisheki" title="Jitendra Abhisheki">Jitendra Abhisheki</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shabana_Azmi" title="Shabana Azmi">Shabana Azmi</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teejan_Bai" title="Teejan Bai">Teejan Bai</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bikash_Bhattacharjee" title="Bikash Bhattacharjee">Bikash Bhattacharjee</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakir_Hussain_(musician)" title="Zakir Hussain (musician)">Zakir Hussain</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chindodi_Leela" title="Chindodi Leela">Chindodi Leela</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudharani_Raghupathy" title="Sudharani Raghupathy">Sudharani Raghupathy</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudarshan_Sahoo" title="Sudarshan Sahoo">Sudarshan Sahoo</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kudrat_Singh" title="Kudrat Singh">Kudrat Singh</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umayalpuram_K._Sivaraman" title="Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman">Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jitendra_Abhisheki" title="Jitendra Abhisheki">Jitendra Abhisheki</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adyar_K._Lakshman" title="Adyar K. Lakshman">Adyar K. Lakshman</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haku_Shah" title="Haku Shah">Haku Shah</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._Subramaniam" title="L. Subramaniam">L. Subramaniam</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratan_Thiyam" title="Ratan Thiyam">Ratan Thiyam</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upendra_Trivedi" title="Upendra Trivedi">Upendra Trivedi</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Agashe" title="Mohan Agashe">Mohan Agashe</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Aravindan" title="G. Aravindan">G. Aravindan</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prabha_Atre" title="Prabha Atre">Prabha Atre</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asgari_Bai" title="Asgari Bai">Asgari Bai</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulab_Bai" title="Gulab Bai">Gulab Bai</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balwantrai_Bhatt" title="Balwantrai Bhatt">Balwantrai Bhatt</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diwaliben_Bhil" title="Diwaliben Bhil">Diwaliben Bhil</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raj_Bisaria" title="Raj Bisaria">Raj Bisaria</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Ganapathy" title="S. M. Ganapathy">S. M. Ganapathy</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Haasan" title="Kamal Haasan">Kamal Haasan</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishamber_Khanna" title="Bishamber Khanna">Bishamber Khanna</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishen_Khanna" title="Krishen Khanna">Krishen Khanna</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allu_Ramalingaiah" title="Allu Ramalingaiah">Allu Ramalingaiah</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarun_Majumdar" title="Tarun Majumdar">Tarun Majumdar</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhavi_Mudgal" title="Madhavi Mudgal">Madhavi Mudgal</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Om_Puri" title="Om Puri">Om Puri</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanak_Rele" title="Kanak Rele">Kanak Rele</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leela_Samson" title="Leela Samson">Leela Samson</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharajapuram_Santhanam" title="Maharajapuram Santhanam">Maharajapuram Santhanam</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapila_Vatsyayan" title="Kapila Vatsyayan">Kapila Vatsyayan</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranbir_Singh_Bisht" title="Ranbir Singh Bisht">Ranbir Singh Bisht</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharat_Gopy" title="Bharat Gopy">Bharat Gopy</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Mustafa_Khan_(singer)" title="Ghulam Mustafa Khan (singer)">Ghulam Mustafa Khan</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafeez_Ahmed_Khan" title="Hafeez Ahmed Khan">Hafeez Ahmed Khan</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanno_Khurana" title="Shanno Khurana">Shanno Khurana</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratima_Barua_Pandey" title="Pratima Barua Pandey">Pratima Barua Pandey</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manu_Parekh" title="Manu Parekh">Manu Parekh</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivkumar_Sharma" title="Shivkumar Sharma">Shivkumar Sharma</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurcharan_Singh_(painter)" title="Gurcharan Singh (painter)">Gurcharan Singh (painter)</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharda_Sinha" title="Sharda Sinha">Sharda Sinha</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alarmel_Valli" title="Alarmel Valli">Alarmel Valli</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaya_Bachchan" title="Jaya Bachchan">Jaya Bachchan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Charan_Das" title="Pankaj Charan Das">Pankaj Charan Das</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biren_De" title="Biren De">Biren De</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Srirangam_Gopalaratnam" title="Srirangam Gopalaratnam">Srirangam Gopalaratnam</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabri_Khan" title="Sabri Khan">Sabri Khan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunita_Kohli" title="Sunita Kohli">Sunita Kohli</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madurai_N._Krishnan" title="Madurai N. Krishnan">Madurai N. Krishnan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manoj_Kumar" title="Manoj Kumar">Manoj Kumar</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meera_Mukherjee" title="Meera Mukherjee">Meera Mukherjee</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asha_Parekh" title="Asha Parekh">Asha Parekh</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nataraja_Ramakrishna" title="Nataraja Ramakrishna">Nataraja Ramakrishna</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhagaban_Sahu" title="Bhagaban Sahu">Bhagaban Sahu</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anandji_Virji_Shah" title="Anandji Virji Shah">Anandji Virji Shah</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyanji_Virji_Shah" title="Kalyanji Virji Shah">Kalyanji Virji Shah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kalyanji-Anandji" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalyanji-Anandji">Kalyanji-Anandji</a>) (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundari_K._Shridharani" title="Sundari K. Shridharani">Sundari K. Shridharani</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapan_Sinha" title="Tapan Sinha">Tapan Sinha</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muthiah_Sthapati" title="Muthiah Sthapati">Muthiah Sthapati</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Viswanath" title="K. Viswanath">K. Viswanath</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chitra_Visweswaran" title="Chitra Visweswaran">Chitra Visweswaran</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dipali_Barthakur" title="Dipali Barthakur">Dipali Barthakur</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mammootty" title="Mammootty">Mammootty</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunja_Bihari_Meher" title="Kunja Bihari Meher">Kunja Bihari Meher</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnarao_Sable" title="Krishnarao Sable">Krishnarao Sable</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zohra_Sehgal" title="Zohra Sehgal">Zohra Sehgal</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Ibomcha_Sharma" title="K. Ibomcha