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Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal
	Benegal in 2010
Born	14 December 1934; Tirumalagiri, Hyderabad State, British India; (now in Telangana, India)
Died	23 December 2024 (aged 90); Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Works	Full list
Spouse	Nira Benegal
Children	1
Relatives	Guru Dutt (cousin)
Awards	1976 Padma Shri; 1991 Padma Bhushan; 2005 Dadasaheb Phalke Award; 2013 ANR National Award
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
	In office; 16 February 2006 – 15 February 2012

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Shyam Benegal (14 December 1934 – 23 December 2024) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s.^[1] He has received several accolades, including eighteen National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award. In 2005, he was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 1976, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honour of the country, and in 1991, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan,^[2] the third-highest civilian honour for his contributions in the field of arts. He died on 23 December 2024, aged 90, at Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai, where he was receiving treatment for chronic kidney disease.^[3]

Benegal was born in Hyderabad to Sridhar B. Benegal who was prominent in the field of photography.^[4] Starting his career as a copywriter, he made his first Documentary film in Gujarati, Gher Betha Ganga (Ganges at the Doorstep) in 1962. Benegal's first four feature films – Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) – made him a pioneer of the new wave film movement of that period.^[5] Benegal's "Muslim Women Trilogy" films Mammo (1994), Sardari Begum (1996), and Zubeidaa (2001) all won National Film Awards for Best Feature Film in Hindi.^[6] Benegal has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times. He was awarded the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

Early life and education

Shyam Benegal was born on 14 December 1934 in a Konkani-speaking^[7] Hindu family^[8] in Hyderabad, as Shyam Sunder Benegal.^[9] His father hailed from Karnataka.^[10] When he was twelve years old, he made his first film, on a camera given to him by his photographer father Sridhar B. Benegal. He received an M.A. in Economics from Osmania University, Hyderabad.^[11] There he established the Hyderabad Film Society.^[12]

Film director and actor Guru Dutt's maternal grandmother and Shyam's paternal grandmother were sisters, thus making Dutt and Shyam second cousins.^[13]

Shyam Benegal married Nira Benegal. They have a daughter, Pia Benegal, a costume designer.^[14]

Shyam’s brother, Som, died in 2014, and his nephews, Dev and Rahul, have also pursued careers in filmmaking.^[15]

Career

Early career

In 1959, he started working as a copywriter at a Mumbai-based advertising agency, Lintas Advertising, where he steadily rose to become the creative head. Meanwhile, Benegal made his first documentary in Gujarati, Gher Betha Ganga (Ganges at the Doorstep) in 1962. His first feature film had to wait another decade while he worked on the script.^[16]

In 1963 he had a brief stint with another advertising agency called ASP (Advertising, Sales and Promotion). During his advertising years, he directed over 900 sponsored documentaries and advertising films.^[17]

Between 1966 and 1973, Shyam taught at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and twice served as the institute's chairman: 1980–83 and 1989–92. By this time he had already started making documentaries. One of his early documentaries A Child of the Streets (1967), garnered him wide acclaim.^[18] In all, he has made over 70 documentary and short films.^[19]

He was awarded the Homi J. Bhabha Fellowship (1970–72)^[11] which allowed him to work at the Children's Television Workshop, New York, and later at Boston's WGBH-TV.^[20]

Feature films

After returning to Mumbai, he received independent financing and Ankur (The Seedling) was finally made in 1973. It was a realistic drama of economic and sexual exploitation in his home state, Telangana, and Benegal instantly shot to fame. The film introduced actors Shabana Azmi and Anant Nag and Benegal won the 1975 National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film. Shabana won the National Film Award for Best Actress.^[21]^[22]

The success that New India Cinema enjoyed in the 1970s and early 1980s could largely be attributed to Shyam Benegal's quartet: Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977). Benegal used a variety of new actors, mainly from the FTII and NSD, such as Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Amrish Puri.^[23]

