Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar

Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is an annual Indian award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi to outstanding artists under 40 who have demonstrated talent in the fields of music, dance and drama. The award is intended to provide national recognition to the artists in the early years of their careers. Every year up to 33 artists are selected. Award winners receive a prize of . The award has been conferred since 2006.

Recipients

Theatre

Play writing

*2016 - Manish Joshi
* 2017 - Kuldeep Kunal

Theatre direction

* 2012- Nalini Nihar Nayak

*2018 - Dr. Chavan Pramod R.

Acting

*2018 - Namrata Sharma
*2018 - Sunil Palwal
*2018 - Preeti Jha Tiwari

*2012 - Happy Ranajit

Traditional theatre

*2016 - Jayachandra Varma Rekandar

Dance

Bharatnatyam

*2006 - Sheejith Krishna
*2007 - C. Lavanya Ananth
*2008 - Gayatri Balagurunathan
*2009 - Ragini Chander Shekar
*2010 - Praveen Kumar
*2011 - Meenakshi Srinivasan
*2012 - Uma Sathya Narayanan
*2014 - Lavanya Sankar, Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya
*2015 - Shijith Nambiar & Parvathi Menon (Joint Award)
*2016 - Jyotsna Jagannathan
*2017 - Parshwanath Upadhye
*2018 - Renjith & Vijna
*2019 - Sudipa Ghosh
*2020 - Mithun Shyam
*2021 - Pavitra Krishna Bhat

Chhau

*2011 - Dilip Chandra Mahato
*2014 - Satish Kumar Modak, Lokanath Das

Kathakali

*2006 - Kalamandalam Pradeep Kumar
*2007 - Kalamandalam Shanmukhadas C
*2008 - Vijay Kumar N
*2010 - M. Amaljith
*2011 - Renjini K. P.
*2012 - Kalamandalam Harinarayanan.A
*2014 - Kalamandalam Arun Warrier
*2015 - Thulasi kumar Sudhakaran
*2017 - C.M. Unnikrishnan

Kathak

*2006 - Prashant Shah
*2007 - Sharvari Ashok Jamenis
*2008 - Gauri Diwakar
*2009 - Monisa Nayak
*2010 - Pallabi De
*2011 - Namrata Pamnani
*2012 - Anuj Mishra
*2014 - Souvik Chakraborty, Sandeep Mahavir
*2015 - Vishal Krishna, Divya Goswami Dikshit
*2016 - Sanjukta Sinha
*2017 - Vidha Lal
*2018 - Durgesh Gangani
*2021 - Rudra Shankar Mishra

Kuchipudi

*2006 - Vedantam Venkata Nagachalapathi Rao
*2007 - Yamini Reddy
*2008 - Arunima Kumar
*2009 - Chinta Ravi Balakrishna
*2010 - Yeleswarapu Srinivasulu
*2011 - Kuravi Venkata Subrahmanya Prasad
*2012 - Vedantam Satya Narasimha Sastry
*2014 - Prateeksha Kashi, Mosalikanti Jaikishore
*2015 - Boby Chakraborty
*2016 - Pasumarthi Mruthyunjaya
*2017 - Bhavana Reddy

Manipuri

*2006 - Sijagurumayum Nimita Devi
*2007 - Laishram Bina Devi
*2008 - Bimbavati Devi
*2009 - Hanlem Indu Devi
*2011 - Gurumayum Chandan Devi
*2012 - Sinam Basu Singh
*2015 - Pukhrambam Bilash Singh
*2016 - Sanjenbam Karuna Devi
*2017 - Adhikarimayum Radhamanbi Devi
*2018 - Dr Manju Elangbam

Mohiniattam

*2007 - Methil Devika
*2009 - Manjula B. Murthy
*2014 - Saji Menon
*2016 - Kalamandalam Rachitha Ravi

Odissi

*2006 - Bijayini Satpathy, Leena Mohanty
*2007 - Madhusmita Mohanty
*2008 - Rahul Acharya
*2009 - Lingaraj Pradhan
*2010 - Arushi Mudgal
*2011 - Sonali Mohapatra
*2012 - Yudhisthir Nayak
*2014 - Rajashri Prahraj
*2016 - Shashwati Garai Ghosh
*2017 - Janhabi Behera
*2018 - Madhulita Mohapatra

Sattriya

*2008 - Meerananda Barthakur
*2009 - Menaka P.P. Bora
*2010 - Naren Barua
*2012 - Bhabananda Barbayan
*2014 - Mridusmita Das, Anwesa Mahanta
*2015 - Seujpriya Borthakur
*2016 - Usharani Baishya

Contemporary / Experimental dance

*2010 - Madhu Nataraj
*2012 - Preethi Balachandran Athreya
*2014 - Vikram Iyengar
*2015 - Shilpika Bordoloi
*2017 - Sudesh Adhana

Other major traditions of dance and theatre

*2008 - Purvadhanshree (Vilasini Natyam)
*2014 - Sangeeth Chakyar (Kutiyattam)

Music

Hindustani

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* 2018 - Dhruv Bedi

= Vocal

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*2016 - Koushik Aithal, Yashasvi Sirpotkar

= Tabla

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*2015 - Anubrata Chatterjee

= Sarod

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*2016 - Abir hussain

= Folk music

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*2017 - Sarbeswar Bhoi
Creative and experimental music

* 2009 - Anil Srinivasan

Puppetry

*2006 - Anurupa Roy (Delhi)
*2008 - Sudarshan K.V (Kerala)
*2012 - Moumita Adak (West Bengal)
*2014 - Mohammad Shameem (Delhi)
*2014 - Shreeparna Gupta (West Bengal)
*2015 - Choiti Ghosh (Delhi)
*2016 - Rajeev Pulavar (Kerala)
*2016 - S Gopi (Tamilnadu)
*2018 - Chandni Zala (Gujarat)

Other traditional / Folk / Tribal dance / Music

* 2018 - Chandan Tiwari (Folk Music, Bihar)
* 2018 - Dinesh Kumar Jangde ( Panthi Dance, Chhattisgarh)
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* 2018 - A. Aneshori Devi (Traditional & Folk Music, Manipur)
* 2018 - P. Rajkumar (Folk Dance, Tamil Nadu)
* 2018 - Madhushree Hatial (Folk Music [Jhumar], West Bengal)
* 2018 - Ashok Kumar (Folk Music, Uttar Pradesh)

Controversies

In 2018, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, sons of Amjad Ali Khan, and both then above 35, were selected for the 2017 award in their respective fields, but refused the award stating that it should be awarded to younger musicians.

References

External links

* {{Official website

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