Sharma">K. Ibomcha Sharma</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/U._Srinivas" title="U. Srinivas">U. Srinivas</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Javed_Akhtar" title="Javed Akhtar">Javed Akhtar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saryu_Doshi" title="Saryu Doshi">Saryu Doshi</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulochana_Latkar" title="Sulochana Latkar">Sulochana Latkar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumati_Mutatkar" title="Sumati Mutatkar">Sumati Mutatkar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shobha_Deepak_Singh" title="Shobha Deepak Singh">Shobha Deepak Singh</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagmohan_Sursagar" title="Jagmohan Sursagar">Jagmohan Sursagar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_V._Sutar" title="Ram V. Sutar">Ram V. Sutar</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kanhai_Chitrakar" title="Kanhai Chitrakar">Kanhai Chitrakar</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shekhar_Kapur" title="Shekhar Kapur">Shekhar Kapur</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hema_Malini" title="Hema Malini">Hema Malini</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anjolie_Ela_Menon" title="Anjolie Ela Menon">Anjolie Ela Menon</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shubha_Mudgal" title="Shubha Mudgal">Shubha Mudgal</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alyque_Padamsee" title="Alyque Padamsee">Alyque Padamsee</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramanand_Sagar" title="Ramanand Sagar">Ramanand Sagar</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aamir_Raza_Husain" title="Aamir Raza Husain">Aamir Raza Husain</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padmaja_Phenany_Joglekar" title="Padmaja Phenany Joglekar">Padmaja Phenany Joglekar</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Tayab_Khan" title="Mohammed Tayab Khan">Mohammed Tayab Khan</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Kothari" title="Sunil Kothari">Sunil Kothari</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nerella_Venu_Madhav" title="Nerella Venu Madhav">Nerella Venu Madhav</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohanlal" title="Mohanlal">Mohanlal</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shobha_Naidu" class="mw-redirect" title="Shobha Naidu">Shobha Naidu</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._V._S._Raju" title="D. V. S. Raju">D. V. S. Raju</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avadhanam_Sita_Raman" title="Avadhanam Sita Raman">Avadhanam Sita Raman</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siramdasu_Venkata_Rama_Rao" title="Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao">Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thota_Tharani" title="Thota Tharani">Thota Tharani</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._D._Amaradeva" title="W. D. Amaradeva">W. D. Amaradeva</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raj_Begum" title="Raj Begum">Raj Begum</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushpa_Bhuyan" title="Pushpa Bhuyan">Pushpa Bhuyan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajan_Devadas" title="Rajan Devadas">Rajan Devadas</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darshana_Jhaveri" title="Darshana Jhaveri">Darshana Jhaveri</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Khan" title="Abdul Latif Khan">Abdul Latif Khan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Krishnaswami" title="Mani Krishnaswami">Mani Krishnaswami</a> (2002)</li> <li>Fazal Mohammad (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manorama_(Tamil_actress)" title="Manorama (Tamil actress)">Manorama</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govind_Nihalani" title="Govind Nihalani">Govind Nihalani</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Ratnam" title="Mani Ratnam">Mani Ratnam</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiran_Segal" title="Kiran Segal">Kiran Segal</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navaneetham_Padmanabha_Seshadri" title="Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri">Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saroja_Vaidyanathan" title="Saroja Vaidyanathan">Saroja Vaidyanathan</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._Vinayakram" title="T. H. Vinayakram">T. H. Vinayakram</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jahnu_Barua" title="Jahnu Barua">Jahnu Barua</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Denzongpa" title="Danny Denzongpa">Danny Denzongpa</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kshetrimayum_Ongbi_Thouranisabi_Devi" title="Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi">Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rita_Ganguly" title="Rita Ganguly">Rita Ganguly</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjana_Gauhar" title="Ranjana Gauhar">Ranjana Gauhar</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadashiv_Vasantrao_Gorakshkar" title="Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar">Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rakhee_Gulzar" title="Rakhee Gulzar">Rakhee Gulzar</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemi_Chandra_Jain" title="Nemi Chandra Jain">Nemi Chandra Jain</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._P._Jain" title="O. P. Jain">O. P. Jain</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aamir_Khan" title="Aamir Khan">Aamir Khan</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shafaat_Ahmed_Khan" title="Shafaat Ahmed Khan">Shafaat Ahmed Khan</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._M._Soundararajan" title="T. M. Soundararajan">T. M. Soundararajan</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukumari" title="Sukumari">Sukumari</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satish_Vyas_(musician)" title="Satish Vyas (musician)">Satish Vyas</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharathiraja" title="Bharathiraja">Bharathiraja</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maguni_Charan_Das" title="Maguni Charan Das">Maguni Charan Das</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manoranjan_Das" title="Manoranjan Das">Manoranjan Das</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._K._Datar" title="D. K. Datar">D. K. Datar</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kadri_Gopalnath" title="Kadri Gopalnath">Kadri Gopalnath</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hariharan_(singer)" title="Hariharan (singer)">Hariharan (singer)</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purshottam_Das_Jalota" title="Purshottam Das Jalota">Purshottam Das Jalota</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishn_Kanhai" title="Krishn Kanhai">Krishn Kanhai</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heisnam_Kanhailal" title="Heisnam Kanhailal">Heisnam Kanhailal</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anupam_Kher" title="Anupam Kher">Anupam Kher</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikkil_Sisters_%E2%80%93_Kunjumani_%26_Neela" class="mw-redirect" title="Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela">Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keezhpadam_Kumaran_Nair" title="Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair">Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudha_Ragunathan" title="Sudha Ragunathan">Sudha Ragunathan</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haridwaramangalam_A._K._Palanivel" title="Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel">Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veernala_Jayarama_Rao" title="Veernala Jayarama Rao">Veernala Jayarama