In Benegal's next film, Nishant (Night's End) (1975), a teacher's wife is abducted and gang-raped by four zamindars; officialdom turns a deaf ear to the distraught husband's pleas for help. Manthan (The Churning) (1976) is a film on rural empowerment and is set against the backdrop of Gujarat's fledgling dairy industry. For the first time, over five lakh (half a million)^[24] rural farmers in Gujarat contributed ₹ 2 each and thus became the film's producers. Upon its release, truckloads of farmers came to see "their" film, making it a success at the box office.^[25] After this trilogy on rural oppression, Benegal made a biopic Bhumika (The Role) (1977), broadly based on the life of well-known Marathi stage and film actress of the 1940s, Hansa Wadkar (played by Smita Patil), who led a flamboyant and unconventional life. The main character sets out on an individual search for identity and self-fulfilment, while also grappling with exploitation by men.^[26]

In the early 1970s, Shyam made 21 film modules for Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE), sponsored by UNICEF. This allowed him to interact with children of SITE and many folk artists. Eventually he used many of these children in his feature length rendition of the classic folk tale Charandas Chor (Charandas the Thief) in 1975. He made it for the Children's Film Society, India.^[27] To quote film critic Derek Malcolm:

what Benegal has done is to paint a magnificent visual recreation of those extraordinary days and one that is also sensitive to the agonies and predicament of a talented woman whose need for security was only matched by her insistence on freedom.^[28]

The 1980s

Unlike most New Cinema filmmakers, Benegal has had private backers for many of his films and institutional backing for a few, including Manthan (Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation ) and Susman (1987) (Handloom Co-operatives). However, his films did not have proper releases. He turned to TV where he directed serials such as Yatra (1986), for the Indian Railways, and one of the biggest projects undertaken on Indian television, the 53-episode television serial Bharat Ek Khoj (1988) based on Jawaharlal Nehru's book, Discovery of India.^[9] This gave him an added advantage, as he managed to survive the collapse of the New Cinema movement in the late 1980s due to paucity of funding, with which were lost many neo-realist filmmakers. Benegal continued making films throughout the next two decades. He also served as the Director of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) from 1980 to 1986.^[11]

Following the success of these four films, Benegal was backed by star Shashi Kapoor, for whom he made Junoon (1978) and Kalyug (1981). The former was an interracial love story set amidst the turbulent period of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, while the latter was based on the Mahabharata and was not a big hit, although both won Filmfare Best Movie Awards in 1980 and 1982, respectively.^[23]^[29]^[30]

Benegal's next film Mandi (1983), was a satirical comedy about politics and prostitution, starring Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil.^[31] Later, working from his own story, based on the last days of Portuguese in Goa, in the early 1960s, Shyam explored human relationships in Trikal (1985).^[32]

Soon, Shyam Benegal stepped beyond traditional narrative films and took to biographical material to achieve greater freedom of expression.^[33] His first venture in this genre was with a documentary film based on Satyajit Ray's life, Satyajit Ray, in 1985.^[34] This was followed by works such as Sardari Begum (1996) and Zubeidaa, which was written by filmmaker and critic Khalid Mohamed.^[35]

In 1985 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.^[36]

The 1990s and beyond

The 1990s saw Shyam Benegal making a trilogy on Indian Muslim women, starting with Mammo (1994), Sardari Begum (1996) and Zubeidaa (2001). With Zubeidaa, he entered mainstream Bollywood, as it starred top Bollywood star Karishma Kapoor and boasted music by A. R. Rahman.^[37]^[38]

In 1992, he made Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (Seventh Horse of the Sun), based on a novel by Dharmavir Bharati, which won the 1993 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.^[39] In 1996 he made another film based on the book The Making of the Mahatma, based on Fatima Meer's, The Apprenticeship of a Mahatma.^[40] This turn to biographical material resulted in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero, his 2005 English language film.^[41] He criticised the Indian caste system in Samar (1999), which went on to win the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.^[42]

Benegal served as a president of the president of the Federation of Film Societies of India. He was the owner of a production company called Sahyadri Films.^[43]^[44]

He was the author of three books based on his own films: The Churning with Vijay Tendulkar (1984), which was based on Manthan; Satyajit Ray (1988), based on his biographical cinema, Satyajit Ray; and The Marketplace (1989), based on Mandi.^[45]

In 2009 he was a member of the jury at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival.^[46]

