The legend of Telugu film industry Dr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao has received Padma Vibhushan Award from President of India Prathibha Patel in a simple function held at Rashtrapathi Bhavan on Friday evening.
Later speaking to media he said that, he has never expected Padma Vibhushan Award for him. He thanked the film industry and people of the state for blessing him to win this rare honor. He suggested the Government to honor the late artists NT.Rama Rao, SV Ranga Rao and Suryakantham with Bharata Ratna Awards.
He also suggested the Telugu film producers and directors to concentrate on story than making story for an actor. Late NTR, SVR and including himself and many others were emerged as heroes only because of the story. Hence, he said it is high time to concentrate more on the stories than on the actor’s image.
He hopes India will certainly wins the world-cup match.
Akkineni gets Padma Vibhushan and Balu Padma Bhushan
2011/1/25 8:17:33
On the occasion of the Republi Day the government of India has announced the Padma awards. Veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao has been conferred with the second highest award Padma Vibhushan. He had earlier been honoured with Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan,
Veteran singer Balasubrahmanyam has been conferred with Padma Bhushan award. The awards will be presented by President Prathiba Patil at a function to be held shortly.
The Government of India has announced the prestigious Padma Awards to 128 persons from different sections on Tuesday. Out of 128 Awards, Padma Vibhushan-13; Padma Bhushan-31; Padma Sri-84 were announced. Andhra Pradesh state has bagged 2-Padma Vibhushan; 3-Padma Bhushan; 7-Padma Sri Awards.
These awards will be given away by President of India Smt Prathibha Patel in March or April in a grand function to be held at Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
Team India Captain MS.Dhoni opined that, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is the right person who deserves Bharata Ratna award. He said “Sachin who was honored with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjun Award, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Sri and several other awards quite naturally would be the front runner for this prestigious award. Even in those remote areas of our country who have any idea about cricket certainly mentions Sachin Tendulkar ‘s name with it. This is enough to know how popular he is and how much loved by the people of the country.”
“More over, his 21 years of service to cricket and still many more years to go with it, certainly needs an appreciation like Bharata Ratna award. Sachin Tendulkar’s social service activities are another thing that needs a separate mention. His dedication, achievements in cricket and his services to society around him, places him high above the others in the country. Hence, the Centre should consider announcing Bharata Ratna award to Sachin Tendulkar with out any further delay. I think this is the right time to announce such award for such a great player.
2008/1/25 11:54:58 The names of the Padma Awardees for this year have been announced. Andhra Pradesh has bagged four Padma awards this year. Eminent singer P Suseela has been conferred with the Padma Bhushan. This is the second highest civilian award.
Noted mridangam player Yella Venkateswara Rao has been awarded the Padma Sri. Two others from the state, Gurrappa Setty and K Surya Rao have also been conferred with Padma Sri.
In a function organized by Yuva Kala Vahini at Ravindra Bharathi, Jayasudha received “Pride of Indian Cinema Award” award from the hands of Dr. CNaRe and Dr. Akkineni Nageshwara Rao. Jayasudha is felicitated with a silver crown and Gold Kankanam.
While addressing the crowd ANR said only Jayasudha can replace Jayasudha’s role in the movies. Dr. CNaRe also praised her on this occasion. With the Saree and Bindi Jayasudha looks like “padaharanala teluginti adapadachu” said actor T. L. Kantha Rao.
In a simple function held at Rashtrapathi Bhavan on Thursday, President of India Prathibha Patel has given away the Padma Awards to play back singer SP Bala Subrahmanyam, actress Tabu, Wahida Rahman and many others who were conferred few weeks ago.
2011/1/24 2:53:21 Noted Hindustani classical singer Bharata Ratna Pandit Bheemsen Jhoshi died today (Monday morning) at Sahyadri Hospitals in Pune. He was ailing with health problems since last few weeks and admitted in the hospital in the last month. The 90 year old great classical singer of the country was honored with India’s highest award ‘Bharata Ratna’ in year 2008. Previously, he also awarded Padma Sri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan.