Rao</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bharati_Shivaji" title="Bharati Shivaji">Bharati Shivaji</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singh_Bandhu" title="Singh Bandhu">Singh Bandhu</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhajan_Sopori" title="Bhajan Sopori">Bhajan Sopori</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neyyattinkara_Vasudevan" title="Neyyattinkara Vasudevan">Neyyattinkara Vasudevan</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muzaffar_Ali" title="Muzaffar Ali">Muzaffar Ali</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shameem_Dev_Azad" class="mw-redirect" title="Shameem Dev Azad">Shameem Dev Azad</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Boyer" title="M. Boyer">M. Boyer</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._S._Chithra" title="K. S. Chithra">K. S. Chithra</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yumlembam_Gambhini_Devi" title="Yumlembam Gambhini Devi">Yumlembam Gambhini Devi</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shah_Rukh_Khan" title="Shah Rukh Khan">Shah Rukh Khan</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Sadiq_Khan" title="Ghulam Sadiq Khan">Ghulam Sadiq Khan</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kavita_Krishnamurti" title="Kavita Krishnamurti">Kavita Krishnamurti</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaturbhuj_Meher" title="Chaturbhuj Meher">Chaturbhuj Meher</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumkum_Mohanty" title="Kumkum Mohanty">Kumkum Mohanty</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punaram_Nishad" title="Punaram Nishad">Punaram Nishad</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kedar_Nath_Sahoo" title="Kedar Nath Sahoo">Kedar Nath Sahoo</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sougaijam_Thanil_Singh" title="Sougaijam Thanil Singh">Sougaijam Thanil Singh</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunnakudi_Vaidyanathan" title="Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan">Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komala_Varadan" title="Komala Varadan">Komala Varadan</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puranchand_Wadali" class="mw-redirect" title="Puranchand Wadali">Puranchand Wadali</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ileana_Citaristi" title="Ileana Citaristi">Ileana Citaristi</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehmood_Dhaulpuri" title="Mehmood Dhaulpuri">Mehmood Dhaulpuri</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shree_Lal_Joshi" title="Shree Lal Joshi">Shree Lal Joshi</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surinder_Kaur" title="Surinder Kaur">Surinder Kaur</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashid_Khan_(musician)" title="Rashid Khan (musician)">Rashid Khan (musician)</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasundhara_Komkali" title="Vasundhara Komkali">Vasundhara Komkali</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yashodhar_Mathpal" title="Yashodhar Mathpal">Yashodhar Mathpal</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhup_Mudgal" title="Madhup Mudgal">Madhup Mudgal</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kavungal_Chathunni_Panicker" title="Kavungal Chathunni Panicker">Kavungal Chathunni Panicker</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyama_Charan_Pati" title="Shyama Charan Pati">Shyama Charan Pati</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayatri_Sankaran" title="Gayatri Sankaran">Gayatri Sankaran</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prasad_Sawkar" title="Prasad Sawkar">Prasad Sawkar</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aribam_Syam_Sharma" title="Aribam Syam Sharma">Aribam Syam Sharma</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shobana" title="Shobana">Shobana</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanaka_Srinivasan" title="Kanaka Srinivasan">Kanaka Srinivasan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Udhas" title="Pankaj Udhas">Pankaj Udhas</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Babu" title="Mohan Babu">Mohan Babu</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geeta_Chandran" title="Geeta Chandran">Geeta Chandran</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astad_Deboo" title="Astad Deboo">Astad Deboo</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neelamani_Devi" title="Neelamani Devi">Neelamani Devi</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Remo_Fernandes" title="Remo Fernandes">Remo Fernandes</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Gopinathan" title="P. Gopinathan">P. Gopinathan</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushpa_Hans" title="Pushpa Hans">Pushpa Hans</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanti_Hiranand" title="Shanti Hiranand">Shanti Hiranand</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananda_Shankar_Jayant" title="Ananda Shankar Jayant">Ananda Shankar Jayant</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govardhan_Kumari" title="Govardhan Kumari">Govardhan Kumari</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonam_Tshering_Lepcha" title="Sonam Tshering Lepcha">Sonam Tshering Lepcha</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balachandra_Menon" title="Balachandra Menon">Balachandra Menon</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shashikala" title="Shashikala">Shashikala</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gajendra_Narayan_Singh_(musicologist)" title="Gajendra Narayan Singh (musicologist)">Gajendra Narayan Singh</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thingbaijam_Babu_Singh" title="Thingbaijam Babu Singh">Thingbaijam Babu Singh</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pannuru_Sripathy" title="Pannuru Sripathy">Pannuru Sripathy</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valayapatti_A._R._Subramaniam" title="Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam">Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waman_Thakre" title="Waman Thakre">Waman Thakre</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._R._Thilagam" title="P. R. Thilagam">P. R. Thilagam</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Alter" title="Tom Alter">Tom Alter</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moozhikkulam_Kochukuttan_Chakyar" title="Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar">Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonnalagadda_Gurappa_Chetty" title="Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty">Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meenakshi_Chitharanjan" title="Meenakshi Chitharanjan">Meenakshi Chitharanjan</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhuri_Dixit" title="Madhuri Dixit">Madhuri Dixit Nene</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kekoo_Gandhy" title="Kekoo Gandhy">Kekoo Gandhy</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Giri_Syiem" title="Helen Giri Syiem">Helen Giri Syiem</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jatin_Goswami" title="Jatin Goswami">Jatin Goswami</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Raj_Hans" title="Hans Raj Hans">Hans Raj Hans</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabitri_Heisnam" title="Sabitri Heisnam">Sabitri Heisnam</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gokulotsavji_Maharaj" title="Gokulotsavji Maharaj">Gokulotsavji Maharaj</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._K._Narayanan_Nambiar" title="P. 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Lankesh">P. Lankesh</a> <a href="/wiki/24th_National_Film_Awards" title="24th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1976)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Aravindan" title="G. Aravindan">G. Aravindan</a> <a href="/wiki/25th_National_Film_Awards" title="25th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1977)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Aravindan" title="G. Aravindan">G. 