Later projects

In 2008, his film Welcome to Sajjanpur, starring Shreyas Talpade and Amrita Rao, was released to a good response.^[47] Its music was composed by Shantanu Moitra,^[48] and it was produced by Chetan Motiwalla. Shyam Benegal is slated to direct an epic musical, Chamki Chameli,^[49] inspired by Georges Bizet's classic Spanish opera Carmen. The story revolves around the eponymous Chamki, a beautiful gypsy girl with a fiery temper and is written by Shama Zaidi. The music is by A. R. Rahman and lyrics are by Javed Akhtar.^[50]

In March 2010, Benegal released the political satire Well Done Abba.^[51]

One of Benegal's last projects was a film based on the life of Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of Inayat Khan and descendant of Tipu Sultan, who served as a British spy during World War II.^[52]^[53]

Benegal made a comeback on the small screen with Samvidhaan, a 10-part mini-series revolving around the making of the Indian Constitution, to be aired on Rajya Sabha TV from 2 March 2014.^[54]

Government of Bangladesh has confirmed Benegal would direct the biopic of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman named Mujib: The Making of a Nation. The film was released in 2023.^[55]^[56]

Personal life and death

Shyam Benegal was married to Nira Benegal and had a daughter, Pia Benegal,^[57] a costume designer, who worked for many films.^[58]

Benegal died of kidney disease at Wockhardt Hospital Mumbai Central, on 23 December 2024, at the age of 90.^[59]^[60]^[61]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Year	Award Ceremony	Film	Award	References
1975	20th National Film Awards	Ankur	National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film	^[62]
1976	21st National Film Awards	Nishant	National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi	^[63]
1977	22nd National Film Awards	Manthan	National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi	^[64]
1978	23rd National Film Awards	Bhumika: The Role	National Film Award for Best Screenplay	^[65]
1979	24th National Film Awards	Junoon	National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi	^[66]
1982	27th National Film Awards	Arohan	National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi	^[66]^[65]
2005	50th National Film Awards	Overall Contribution to the Indian Cinema	Dadasaheb Phalke Award	^[67]^[68]
2005	50th National Film Awards	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero	Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration	^[69]
2009	54th National Film Awards	Well Done Abba	National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues	^[70]

Non Feature Films

1984 Best Historical Reconstruction for Nehru^[71]
1985 Best Biographical Film for Satyajit Ray^[72]

Feature Films

1986 Best Director for Trikal^[73]
1993 Best Feature Film in Hindi for Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda^[74]
1995 Best Feature Film in Hindi for Mammo^[75]
1996 Best Feature Film in English for The Making of the Mahatma^[76]
1997 Best Feature Film in Urdu for Sardari Begum^[77]
1999 Best Feature Film for Samar^[78]
1999 Best Feature Film on Family Welfare for Hari-Bhari^[79]
2001 Best Feature Film in Hindi for Zubeidaa^[80]
2005 Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration for Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero^[81]
Best Film on Other Social Issues for Well Done Abba^[82]

Filmfare Awards

1980 Best Director for Junoon^[83]

Cannes Film Festival

1976: Golden Palm: Nishant: Nominated^[84]

Berlin International Film Festival

1974 Golden Berlin Bear for Ankur: Nominated^[85]

Moscow International Film Festival

1981 Golden Prize: Kalyug^[86]
1997 Golden St. George: Sardari Begum: Nominated^[87]

Nandi Awards^[88]

B. N. Reddy National Award for contribution to Indian Cinema^[89]

Honours

1970 Homi Bhabha Fellowship (1970–72)^[90]
1976 Padma Shri^[91]
1989 Sovietland Nehru Award^[11]
1991 Padma Bhushan^[91]
2012 D. Litt. Honoris Causa of the University of Calcutta^[92]
2013 ANR National Award^[93]
2016 D. Litt. "Honoris Causa" of ITM University, Gwalior (M.P.)^[94]

Bibliography

Benegal on Ray: Satyajit Ray, a Film, by Shyam Benegal, Alaknanda Datta, Samik Banerjee. Seagull Books, 1988. ISBN 81-7046-021-2.
Shyam Benegal's the Churning (Manthan): Screenplay, by, Vijay Tendulkar, Shyam Benegal, Samik Banerjee. Seagull Books, 1984. ISBN 0-86132-070-0.
Shyam Benegal: Film-maker of the Real India, by Arjun Sengupta. Niyogi Books, 2024. ISBN 978-8119626182.

