Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar Ceremony honouring the exceptional recipients of 2022 & 2023 commenced with inauguration by Shri Arunish Chawla, Secretary, Ministry of Culture; Smt. Uma Nanduri, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture; Shri Joravarsinh Jadav, Vice-chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi; Dr Sandhya Purecha, Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi; and Shri Raju Das, Secretary, Sangeet Natak Akademi.

82 Young Artists Conferred with Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar for the Years 2022 and 2023 at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.

Shri Arunish Chawla, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India expressed his happiness, stating, “It is delightful to see that this year’s awardees represent the rich cultural diversity of India, hailing from every corner of the country, every region, every state, and every community’s unique heritage. Through this award, the Sangeet Natak Akademi and the Government of India have recognized their exceptional contributions to the performing arts.”

Speaking about the award ceremony, Dr Sandhya Purecha, Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi, stated, "It is truly heartening to witness how today’s young dancers have devoted themselves to their art with such focused dedication. Despite the bombardment of choices, the influence of globalization, and the distractions of the modern world, these youth have chosen their path with conviction. They strive tirelessly to master their craft, and that passion shines through in the awardees here today.”

The award ceremony will be followed by the festival of performing arts featuring the recipient of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar at three different venues Meghdoot Theatre Complex, Rabindra Bhawan, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi; Abhimanch Theatre, National School of Drama, Bhawalpur House, New Delhi and Vivekanand Auditorium, Kathak Kendra, Chanakyapuri from 22 to 26 November, 2024.

Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar

Sangeet Natak Akademi instituted the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar (UBKUP) in the name of Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan for young performing art practitioners upto the age of 40 years in 2006. The Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is given annually to outstanding young artists in the fields of music, dance, drama, folk & tribal arts and puppetry in a special ceremony held in Delhi and also outside Delhi. The Yuva Puraskar carries a purse money of Rs 25,000/- (Rupees twenty-five thousand only), a plaque and an angavastram.

The reason behind instituting the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar was to encourage and motivate the young artists in the field of music, dance, drama, folk and tribal art forms and other allied performing art forms of the country. 

The list of recipients of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the years 2022 and 2023 is as follows:

 

Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the year 2022

Field of Activity: Music -10

 

1. Samit Mallick                                           Hindustani Vocal
2. Samarth Janve                                          Hindustani Vocal
3. Sangeet Mishra                                        Hindustani Instrumental– Sarangi
4. Partho Roy Choudhury                            Hindustani Instrumental – Santoor
5. K. Gayatri                                                            Carnatic Vocal
6. I. Sweta Prasad                                        Carnatic Vocal
7. B. Anantha Krishnan                               Carnatic Instrumental –Violin
8. Sahana S.V                                              Carnatic Instrumental - Veena           
9. Manoj Rai                                                Creative & Experimental Music
10. Nandini Rao Gujar                                   Other Major Traditions of Music (Sugam Sangeet)

 

Field of Activity: Dance -10

 

1. Mandakranta Roy                                    Bharatanatyam
2. Kadam Parikh                                          Kathak
3. Urmika Maibam                                       Manipuri
4. T. Reddi Lakshmi                                    Kuchipudi 
5. Arupa Gayatri Panda                               Odissi
6. Dimpee Baishya                                       Sattriya
7. Akshara M Das                                        Mohiniattam
8. Pradyumna Kumar Mohanta                    Chhau
9. Mingma D. Lepcha                                  Creative & Experimental Dance
10. Aparna Nangiar                                       Other Major Traditions of Dance and Dance Theatre

                                                                 (Nangiarkoothu)

Field of Activity –Theatre – 08

 

1. Beluru Raghunandan                               Playwriting
2. Ifra Mushtaq Kak                                     Direction
3. Harishankar Ravi                                     Direction
4. Harwinder Singh                                      Acting
5. Kumar Ravikant                                       Acting
6. Siddhi Upadhye                                       Acting
7. Mukunda Nath                                         Mime
8. Sangeet Shrivastava                                Allied Theatre Arts – Lighting

 

 

Field of Activity: Other Traditional/Folk/Tribal Dance/Music/Theatre and Puppetry - 11