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Aravindan">G. Aravindan</a> <a href="/wiki/34th_National_Film_Awards" title="34th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1986)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoor_Gopalakrishnan" title="Adoor Gopalakrishnan">Adoor Gopalakrishnan</a> <a href="/wiki/35th_National_Film_Awards" title="35th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1987)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaji_N._Karun" title="Shaji N. Karun">Shaji N. 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V. Chandran">T. V. Chandran</a> <a href="/wiki/41st_National_Film_Awards" title="41st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1993)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jahnu_Barua" title="Jahnu Barua">Jahnu Barua</a> <a href="/wiki/42nd_National_Film_Awards" title="42nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1994)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saeed_Akhtar_Mirza" title="Saeed Akhtar Mirza">Saeed Akhtar Mirza</a> <a href="/wiki/43rd_National_Film_Awards" title="43rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1995)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathiyan" title="Agathiyan">Agathiyan</a> <a href="/wiki/44th_National_Film_Awards" title="44th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1996)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayaraj" title="Jayaraj">Jayaraj</a> <a href="/wiki/45th_National_Film_Awards" title="45th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1997)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajeevnath" title="Rajeevnath">Rajeevnath</a> <a href="/wiki/46th_National_Film_Awards" title="46th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1998)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhadeb_Dasgupta" title="Buddhadeb Dasgupta">Buddhadeb Dasgupta</a> <a href="/wiki/47th_National_Film_Awards" title="47th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1999)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rituparno_Ghosh" title="Rituparno Ghosh">Rituparno Ghosh</a> <a href="/wiki/48th_National_Film_Awards" title="48th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2000)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2001–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B._Lenin" title="B. 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title="Madhur Bhandarkar">Madhur Bhandarkar</a> <a href="/wiki/54th_National_Film_Awards" title="54th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2006)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoor_Gopalakrishnan" title="Adoor Gopalakrishnan">Adoor Gopalakrishnan</a> <a href="/wiki/55th_National_Film_Awards" title="55th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2007)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bala_(director)" title="Bala (director)">Bala</a> <a href="/wiki/56th_National_Film_Awards" title="56th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2008)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rituparno_Ghosh" title="Rituparno Ghosh">Rituparno Ghosh</a> <a href="/wiki/57th_National_Film_Awards" title="57th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2009)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vetrimaaran" title="Vetrimaaran">Vetrimaaran</a> <a href="/wiki/58th_National_Film_Awards" title="58th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></a></li> 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V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> <a href="/wiki/15th_National_Film_Awards" title="15th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1967)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyanji%E2%80%93Anandji" title="Kalyanji–Anandji">Kalyanji–Anandji</a> <a href="/wiki/16th_National_Film_Awards" title="16th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1968)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Mohinder" title="S. Mohinder">S. Mohinder</a> <a href="/wiki/17th_National_Film_Awards" title="17th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1969)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madan_Mohan_(composer)" title="Madan Mohan (composer)">Madan Mohan</a> <a href="/wiki/18th_National_Film_Awards" title="18th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1970)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaidev" title="Jaidev">Jaidev</a> <a href="/wiki/19th_National_Film_Awards" title="19th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1971)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._D._Burman" title="S. D. Burman">S. D. Burman</a> <a href="/wiki/20th_National_Film_Awards" title="20th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1972)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> <a href="/wiki/21st_National_Film_Awards" title="21st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1973)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananda_Shankar" title="Ananda Shankar">Ananda Shankar</a> <a href="/wiki/22nd_National_Film_Awards" title="22nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1974)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Hazarika" title="Bhupen Hazarika">Bhupen Hazarika</a> <a href="/wiki/23rd_National_Film_Awards" title="23rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1975)</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">B. V. Karanth</a> <a href="/wiki/24th_National_Film_Awards" title="24th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1976)</span></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">B. V. Karanth</a> <a href="/wiki/25th_National_Film_Awards" title="25th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1977)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaidev" title="Jaidev">Jaidev</a> <a href="/wiki/26th_National_Film_Awards" title="26th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1978)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a> <a href="/wiki/27th_National_Film_Awards" title="27th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1979)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> <a href="/wiki/28th_National_Film_Awards" title="28th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1980)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Zahur_Khayyam" title="Mohammed Zahur Khayyam">Khayyam</a> <a href="/wiki/29th_National_Film_Awards" title="29th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1981)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Naidu" title="Ramesh Naidu">Ramesh Naidu</a> <a href="/wiki/30th_National_Film_Awards" title="30th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1982)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/31st_National_Film_Awards" title="31st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1983)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaidev" title="Jaidev">Jaidev</a> <a href="/wiki/32nd_National_Film_Awards" title="32nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1984)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/33rd_National_Film_Awards" title="33rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1985)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Balamuralikrishna" title="M. Balamuralikrishna">M. Balamuralikrishna</a> <a href="/wiki/34th_National_Film_Awards" title="34th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1986)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanraj_Bhatia" title="Vanraj Bhatia">Vanraj Bhatia</a> <a