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External links

Shyam Benegal's Retrospective Abu Dhabi Sept27-30,2012 Archived 30 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine by Indian Film Society of UAE
Shyam Benegal at IMDb
'Shyam Benegal: A Life in Pictures' interview at BAFTA
Shyam Benegal on Upperstall
Awards & recognition for Shyam Benegal's films

[1] "Shyam-e-ghazal". The Tribune. 29 January 2006. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.

[Padma_Awards-2] "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[3] "RIP Shyam Benegal: President Droupadi Murmu, PM Narendra Modi, and other leaders of the nation pay their respects to the legendary filmmaker". The Times of India. 24 December 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 24 December 2024.

[4] ""In Loving Memory: Shyam Benegal"". Kovid Gupta Films. 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via YouTube.

[5] "Google". www.google.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2020.

[6] Hudson, Dale (9 October 2012). "NYUAD Hosts Shyam Benegal Retrospective". New York University Abu Dhabi. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

[7] Srinivasaraju, Sugata (5 February 2022). "Tongue In A Twist". Outlook. Retrieved 5 March 2023. Konkani has been the mother-tongue of some very famous Indians, like filmmakers Guru Dutt and Shyam Benegal .....

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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Art
1950s	Omkarnath Thakur (1955) Sthanam Narasimha Rao (1956) Sudhir Khastgir (1957) Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (1957) Debaki Bose (1958) Shambhu Maharaj (1958) Nargis (1958) Satyajit Ray (1958) Devika Rani (1958)
1960s	K. K. Hebbar (1961) Bismillah Khan (1961) Raghunath Krishna Phadke (1961) Ashok Kumar (1962) Mehboob Khan (1963) Melville de Mellow (1963) Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar (1964) Adi Pherozeshah Marzban (1964) P. C. Sorcar (1964) Guru Kunchu Kurup (1965) V. Nagayya (1965) Ravishankar Raval (1965) Mrinalini Sarabhai (1965) Sivaji Ganesan (1966) M. F. Husain (1966) Sumitra Charat Ram (1966) P. Bhanumathi (1966) Daji Bhatawadekar (1967) Vasant Desai (1967) Siddheshwari Devi (1967) Mohammed Rafi (1967) Sashadhar Mukherjee (1967) Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (1967) M. R. Acharekar (1968) Begum Akhtar (1968) Sharan Rani Backliwal (1968) Nikhil Banerjee (1968) Sunil Dutt (1968) Durga Khote (1968) Yamini Krishnamurthy (1968) Shankar–Jaikishan (1968) Ayodhya Prasad (1968) Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1968) N. T. Rama Rao (1968) Devi Lal Samar (1968) Vyjayanthimala (1968) Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1969) David Abraham Cheulkar (1969) N. S. Bendre (1969) S. D. Burman (1969) B. Saroja Devi (1969) Indrani Rahman (1969) Balraj Sahni (1969) S. N. Swamy (artist) (1969)
1970s	Sukumar Bose (1970) Prem Dhawan (1970) Ratna Fabri (1970) Gemini Ganesan (1970) Ritwik Ghatak (1970) Damayanti Joshi (1970) Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (1970) Karl Jamshed Khandalavala (1970) Madhaviah Krishnan (1970) Rajendra Kumar (1970) Pankaj Mullick (1970) Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair (1970) Relangi (1970) Gummadi (1970) Vijay Raghav Rao (1970) V. Satyanarayana Sarma (1970) Maisnam Amubi Singh (1970) K. B. Sundarambal (1970) Avinash Vyas (1970) M. Balamuralikrishna (1971) Sankho Chaudhuri (1971) Manna Dey (1971) Tripti Mitra (1971) Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair (1971) Chenganoor Raman Pillai (1971) K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai (1971) Shanta Rao (1971) Ravi (1971) Sahir Ludhianvi (1971) Siyaram Tiwari (musician) (1971) Chiranjeet Chakraborty (1972) Girija Devi (1972) Vasudeo S. Gaitonde (1972) Sunil Janah (1972) Lalgudi Jayaraman (1972) Bhimsen Joshi (1972) Mahendra Kapoor (1972) Ram Kumar (artist) (1972) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai (1972) Samta Prasad (1972) M. K. Radha (1972) Raghu Rai (1972) Krishna Reddy (1972) Waheeda Rehman (1972) Juthika Roy (1972) Suchitra Sen (1972) Gubbi Veeranna (1972) Sitara Devi (1973) T. N. Krishnan (1973) Kishan Maharaj (1973) Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy (1973) Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair (1973) Uma Sharma (1973) S. G. Thakur Singh (1973) Kaifi Azmi (1974) Pushkar Bhan (1974) Mani Madhava Chakyar (1974) Bindhyabasini Devi (1974) Naina Devi (1974) Girish Karnad (1974) Shriram Lagoo (1974) Kelucharan Mohapatra (1974) Nutan (1974) M. D. Ramanathan (1974) Som Nath Sadhu (1974) Emani Sankara Sastry (1974) Kripal Singh Shekhawat (1974) Manik Varma (1974) M. S. Gopalakrishnan (1975) Jasraj (1975) Amjad Ali Khan (1975) Gopi Krishna (1975) Sanjukta Panigrahi (1975) Basavaraj Rajguru (1975) Kalyanam Raghuramayya (1975) M. S. Sathyu (1975) K. G. Subramanyan (1975) Gitchandra Tongbra (1975) K. J. Yesudas (1975) Shyam Benegal (1976) Raghunath Mohapatra (1976) Ram Narayan (1976) K. V. Narayanaswamy (1976) R. Nagendra Rao (1976) S. Somasundaram (1976) Parveen Sultana (1976) Dhanraj Bhagat (1977) Bhupen Hazarika (1977) Sheik Chinna Moulana (1977) Alla Rakha (1977) Jehangir Sabavala (1977) Ghulam Rasool Santosh (1977)
1980s	B. V. Karanth (1981) Namagiripettai Krishnan (1981) Gambhir Singh Mura (1981) Dashrath Patel (1981) S. H. Raza (1981) Padma Subrahmanyam (1981) Allah Jilai Bai (1982) Ammannur Madhava Chakyar (1982) Jabbar Patel (1982) Virendra Prabhakar (1982) Gautam Vaghela (1982) Sirkazhi Govindarajan (1983) Gautam Vaghela (1982) Sirkazhi Govindarajan (1983) Sharafat Hussain Khan (1983) Nepal Mahata (1983) Handel Manuel (1983) Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (1983) Raghubir Singh (1983) Sobha Singh (1983) Habib Tanvir (1983) Ganga Devi (1984) Amitabh Bachchan (1984) Purushottam Das (1984) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984) Bhupen Khakhar (1984) Ben Kingsley (1984) Vinay Chandra Maudgalya (1984) Roshan Kumari (1984) Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair (1984) N. Rajam (1984) Raja and Radha Reddy (1984) Nek Chand (1984) Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya (1984) Shanti Dave (1985) Asa Singh Mastana (1985) Laxman Pai (1985) Smita Patil (1985) Palghat R. Raghu (1985) Naseeruddin Shah (1985) Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar (1986) Kanika Banerjee (1986) Subrata Mitra (1986) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (1986) Hisam-ud-din Usta (1986) K. Balachander (1987) Kumudini Lakhia (1987) Vijaya Mehta (1987) N. Ramani (1987) Aparna Sen (1987) Naresh Sohal (1987) Jitendra Abhisheki (1988) Shabana Azmi (1988) Teejan Bai (1988) Bikash Bhattacharjee (1988) Zakir Hussain (1988) Chindodi Leela (1988) Sudharani Raghupathy (1988) Sudarshan Sahoo (1988) Kudrat Singh (1988) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (1988) Jitendra Abhisheki (1988) Adyar K. Lakshman (1989) Haku Shah (1989) L. Subramaniam (1989) Ratan Thiyam (1989) Upendra Trivedi (1989)
