Chitra / Kunnakkudi get Padmashree

**eden** · 26th January 2005, 09:51 PM

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article....date=1/26/2005

Congrats!

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**Ravi_odiyur** · 27th January 2005, 07:23 AM

Great! Congrats to the awardees!!

**tmrrmt** · 27th January 2005, 11:19 AM

Congratulations to the Awardees !

just one sour note - IR misses out on the Padma Awards yet again!

RR · 27th January 2005, 11:50 AM

Another awardee - Kavitha Krishnamurthy(Subramnium).

**NagaS** · 27th January 2005, 11:58 AM

Congrats to All the padma awardees, I am happy to see chitra, R K Lakshman, Manna Dae, Azim Premji, M T Vasudevan Nair, Mammaen Mathew (Malayala Manorama Editor) and many other talented people in this list ...

No Bharath Rathna ? Thats little disappointing

Originally Posted by tmrrmt

IR misses out on the Padma Awards yet again!

Yep, same way I am surprised tendulkar is yet to get any padma award, whereas his teammates ganguly, dravid and now kumble all has padmashris

NagaS

**rajeshkrv** · 27th January 2005, 12:01 PM

PS is missed out .. similarly MSV,IR

**Ravi_odiyur** · 27th January 2005, 02:56 PM

Though we are happy to note the current list of awardees, yes, as Rajeshkrv put it, its little disappointing that other 'greats' were left out like PS, TMS, MSV, IR!!

**hehehewalrus** · 28th January 2005, 04:20 AM

Very very very very happy news!!

**Naaz** · 28th January 2005, 05:44 AM

I am certain that I can't be the only one that wonders (or is bewildered) by the criteria for these awards....
MSV, IR, PS, LRE, VJ, and a host of other stalwarts and legends are sidelined (TMS had the honour a couple of years ago? go figure!!) and KK and Chithra get a Padmashree. Not that I grudge these artistes their moment in the national limelight, and I wish them greater success....but what gives? I mean, is there any sort of rationale behind the conferring of these titles? How can one even think of these things as being based on merit, when far more prolific (and meritorious) artistes have been given the shaft - and - yet again?

I guess my list will begin to inch up only after Sujatha, Chinmayi, Vasundhara Das, Harris Jeyaraj...& Co. have been given the nod

Don't get me wrong - but you must also see the ignominy when IR, a living institution (and the one and only reason for Chithra's rise in southern film music) is glossed over, and his protege makes it to the hallowed hall of national achievement? How unconscionable is that??

**eden** · 28th January 2005, 10:14 PM

'and the one and only reason for Chithra's rise in southern film music'
Naaz, that may not be an accurate statement. This is not to take away IR's contribution in Chitra's growth (my IR bias is well-known in DF, BTW) but Chitra's career started in Malayalam field (under KJY's patronage and not IR) and she would've become popular even otherwise, and with her talents, she would've got the Padmashree honor...IMHO