href="/wiki/35th_National_Film_Awards" title="35th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1987)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/36th_National_Film_Awards" title="36th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1988)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sher_Chowdhary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sher Chowdhary (page does not exist)">Sher Chowdhary</a> <a href="/wiki/37th_National_Film_Awards" title="37th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1989)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hridaynath_Mangeshkar" title="Hridaynath Mangeshkar">Hridaynath Mangeshkar</a> <a href="/wiki/38th_National_Film_Awards" title="38th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1990)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajat_Dholakia" title="Rajat Dholakia">Rajat Dholakia</a> <a href="/wiki/39th_National_Film_Awards" title="39th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1991)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/40th_National_Film_Awards" title="40th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1992)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_(composer)" title="Johnson (composer)">Johnson</a> <a href="/wiki/41st_National_Film_Awards" title="41st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1993)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_(composer)" title="Ravi (composer)">Ravi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Johnson_(composer)" title="Johnson (composer)">Johnson</a> <a href="/wiki/42nd_National_Film_Awards" title="42nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1994)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamsalekha" title="Hamsalekha">Hamsalekha</a> <a href="/wiki/43rd_National_Film_Awards" title="43rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1995)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/44th_National_Film_Awards" title="44th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1996)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. M. Keeravani">M. M. Keeravani</a> <a href="/wiki/45th_National_Film_Awards" title="45th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1997)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj" title="Vishal Bhardwaj">Vishal Bhardwaj</a> <a href="/wiki/46th_National_Film_Awards" title="46th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1998)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismail_Darbar" title="Ismail Darbar">Ismail Darbar</a> <a href="/wiki/47th_National_Film_Awards" title="47th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(1999)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anu_Malik" title="Anu Malik">Anu Malik</a> <a href="/wiki/48th_National_Film_Awards" title="48th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2000)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2001–2008</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/49th_National_Film_Awards" title="49th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2001)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/50th_National_Film_Awards" title="50th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2002)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankar%E2%80%93Ehsaan%E2%80%93Loy" title="Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy">Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy</a> <a href="/wiki/51st_National_Film_Awards" title="51st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2003)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a> <a href="/wiki/52nd_National_Film_Awards" title="52nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2004)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalgudi_Jayaraman" title="Lalgudi Jayaraman">Lalgudi Jayaraman</a> <a href="/wiki/53rd_National_Film_Awards" title="53rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2005)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Patki" title="Ashok Patki">Ashok Patki</a> <a href="/wiki/54th_National_Film_Awards" title="54th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2006)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouseppachan" title="Ouseppachan">Ouseppachan</a> <a href="/wiki/55th_National_Film_Awards" title="55th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2007)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajay-Atul" title="Ajay-Atul">Ajay-Atul</a> <a href="/wiki/56th_National_Film_Awards" title="56th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2008)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2009–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amit_Trivedi" title="Amit Trivedi">Amit Trivedi</a> <a href="/wiki/57th_National_Film_Awards" title="57th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2009)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj" title="Vishal Bhardwaj">Vishal Bhardwaj</a> <a href="/wiki/58th_National_Film_Awards" title="58th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neel_Dutt" title="Neel Dutt">Neel Dutt</a> <a href="/wiki/59th_National_Film_Awards" title="59th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2011)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shailendra_Barve&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shailendra Barve (page does not exist)">Shailendra Barve</a> <a href="/wiki/60th_National_Film_Awards" title="60th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2012)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabir_Suman" title="Kabir Suman">Kabir Suman</a> <a href="/wiki/61st_National_Film_Awards" title="61st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2013)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj" title="Vishal Bhardwaj">Vishal Bhardwaj</a> <a href="/wiki/62nd_National_Film_Awards" title="62nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2014)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a> <a href="/wiki/63rd_National_Film_Awards" title="63rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2015)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bapu_Padmanabha" title="Bapu Padmanabha">Bapu Padmanabha</a> <a href="/wiki/64th_National_Film_Awards" title="64th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2016)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/65th_National_Film_Awards" title="65th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjay_Leela_Bhansali" title="Sanjay Leela Bhansali">Sanjay Leela Bhansali</a> <a href="/wiki/66th_National_Film_Awards" title="66th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2018)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Imman" title="D. Imman">D. Imman</a> <a href="/wiki/67th_National_Film_Awards" title="67th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2019)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaman_S" title="Thaman S">Thaman S</a> <a href="/wiki/68th_National_Film_Awards" title="68th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2020)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Background music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/57th_National_Film_Awards" title="57th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2009)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Thomas_Kottukapally" title="Isaac Thomas Kottukapally">Isaac Thomas Kottukapally</a> <a href="/wiki/58th_National_Film_Awards" title="58th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mayookh_Bhaumik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mayookh Bhaumik (page does not exist)">Mayookh Bhaumik</a> <a href="/wiki/59th_National_Film_Awards" title="59th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2011)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bijibal" title="Bijibal">Bijibal</a> <a href="/wiki/60th_National_Film_Awards" title="60th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2012)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shantanu_Moitra" title="Shantanu