1990s	Mohan Agashe (1990) G. Aravindan (1990) Prabha Atre (1990) Asgari Bai (1990) Gulab Bai (1990) Balwantrai Bhatt (1990) Diwaliben Bhil (1990) Raj Bisaria (1990) S. M. Ganapathy (1990) Kamal Haasan (1990) Bishamber Khanna (1990) Krishen Khanna (1990) Allu Ramalingaiah (1990) Tarun Majumdar (1990) Madhavi Mudgal (1990) Om Puri (1990) Kanak Rele (1990) Leela Samson (1990) Maharajapuram Santhanam (1990) Kapila Vatsyayan (1990) Ranbir Singh Bisht (1991) Bharat Gopy (1991) Ghulam Mustafa Khan (1991) Hafeez Ahmed Khan (1991) Shanno Khurana (1991) Pratima Barua Pandey (1991) Manu Parekh (1991) Shivkumar Sharma (1991) Gurcharan Singh (painter) (1991) Sharda Sinha (1991) Alarmel Valli (1991) Jaya Bachchan (1992) Pankaj Charan Das (1992) Biren De (1992) Srirangam Gopalaratnam (1992) Sabri Khan (1992) Sunita Kohli (1992) Madurai N. Krishnan (1992) Manoj Kumar (1992) Meera Mukherjee (1992) Asha Parekh (1992) Nataraja Ramakrishna (1992) Bhagaban Sahu (1992) Anandji Virji Shah (1992) Kalyanji Virji Shah (Kalyanji-Anandji) (1992) Sundari K. Shridharani (1992) Tapan Sinha (1992) Muthiah Sthapati (1992) K. Viswanath (1992) Chitra Visweswaran (1992) Dipali Barthakur (1998) Mammootty (1998) Kunja Bihari Meher (1998) Krishnarao Sable (1998) Zohra Sehgal (1998) K. Ibomcha Sharma (1998) U. Srinivas (1998) Javed Akhtar (1999) Saryu Doshi (1999) Sulochana Latkar (1999) Sumati Mutatkar (1999) Shobha Deepak Singh (1999) Jagmohan Sursagar (1999) Ram V. Sutar (1999)
2000s	Kanhai Chitrakar (2000) Shekhar Kapur (2000) Hema Malini (2000) Anjolie Ela Menon (2000) Shubha Mudgal (2000) Alyque Padamsee (2000) A. R. Rahman (2000) Ramanand Sagar (2000) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (2001) Aamir Raza Husain (2001) Padmaja Phenany Joglekar (2001) Mohammed Tayab Khan (2001) Sunil Kothari (2001) Nerella Venu Madhav (2001) Mohanlal (2001) Shobha Naidu (2001) D. V. S. Raju (2001) Avadhanam Sita Raman (2001) Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao (2001) Thota Tharani (2001) W. D. Amaradeva (2002) Raj Begum (2002) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (2002) Pushpa Bhuyan (2002) Rajan Devadas (2002) Darshana Jhaveri (2002) Abdul Latif Khan (2002) Mani Krishnaswami (2002) Fazal Mohammad (2002) Manorama (2002) Govind Nihalani (2002) Mani Ratnam (2002) Kiran Segal (2002) Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri (2002) Saroja Vaidyanathan (2002) T. H. Vinayakram (2002) Jahnu Barua (2003) Danny Denzongpa (2003) Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi (2003) Rita Ganguly (2003) Ranjana Gauhar (2003) Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar (2003) Rakhee Gulzar (2003) Nemi Chandra Jain (2003) O. P. Jain (2003) Aamir Khan (2003) Shafaat Ahmed Khan (2003) T. M. Soundararajan (2003) Sukumari (2003) Satish Vyas (2003) Bharathiraja (2004) Maguni Charan Das (2004) Manoranjan Das (2004) D. K. Datar (2004) Kadri Gopalnath (2004) Hariharan (singer) (2004) Purshottam Das Jalota (2004) Krishn Kanhai (2004) Heisnam Kanhailal (2004) Anupam Kher (2004) Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela (2004) Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair (2004) Sudha Ragunathan (2004) Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel (2004) Veernala