                  

1. Lata Tiwari & Sanjay Datt Panday, (Joint Award)    Folk Music & Dance, Uttrakhand     
2. Chow Saratham Namchoom                                       Folk Music, Arunachal Pradesh
3. Sampriya Pooja                                                           Folk Music & Dance, Chhattisgarh
4. Suryawanshi Pramila Kautikrao                                 Folk Dance Lavani, Maharashtra
5. Kumar Uday Singh                                                     Folk Dance, Bihar      
6. Nasarullah EPI                                                            Folk Dance, Lakshadweep                
7. Binita Devi                                                                  Puppetry, Assam                                
8. Mahesh Aba Satarkar                                                  Folk Dance, Goa                                
9. Vasava Mukeshbhai M.                                              Folk Dance, Gujarat                           
10. Gulzar Ahmad Bhat                                                    Folk Dance, Jammu & Kashmir        
11. Moirangthem Kendra Singh                                       Nata Sankirtan, Manipur        

 

Overall Contribution/Scholarship in Performing Arts – 1

1. Anuthama Murali                                                          over all contribution in performing arts

 

Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the year 2023

 

Field of Activity: Music -10

 

1. Anuja Zokarkar                                                    Hindustani Vocal
2. Monika Soni                                                        Hindustani Vocal
3. Rishi Shankar Upadhyay                                     Hindustani Instrumental– Pakhawaj
4. Sarang Rajan Kulkarni                                         Hindustani Instrumental – Sarod 
5. S. R. Vinay Sharva                                              Carnatic Vocal
6. Ramakrishnan Murthy                                         Carnatic Vocal
7. Akshay Anantapadmanabhan                              Carnatic Instrumental –Mridangam
8. Saikhom Pinky Devi                                            Creative & Experimental Music
9. Satyavathi Mudavath                                           Creative & Experimental Music
10. Nagesh Shankarrao Adgaonkar                           Other Major Traditions of Music (Abhang)  

 

Field of Activity: Dance -10

 

1. Apoorva Jayaraman                                             Bharatanatyam
2. Meghranjani Medhi                                             Kathak
3. Kalamandalam Vipin Sankar                               Kathakali
4. Pukhrambam Reepa Devi                                    Manipuri
5. Muramalla Surendra Nadh                                  Kuchipudi 
6. Debasis Pattnaik                                                 Odissi
7. Mukunda Saikia Barbayan                                   Sattriya
8. Vidya Pradeep                                                     Mohiniattam
9. Sunita Mahato                                                      Chhau 
10. Venkateshwaran Kuppuswamy                           Music for Dance

 

Field of Activity –Theatre – 08

 

1. Priyadarshini Mishra                                            Playwriting
2. Bendang Walling                                                 Direction
3. Suvojit Bandyopadhyay                                      Direction
4. Rutuja Rajan Bagwe                                            Acting
5. Vipan Kumar                                                       Acting
6. Shruti Singh                                                         Acting
7. Mallikarjuna Rao Bachala                                   Allied Theatre Arts – Make-up
8. Puneet Dimari & Amit Khanduri (Ramleela)      Other Major Traditions Of Theatre

(Joint Award) Uttrakhand

Field of Activity: Other Traditional/Folk/Tribal Dance/Music/Theatre and Puppetry - 11

 

1. Angadi Bhaskar                                       Folk Music – Dappalu, Telangana
2. Alok Bishoyi                                            Folk Dance & Music, Odisha            
3.  M. Prakash                                              Folk Dance, Puducherry                    
4. Padma Dolker                                          Folk Music & Dance, Ladakh
5. Sukhram Pahan                                        Folk Music, Jharkhand                      
6. Yusuf Khan Mewati Jogi                         Folk Music, Rajasthan                         
7. Kalamandalam Ravisankar T S               Folk Instrument (Chenda), Kerala                 
8. Dixit Kushal Manvantray                                    Folk Dance, Gujarat                           
9. Priyanka Shakti Thakur                           Traditional Music, Maharashtra          
10. Anureet Pal Kaur                                     Folk Music, Punjab                              
11. Charu Sharma                                          Folk Music, Himachal Pradesh                                                   