Moitra">Shantanu Moitra</a> <a href="/wiki/61st_National_Film_Awards" title="61st National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2013)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopi_Sundar" title="Gopi Sundar">Gopi Sundar</a> <a href="/wiki/62nd_National_Film_Awards" title="62nd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2014)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a> <a href="/wiki/63rd_National_Film_Awards" title="63rd National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2015)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bapu_Padmanabha" title="Bapu Padmanabha">Bapu Padmanabha</a> <a href="/wiki/64th_National_Film_Awards" title="64th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2016)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/65th_National_Film_Awards" title="65th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shashwat_Sachdev" title="Shashwat Sachdev">Shashwat Sachdev</a> <a href="/wiki/66th_National_Film_Awards" title="66th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2018)</span></a></li> <li>Prabuddha Banerjee <a href="/wiki/67th_National_Film_Awards" title="67th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2019)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._V._Prakash_Kumar" title="G. V. Prakash Kumar">G. V. Prakash Kumar</a> <a href="/wiki/68th_National_Film_Awards" title="68th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2020)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #BDB76B;width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Sri_Prasad" title="Devi Sri Prasad">Devi Sri Prasad</a> <a href="/wiki/69th_National_Film_Awards" title="69th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2021)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pritam" title="Pritam">Pritam</a> <a href="/wiki/70th_National_Film_Awards" title="70th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2022)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DFD98D;width:1%">Background music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._M._Keeravani" title="M. 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Rahman</a> <a href="/wiki/70th_National_Film_Awards" title="70th National Film Awards"><span style="font-size:85%;">(2022)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Screenplay74" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #EEDD82"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="Template:Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="Template talk:Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Screenplay74" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Filmfare_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay">Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1969–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nabendu_Ghosh" title="Nabendu Ghosh">Nabendu Ghosh</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee" title="Hrishikesh Mukherjee">Hrishikesh Mukherjee</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Anand_(Hindi_film_maker)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vijay Anand (Hindi film maker)">Vijay Anand</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basu_Chatterjee" title="Basu Chatterjee">Basu Chatterjee</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arvind_Mukherjee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arvind Mukherjee (page does not exist)">Arvind Mukherjee</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salim-Javed" class="mw-redirect" title="Salim-Javed">Salim-Javed</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shama_Zaidi" title="Shama Zaidi">Shama Zaidi</a> & <a href="/wiki/Kaifi_Azmi" title="Kaifi Azmi">Kaifi Azmi</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salim-Javed" class="mw-redirect" title="Salim-Javed">Salim-Javed</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basu_Chatterjee" title="Basu Chatterjee">Basu Chatterjee</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lekh_Tandon" title="Lekh Tandon">Lekh Tandon</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vrajendra_Kaur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vrajendra Kaur (page does not exist)">Vrajendra Kaur</a> & <a href="/w/index.php?title=Madhusudan_Kalekar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Madhusudan Kalekar (page does not exist)">Madhusudan Kalekar</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamleshwar_(writer)" title="Kamleshwar (writer)">Kamleshwar</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a> & <a class="mw-selflink selflink">B. V. Karanth</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Tendulkar" title="Vijay Tendulkar">Vijay Tendulkar</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Balachander" title="K. Balachander">K. Balachander</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salim-Javed" class="mw-redirect" title="Salim-Javed">Salim-Javed</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Tendulkar" title="Vijay Tendulkar">Vijay Tendulkar</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrinal_Sen" title="Mrinal Sen">Mrinal Sen</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goutam_Ghose" title="Goutam Ghose">Goutam Ghose</a> & <a href="/wiki/Partha_Banerjee" title="Partha Banerjee">Partha Banerjee</a> (1986)</li> <li><i>no award</i> (1987)</li> <li><i>no award</i> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasir_Hussain" title="Nasir Hussain">Nasir Hussain</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shiv_Kumar_Subramaniam" title="Shiv Kumar Subramaniam">Shiv Kumar Subramaniam</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basu_Chatterjee" title="Basu Chatterjee">Basu Chatterjee</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapan_Sinha" title="Tapan Sinha">Tapan Sinha</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aziz_Mirza" title="Aziz Mirza">Aziz Mirza</a> & <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manoj_Lalwani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manoj Lalwani (page does not exist)">Manoj Lalwani</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Bhatt" title="Robin Bhatt">Robin Bhatt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Javed_Siddiqui" title="Javed Siddiqui">Javed Siddiqui</a> & <a href="/wiki/Akash_Khurana" title="Akash Khurana">Akash Khurana</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sooraj_Barjatya" title="Sooraj Barjatya">Sooraj Barjatya</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aditya_Chopra" title="Aditya Chopra">Aditya Chopra</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajkumar_Santoshi" title="Rajkumar Santoshi">Rajkumar Santoshi</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subhash_Ghai" title="Subhash Ghai">Subhash Ghai</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karan_Johar" title="Karan Johar">Karan Johar</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Matthew_Matthan" title="John Matthew Matthan">John Matthew Matthan</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: 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href="/w/index.php?title=Nina_Arora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nina Arora (page does not exist)">Nina Arora</a> & <a href="/wiki/Manoj_Tyagi" title="Manoj Tyagi">Manoj Tyagi</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaideep_Sahni" title="Jaideep Sahni">Jaideep Sahni</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anurag_Basu" title="Anurag Basu">Anurag Basu</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yogendra_Vinayak_Joshi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yogendra Vinayak Joshi (page does not exist)">Yogendra Vinayak Joshi</a> & <a href="/wiki/Upendra_Sidhaye" title="Upendra Sidhaye">Upendra Sidhaye</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajkumar_Hirani" title="Rajkumar