Pandit Beemsen Jhoshi was born in Gadhag in Karnataka on February 22nd in year1922. His most popular song ‘Milesur mera tumarah’ song in Bhairavi Raaga brings him close to the hearts of every Indian. He is survived by wife, four sons and a daughter.
Balakrishna and Nayanatara's mythology movie 'Sri Rama Rajyam' is releasing on November 10th on the eve of Guru Pournima. Producer of the movie Elamanchili Sai babu has confirmed this news. Balakrishna told the media that he is quite happy to act in such a great film. The story itself is a master peace in which there is scope to perform all the nine shades of 'Navarasas.' Music Maestro Ilayaraja has given wonderful music to this movie. Besides, he composed an excellent back ground tunes to the film in synchronization with Hungarian music team. Everything went smooth as if God is blessing us from behind."
Srikanth, Mural Mohan, Roja, Saikumar, K.R Vijaya, Brahmanandam and AVS have played important roles in the film.
Producer Shivaji said "Ever since we have started this film shooting all of us witnessed all positive developments. Akkineni Nageswara Rao got Padma Vibhushan award during this film shooting. Next Balayya babu bagged Nandi award during the shooting. Remixing and graphic works will begin from September 26th. We will release the film on November 10th."
2011/1/25 5:54:54 Union Government has been announcing prestigious Padma Awards for the year 2010 to the persons from different back grounds for their contribution in their concerned fields.
So far, Centre has announced Padma Bhushan Award to veteran Bollywood actress Waheeda Rehman and music director Kayyum; Padma Sri Award to VVS Laxman and Sunil Kumar. More details of the awards can be seen in the same page after a while as information just starts flowing in.
2006/12/5 6:13:07 Padma Bhushan Dr. Chiranjeevi from the past 27 years is ruling the Tollywood. Since decades he is the Megastar of the Telugu film industry and stole the hearts of crores of Telugus, not only the youth and women but also the hearts of children in India and abroad.
Dr Chiranjeevi's films will run with minimum guarantee and are continually creating new records at the box office. Mother Teresa was his inspiration for taking up social service. Since then he started Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust that has blood banks and eye banks.
He has a great fan following and they help out in running these blood and eye banks. The blood banks are going extremely well and created a record in blood banks' history.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh recognizing the voluntary services of Chiranjeevi Blood Bank bestowed them with Best Voluntary Blood Bank award for the fourth year in a row. Allu Aravind, Chiranjeevi's brother-in-law and star producer who is also playing an active part in running these blood banks, received the award.
Very few directors of Indian origin have been able to make a mark for themselves in Hollywood and probably one of the most prominent among them is director Manoj Night Shyamalan.
M.Night Shyamalan, as he is known as in Hollywood, is the person responsible for giving us the shivers through his films like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Village.
The Indian born director who has been living in the U.S. for a long time is now all set to make a visit to his motherland after nearly a decade. And the reason for his making a visit to India is two-fold.
First and foremost the director, who has won many international awards for his work is set to receive the prestigious Padma Shri Award from the President of India. For the uninitiated, the Padma Shri is one of India's highest civilian awards after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.
Another reason that has probably got the incredibly gifted director back to his birth-land after a hiatus is the release of his forthcoming film The Happening. The Happening is a supernatural thriller which stars Mark Wahlberg and is co-produced by Twentieth Century Fox along with UTV Motion Pictures.
We spoke to Siddharth Roy Kapoor, CEO- UTV Motion Pictures to get some more details on Night's visit to India. "Yeah, we are eagerly looking forward to M Night Shyamalan coming here to India. He would be arriving in the first week of May and would be in Mumbai for a couple of days. Post that he moves to Delhi to receive the prestigious Padma Shri." says Siddharth.
Considering Night Shyamalan's films have a huge fan following in India are there any special plans in store to promote the movie? "Yes, we will be giving an opportunity for the media to interact with him considering he hasn't come to India in a while. Other than that also we are planning some promotional activities for our film The Happening which releases worldwide on June 13th. It's quite apt that this supernatural film opens on Friday the 13th", says Siddharth with a smile.
