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

Other major traditions of Music
  • 2013-14 - Yumnam Bhumeshwor Singh
  • Nata Sankirtana Pung

Theatre

Play writing

  • 2016 - Manish Joshi
  • 2017 - Kuldeep Kunal

Theatre direction

  • 2008 - Amitesh Grover
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2022 - Kadam Parikh
  • 2023 - Meghranjani Medhi

Kuchipudi

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
  • 2022 - Dr Urmika Maibam

Mohiniattam

  • 2007 - Methil Devika
  • 2009 - Manjula B. Murthy
  • 2014 - Saji Menon
  • 2016 - Kalamandalam Rachitha Ravi
  • 2020 - Rekha Raju - Overall contribution to performing arts
2023- Vidya Pradeep

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
  • 2018 - Anjali Borbora Borthakur
  • 2019 - Prabhat Kakoti
  • 2020 - Jollymoni Saikia
  • 2021 - Deepjyoti Das
  • 2021 - Dipankar Arandhara

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

  • 2006 - Kapila Venu
  • 2008 - Purvadhanshree
  • 2014 - Sangeeth Chakyar

Music

Carnatic

Akshay Anantapadmanabhan
Flute
  • 2020 - Amith Nadig

Hindustani

Pakhawaj

Others

Folk music

Puppetry

  • 2006 - Anurupa Roy
  • 2008 - Sudarshan K.V
  • 2012 - Moumita Adak
  • 2014 - Mohammad Shameem
  • 2014 - Shreeparna Gupta
  • 2015 - Choiti Ghosh
  • 2016 - Rajeev Pulavar
  • 2016 - S Gopi
  • 2018 - Chandni Zala

Other traditional / Folk / Tribal dance / Music

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.