Hirani">Rajkumar Hirani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vidhu_Vinod_Chopra" title="Vidhu Vinod Chopra">Vidhu Vinod Chopra</a> & <a href="/wiki/Abhijat_Joshi" title="Abhijat Joshi">Abhijat Joshi</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anurag_Kashyap" title="Anurag Kashyap">Anurag Kashyap</a> & <a href="/wiki/Vikramaditya_Motwane" title="Vikramaditya Motwane">Vikramaditya Motwane</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akshat_Verma" title="Akshat Verma">Akshat Verma</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjay_Chauhan_(screenwriter)" title="Sanjay Chauhan (screenwriter)">Sanjay Chauhan</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tigmanshu_Dhulia" title="Tigmanshu Dhulia">Tigmanshu Dhulia</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chetan_Bhagat" title="Chetan Bhagat">Chetan Bhagat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abhishek_Kapoor" title="Abhishek Kapoor">Abhishek Kapoor</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Supratik_Sen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Supratik Sen (page does not exist)">Supratik Sen</a> & <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pubali_Chaudhari&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pubali Chaudhari (page does not exist)">Pubali Chaudhari</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajkumar_Hirani" title="Rajkumar Hirani">Rajkumar Hirani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abhijat_Joshi" title="Abhijat Joshi">Abhijat Joshi</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juhi_Chaturvedi" title="Juhi Chaturvedi">Juhi Chaturvedi</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakun_Batra" title="Shakun Batra">Shakun Batra</a> & <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ayesha_Devitre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ayesha Devitre (page does not exist)">Ayesha Devitre</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shubhashish_Bhutiani" title="Shubhashish Bhutiani">Shubhashish Bhutiani</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sriram_Raghavan" title="Sriram Raghavan">Sriram Raghavan</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arijit_Biswas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arijit Biswas (page does not exist)">Arijit Biswas</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pooja_Ladha_Surti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pooja Ladha Surti (page does not exist)">Pooja Ladha Surti</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yogesh_Chandekar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yogesh Chandekar (page does not exist)">Yogesh Chandekar</a> & <a href="/wiki/Hemanth_M._Rao" title="Hemanth M. Rao">Hemanth M. Rao</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoya_Akhtar" title="Zoya Akhtar">Zoya Akhtar</a> & <a href="/wiki/Reema_Kagti" title="Reema Kagti">Reema Kagti</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohena_Gera" title="Rohena Gera">Rohena Gera</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship91" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Template:Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Template talk:Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship91" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Fellowship" title="Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship">Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1954–1960</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allauddin_Khan" title="Allauddin Khan">Allauddin Khan</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafiz_Ali_Khan" title="Hafiz Ali Khan">Hafiz Ali Khan</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariyakudi_Ramanuja_Iyengar" title="Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar">Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaikudi_Sambasiva_Iyer" title="Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer">Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prithviraj_Kapoor" title="Prithviraj Kapoor">Prithviraj Kapoor</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anjanibai_Malpekar" title="Anjanibai Malpekar">Anjanibai Malpekar</a> (1958)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1961–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gopeshwar_Banerjee" title="Gopeshwar Banerjee">Gopeshwar Banerjee</a> (1962)</li> <li>D. Annaswami Bhagavathar (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uday_Shankar" title="Uday Shankar">Uday Shankar</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papanasam_Sivan" title="Papanasam Sivan">Papanasam Sivan</a> (1962)</li> <li>Swami Prajnanananda (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrikrishna_Narayan_Ratanjankar" title="Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar">Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pichu_Sambamoorthi" title="Pichu Sambamoorthi">Pichu Sambamoorthi</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhargavaram_Viththal_Varerkar" title="Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar">Mama Warerkar</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._L._Venkatarama_Iyer" title="T. L. Venkatarama Iyer">T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar</a> (1964)</li> <li>C. Saraswathi Bai (1964)</li> <li>Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._R._Deodhar" title="B. R. Deodhar">B. R. Deodhar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Raghavan" title="V. Raghavan">V. Raghavan</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._V._Rajamannar" title="P. V. Rajamannar">P. V. Rajamannar</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinayakrao_Patwardhan" title="Vinayakrao Patwardhan">Vinayakrao Patwardhan</a> (1965)</li> <li>Ganesh Hari Ranade (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilipkumar_Roy" title="Dilipkumar Roy">Dilipkumar Roy</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaideva_Singh" title="Jaideva Singh">Jaideva Singh</a> (1965)</li> <li>D. G. Vyas (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashutosh_Bhattacharya" title="Ashutosh Bhattacharya">Ashutosh Bhattacharya</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Krishna_Iyer" title="E. Krishna Iyer">E. Krishna Iyer</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sombhu_Mitra" title="Sombhu Mitra">Sombhu Mitra</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayachamarajendra_Wadiyar" title="Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar">Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebrahim_Alkazi" title="Ebrahim Alkazi">Ebrahim Alkazi</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rukmini_Devi_Arundale" title="Rukmini Devi Arundale">Rukmini Devi Arundale</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musiri_Subramania_Iyer" title="Musiri Subramania Iyer">Musiri Subramania Iyer</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bade_Ghulam_Ali_Khan" title="Bade Ghulam Ali Khan">Bade Ghulam Ali Khan</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guru_Kunchu_Kurup" title="Guru Kunchu Kurup">P. K. Kunju Kurup</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shambhu_Maharaj" title="Shambhu Maharaj">Shambhu Maharaj</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Satyanarayana_Sarma" title="V. Satyanarayana Sarma">V. Satyanarayana Sarma</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adya_Rangacharya" title="Adya Rangacharya">Adya Rangacharya</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalicharan_Pattnaik" title="Kalicharan Pattnaik">Kali Charan Patnaik</a> (1968)</li> <li>K. C. D. Brahaspati (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapila_Vatsyayan" title="Kapila Vatsyayan">Kapila Vatsyayan</a> (1970)</li> <li>Dilip Chandra Vedi (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarapada_Chakraborty" title="Tarapada