Overall Contribution/Scholarship in Performing Arts – 1

1. Laxminarayan Jena                                  over all contribution in performing arts

 

 

                                वर्ष 2022 के लिए उस्ताद बिस्मिल्लाह ख़ाँ युवा पुरस्कार

कला का क्षेत्रः संगीत -10

1. समित मल्लिक                                   हिंदुस्तानी गायन
2. समर्थ जानवे                                       हिंदुस्तानी गायन
3. संगीत मिश्रा                                       हिंदुस्तानी वाद्य संगीत (सारंगी)
4. पार्थो रॉय चौधुरी                                  हिंदुस्तानी वाद्य संगीत (संतूर)
5. गायत्री                                             कर्नाटक गायन
6. आइ. श्वेता प्रसाद                                 कर्नाटक गायन
7. बी. अनंता कृष्णन                                कर्नाटक वाद्य संगीत (वायलिन)
8. सहाना एस. वी.                                  कर्नाटक वाद्य संगीत (वीणा)
9. मनोज राय                                        रचनात्मक एवं प्रायोगिक संगीत
10. नंदिनी राव गुजर                                  संगीत की अन्य प्रमुख परंपराएँ (सुगम संगीत)

 

कला का क्षेत्रः नृत्य -10

 

1. मंदाक्रांता रॉय                                     भरतनाट्यम
2. कदम पारिख                                      कथक
3. ऊर्मिका माइबम                                   मणिपुरी
4. टी. रेड्डी लक्ष्मी                                  कूचिपूड़ी
5. आरूपा गायत्री पाण्डा                            ओडिसी
6. डिम्पी बैश्य                                       सत्रिय
7. अक्षरा एम. दास                                  मोहिनीआट्टम
8. प्रद्युम्न कुमार मोहंता                              छऊ
9. मिंगमा दोर्जी लेप्चा                               रचनात्मक एवं प्रायोगिक नृत्य
10. अपर्णा नांगियार                                   नृत्य एवं नृत्य नाट्य की अन्य प्रमुख परंपराएँ (नांगियारकुथु)

कला का क्षेत्रः रंगमंच– 08

1. बेलुरु रघुनंदन                                     नाट्य लेखन
2. ईफ़रा मुश्ताक़ काक                              नाट्य निर्देशन
3. हरिशंकर रवि                                      नाट्य निर्देशन
4. हरविंदर सिंह                                      नाट्य अभिनय
5. कुमार रविकांत                                    नाट्य अभिनय
6. सिद्धि उपाध्ये                                      नाट्य अभिनय
7. मुकुंद नाथ                                         माइम (मूक अभिनय)
8. संगीत श्रीवास्तव                                  संबद्ध नाट्य कलाएँ (प्रकाश विन्यास)

 

कला का क्षेत्रः अन्य पारंपरिक/लोक/जनजातीय नृत्य/संगीत/नाट्य और पुतुल कला – 11

1. लता तिवारी एवं संजय दत्त पांडे (संयुक्त पुरस्कार), लोक संगीत एवं नृत्य, उत्तराखंड
2. चाउ साराथम नामचूम                                  लोक संगीत, अरुणाचल प्रदेश
3. समप्रिया पूजा                                           लोक संगीत एवं नृत्य, छत्तीसगढ़
4. सूर्यवंशी प्रमिला कौतिकराव                           लोक नृत्य (लावणी), महाराष्ट्र
5. कुमार उदय सिंह                                       लोक नृत्य, बिहार
6. नसरुल्ला ईपीआइ                                      लोक नृत्य, लक्षद्वीप
7. बिनीता देवी                                            पुतुल कला, असम
8. महेश आबा सतरकर                                    लोक नृत्य, गोवा
9. वसावा मुकेशभाई एम.                                 लोक नृत्य, गुजरात

10. गुलज़ार अहमद भट्ट                                     लोक नृत्य, जम्मू-कश्मीर

11. मोइरांथेम केन्द्रा सिंह                                    नट संकीर्तन, मणिपुर

 

 

 

कला का क्षेत्रः प्रदर्शन कला में समग्र योगदान/विद्वत्ता– 1

1. अनुत्तमा मुरला                                           प्रदर्शन कला में समग्र योगदान