And finally, how was the experience working with an internationally acclaimed director like Night Shyamalan, "It's been a very good experience. He is a very planned-out, methodical director who knows exactly what he wants to do and it was great working with him" signs off Siddharth Roy Kapoor.
2011/10/10 1:14:04 Famous Gajal singer Padma Vibhushan Jagjeeth Singh, who was ailing with brain-hammerage since last few days, died at Lelavati Hospital in Mumbai on Monday morning. He was born on February 8th 1941. He has sung hundreds of Gajal songs in Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu and Nepali languages.
Dev Anand conferred Rashtriya Kishore Kumar Samman
2011/10/13 14:04:16
Bhopal, Oct 13 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government Thursday honoured veteran actor Dev Anand with the 14th Rastriya Kishore Kumar Samman on the occasion of the 25th death anniversary of the late singer-actor, a minister said.
An amount of Rs.2 lakh, an honour plaque and a shawl were given to the octogenerian actor for excellence in direction at his residence in Mumbai.
The evergreen hero, apart from a stellar career on screen, has produced some very memorable films, including "Johnny Mera Naam", "Guide", "Jewal Thief" and "Hare Rama Hare Krishna".
The 88-year-old has also been honoured with Padma Vibhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
A grand function was also held at Khandwa, Kishore Kumar's birthplace, in the singer's memory.
Veteran actress Anjali Devi has been chosen for the prestigious ANR award for the year 2007.The veteran actress also produced some memorable films. Akkineni Venkat announced the news at Annapoorna studios in Hyderabad on Friday. Dev Anand was chosen for the award in 205 and Shabana Azmi in 2006.
The award carries a cash prize of four lakhs and a citation. Chief minister Y S Rajashekar Reddy will present the award at a function at Ravindra Bharathi on January 13.
Dasari Padma wife of Dasari Narayana Rao passed away this morning. She breathed her last while undergoing treatment at the Yashoda hospital where she had been admitted on Tuesday.
Dasari Padma has been closely associated with the Telugu film industry but preferred to work from behind the scenes. She also produced some of the films that were directed by her husband. The film industry mourned the death of Dasari Padma.
2008/1/25 11:56:17 The Andhra University conferred a doctorate on superstar Krishna recently. He is also said to be in contention for the NTR National award.
Krishna was said to be in line to receiver another prestigious award – the Padma Sri. His name was mentioned in this regard in the media very prominently in the recent past. But much to the disappointment of his fans, his name does not figure in the list of awardees. Krishna seems to have missed the bus this year.
2011/1/25 3:41:56 Sources from New Delhi states that, most probably Centre may confer India’s highest civilian Award ‘Bharata Ratna’ to the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar before this evening (25th Jan) on the eve of Republic day tomorrow. If so, the long wait for this award by all his fans and the Cricket lovers all over the world will come to an end and surely it will be rare honor for Indian cricket. It’s also reported that, VVS Lakshman’s name is being considered for Padma Sri Award. However, the final word from the union Government is expected to come out in any moment from now onwards.
Akkineni Venkat, son of Akkineni Nageswara Rao will soon turn director. He will direct a film for film produced by Anand Arts. Jagapath Babu and Charmy is the lead pair. A title 'Nenu Puttanu' is under consideration. The film will go the floor in November.
It is a gala time for the Telugu film industry. On one hand it is celebrating the Diamond Jubilee function marking the completion of 75 years of Telugu cinema, on the other hand two prominent Telugu film personalities are getting national awards. Sources say that Dr D Ramanaidu is likely to get the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award, the highest honour for any film personality in India.
The other good news is that versatile artiste Dr Mohanbabu is about to get Padma Shri Award, one of the civilian awards to be awarded by the Union government. According to reliable information Dr Mohanbabu was selected for his services to the Telugu film industry.
A committee headed by Cabinet secretary Chaturvedi had selected over 70 persons for these Padma Awards and submitted it to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He would forward the list to President APJ Abdul Kalam, who will ratify the list. The list of winners would be announced by Thursday evening. Mohanbabu is now busy shooting for 'Yamadonga' with NT Ramarao in the lead.