Chakraborty">Tarapada Chakraborty</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnarao_Phulambrikar" title="Krishnarao Phulambrikar">Krishnarao Phulambrikar</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rallapalli_Ananta_Krishna_Sharma" title="Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma">Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivaram_Karanth" title="Shivaram Karanth">Shivaram Karanth</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamaladevi_Chattopadhyay" title="Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay">Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jnan_Prakash_Ghosh" title="Jnan Prakash Ghosh">Jnan Prakash Ghosh</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Subbulakshmi" title="M. S. Subbulakshmi">M. S. Subbulakshmi</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balasaraswati" title="Balasaraswati">T. Balasaraswati</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zubin_Mehta" title="Zubin Mehta">Zubin Mehta</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rasiklal_Parikh" title="Rasiklal Parikh">Rasiklal Parikh</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar" title="Ravi Shankar">Ravi Shankar</a> (1975)</li> <li>Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santidev_Ghosh" title="Santidev Ghosh">Santidev Ghosh</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semmangudi_Srinivasa_Iyer" title="Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer">Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer</a> (1976)</li> <li>Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor (1977)</li> <li>Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Puttaswamayya" title="B. Puttaswamayya">B. Puttaswamayya</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purushottam_Laxman_Deshpande" title="Purushottam Laxman Deshpande">Purushottam Laxman Deshpande</a> (1979)</li> <li>D. T. Joshi (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumati_Mutatkar" title="Sumati Mutatkar">Sumati Mutatkar</a> (1979)</li> <li>T. P. Kuppiah Pillai (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Narayana_Menon" title="V. K. Narayana Menon">V. K. Narayana Menon</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mani_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Mani Madhava Chakyar">Mani Madhava Chakyar</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallikarjun_Mansur" title="Mallikarjun Mansur">Mallikarjun Mansur</a> (1982)</li> <li>M. Kirupanandawari (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandravadan_Mehta" title="Chandravadan Mehta">Chandravadan Mehta</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siyaram_Tiwari_(musician)" title="Siyaram Tiwari (musician)">Siyaram Tiwari</a> (1984)</li> <li>V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komal_Kothari" title="Komal Kothari">Komal Kothari</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Ramanathan_(musician)" title="S. Ramanathan (musician)">S. Ramanathan</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Gandharva" title="Kumar Gandharva">Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali ‘Kumar Gandharva’</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utpal_Dutt" title="Utpal Dutt">Utpal Dutt</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Gopal_(dancer)" title="Ram Gopal (dancer)">Ram Gopal</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alain_Dani%C3%A9lou" title="Alain Daniélou">Alain Daniélou</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelucharan_Mohapatra" title="Kelucharan Mohapatra">Kelucharan Mohapatra</a> (1991)</li> <li>T. S. Parthasarathy (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan" title="Ali Akbar Khan">Ali Akbar Khan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._K._Pattammal" title="D. K. Pattammal">D. K. Pattammal</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prem_Lata_Sharma" title="Prem Lata Sharma">Prem Lata Sharma</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girish_Karnad" title="Girish Karnad">Girish Karnad</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrinalini_Sarabhai" title="Mrinalini Sarabhai">Mrinalini Sarabhai</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bismillah_Khan" title="Bismillah Khan">Bismillah Khan</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin" title="Yehudi Menuhin">Yehudi Menuhin</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maheswar_Neog" title="Maheswar Neog">Maheswar Neog</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vilayat_Khan" title="Vilayat Khan">Vilayat Khan</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ammannur_Madhava_Chakyar" title="Ammannur Madhava Chakyar">Ammannur Madhava Chakyar</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gangubai_Hangal" title="Gangubai Hangal">Gangubai Hangal</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Habib_Tanvir" title="Habib Tanvir">Habib Tanvir</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badal_Sarkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Badal Sarkar">Badal Sarkar</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi" title="Bhimsen Joshi">Bhimsen Joshi</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birju_Maharaj" title="Birju Maharaj">Birju Maharaj</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._P._Kittappa_Pillai" title="K. P. Kittappa Pillai">K. P. Kittappa Pillai</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Tendulkar" title="Vijay Tendulkar">Vijay Tendulkar</a> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2021</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._Balamuralikrishna" title="M. Balamuralikrishna">M. Balamuralikrishna</a> (2001)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">B. V. Karanth</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vempati_Chinna_Satyam" title="Vempati Chinna Satyam">Vempati Chinna Satyam</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanno_Khurana" title="Shanno Khurana">Shanno Khurana</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kavalam_Narayana_Panicker" title="Kavalam Narayana Panicker">Kavalam Narayana Panicker</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandralekha_(dancer)" title="Chandralekha (dancer)">Chandralekha</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annapurna_Devi" title="Annapurna Devi">Annapurna Devi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bindhyabasini_Devi" title="Bindhyabasini Devi">Bindhyabasini Devi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramankutty_Nair" title="Ramankutty Nair">Ramankutty Nair</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zohra_Sehgal" title="Zohra Sehgal">Zohra Sehgal</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapas_Sen" title="Tapas Sen">Tapas Sen</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohini_Bhate" title="Rohini Bhate">Rohini Bhate</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._N._Krishnan" title="T. N. Krishnan">T. N. Krishnan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Maharaj" title="Kishan Maharaj">Kishan Maharaj</a> (2006)</li> <li>Gursharan Singh (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ningthoukhongjam_Khelchandra" title="Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra">Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sushil_Kumar_Saxena" title="Sushil Kumar Saxena">Sushil Kumar Saxena</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khaled_Choudhury" title="Khaled Choudhury">Khaled Choudhury</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitara_Devi" title="Sitara Devi">Sitara Devi</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Hazarika" title="Bhupen Hazarika">Bhupen Hazarika</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._C._Mehta" title="R. C. Mehta">R. C. 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