 

वर्ष 2023 के लिए उस्ताद बिस्मिल्लाह ख़ाँ युवा पुरस्कार

 

कला का क्षेत्रः संगीत -10

1. अनुजा झोकरकर                                        हिंदुस्तानी गायन
2. मोनिका सोनी                                           हिंदुस्तानी गायन
3. ऋषि शंकर उपाध्याय                                   हिंदुस्तानी वाद्य संगीत (पखावज)
4. सारंग राजन कुलकर्णी                                  हिंदुस्तानी वाद्य संगीत (सरोद)
5. एस. आर. विनय शर्व                                  कर्नाटक गायन
6. रामकृष्ण मूर्ति                                           कर्नाटक गायन
7. अक्षय अनंतपद्मनाभन                                   कर्नाटक वाद्य संगीत (मृदंगम)
8. सैखोम पिंकी देवी                                       रचनात्मक एवं प्रायोगिक संगीत
9. सत्यवती मुडावत                                       रचनात्मक एवं प्रायोगिक संगीत
10. नागेश शंकरराव अडगांवकर                           संगीत की अन्य प्रमुख परंपराएँ (अभंग)

 

कला का क्षेत्रः नृत्य -10

1. अपूर्वा जयरमण                                         भरतनाट्यम
2. मेघरंजनी मेडी                                           कथक
3. कलामंडलम विपीन शंकर                              कथकलि
4. पुखराम्बम रीपा देवी                                    मणिपुरी
5. मुरमल्ला सुरेंद्र नाथ                                     कूचिपूड़ी
6. देबाशीष पटनायक                                      ओडिसी
7. मुकुंद सैकिया                                           सत्रिय
8. विद्या प्रदीप                                             मोहिनीआट्टम
9. सुनीता महतो                                            छऊ
10. वेंकटेश्वरन कुप्पुस्वामी                                   नृत्य संगीत

 

कला का क्षेत्रः रंगमंच– 08

1. प्रियदर्शिनी मिश्रा                                        नाट्य लेखन
2. बेन्दांग वॉलिंग                                          नाट्य निर्देशन
3. शुभोजीत बनर्जी                                         नाट्य निर्देशन
4. ऋतुजा राजन बागवे                                    नाट्य अभिनय
5. विपन कुमार                                             नाट्य अभिनय
6. श्रुति सिंह                                                नाट्य अभिनय
7. मल्लिकार्जुन राव बचाला                              सम्बद्ध नाट्य कलाएँ (रूप विन्यास)
8. पुनीत डिमरी और अमित खंडूरी

(संयुक्त पुरस्कार)                                       रंगमंच की अन्य प्रमुख परंपराएँ (रामलीला)

कला का क्षेत्रः अन्य पारंपरिक/लोक/जनजातीय नृत्य/संगीत/नाट्य और पुतुल कला - 11

1. अंगदी भास्कर                                          लोक संगीत (दप्पलु), तेलंगाना
2. आलोक बिशोई                                         लोक नृत्य एवं संगीत, ओडिशा
3. एम प्रकाश                                              लोक नृत्य, पुडुचेरी
4. पद्मा डोलकर                                            लोक संगीत और नृत्य, लद्दाख
5. सुखराम पाहन                                           लोक संगीत, झारखंड
6. यूसुफ खान मेवाती जोगी                               लोक संगीत, राजस्थान
7. कलामंडलम रवि शंकर टी. एस.                       लोक वाद्य (चेंडा), केरल
8. दीक्षित कुशल मनवंतराय                               लोक नृत्य, गुजरात
9. प्रियंका शक्ति ठाकुर                                    पारंपरिक रंगमंच, महाराष्ट्र
10. अनुरीत पाल कौर                                      लोक संगीत, पंजाब
11. चारु शर्मा                                               लोक संगीत, हिमाचल प्रदेश

 

कला का क्षेत्रः प्रदर्शन कला में समग्र योगदान/विद्वत्ता – 1

1.   लक्ष्मीनारायण जेना,                                     प्रदर्शन कला में समग्र योगदान

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