Jayarama Rao (2004) Bharati Shivaji (2004) Singh Bandhu (2004) Bhajan Sopori (2004) Neyyattinkara Vasudevan (2004) Muzaffar Ali (2005) Shameem Dev Azad (2005) M. Boyer (2005) K. S. Chithra (2005) Yumlembam Gambhini Devi (2005) Shah Rukh Khan (2005) Ghulam Sadiq Khan (2005) Kavita Krishnamurti (2005) Chaturbhuj Meher (2005) Kumkum Mohanty (2005) Punaram Nishad (2005) Kedar Nath Sahoo (2005) Sougaijam Thanil Singh (2005) Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (2005) Komala Varadan (2005) Wadali Brothers (2005) Ileana Citaristi (2006) Mehmood Dhaulpuri (2006) Shree Lal Joshi (2006) Surinder Kaur (2006) Rashid Khan (musician) (2006) Vasundhara Komkali (2006) Yashodhar Mathpal (2006) Madhup Mudgal (2006) Kavungal Chathunni Panicker (2006) Shyama Charan Pati (2006) Gayatri Sankaran (2006) Prasad Sawkar (2006) Aribam Syam Sharma (2006) Shobana (2006) Kanaka Srinivasan (2006) Pankaj Udhas (2006) Mohan Babu (2007) Geeta Chandran (2007) Astad Deboo (2007) Neelamani Devi (2007) Remo Fernandes (2007) P. Gopinathan (2007) Pushpa Hans (2007) Shanti Hiranand (2007) Ananda Shankar Jayant (2007) Govardhan Kumari (2007) Sonam Tshering Lepcha (2007) Balachandra Menon (2007) Shashikala (2007) Gajendra Narayan Singh (2007) Thingbaijam Babu Singh (2007) Pannuru Sripathy (2007) Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam (2007) Waman Thakre (2007) P. R. Thilagam (2007) Tom Alter (2008) Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar (2008) Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty (2008) Meenakshi Chitharanjan (2008) Madhuri Dixit Nene (2008) Kekoo Gandhy (2008) Helen Giri Syiem (2008) Jatin Goswami (2008) Hans Raj Hans (2008) Sabitri Heisnam (2008) Gokulotsavji Maharaj (2008) P. K. Narayanan Nambiar (2008) Gennadi Mikhailovich Pechinkov (2008) Gangadhar Pradhan (2008) M. Night Shyamalan (2008) Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram (2008) Jawahar Wattal (2008) Ameena Ahmad Ahuja (2009) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (2009) Hemi Bawa (2009) Brahmanandam (2009) Devayani (dancer) (2009) Suresh Dutta (2009) Kalamandalam Gopi (2009) Niranjan Goswami (2009) Geeta Kapur (2009) Nirmal Singh Khalsa (2009) Hashmat Ullah Khan (2009) Helen (2009) S. Krishnaswamy (2009) Akshay Kumar (2009) Iravatham Mahadevan (2009) Hridaynath Mangeshkar (2009) Penaz Masani (2009) Shaoli Mitra (2009) Udit Narayan (2009) Govind Ram Nirmalkar (2009) Leela Omchery (2009) Pratapaditya Pal (2009) Aruna Sairam (2009) Mattannoor Sankarankutty (2009) Kumar Sanu (2009) Kiran Seth (2009) Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma (2009) Skendrowell Syiemlieh (2009) Thilakan (2009) K. P. Udayabhanu (2009) Vivek (actor) (2009)
2010s	Gul Bardhan (2010) Carmel Berkson (2010) Wasifuddin Dagar (2010) Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Devi (2010) Nemai Ghosh (2010) Sumitra Guha (2010) Ulhas Kashalkar (2010) Saif Ali Khan (2010) Mukund Lath (2010) Ram Dayal Munda (2010) Arundathi Nag (2010) Raghunath Panigrahi (2010) Resul Pookutty (2010) Arjun Prajapati (2010) Rajkumar Achouba Singh (2010) Shobha Raju (2010) Mayadhar Raut (2010) Rekha (2010) Ajoy Chakrabarty (2011) Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry (2011) Makar Dhwaja Darogha (2011) Mahasundari Devi (2011) Gajam Govardhana (2011) Sunayana Hazarilal (2011) S. R. Janakiraman (2011) Jayaram (2011) Kajol (2011) Shaji N. Karun (2011) Girish Kasaravalli (2011) Irrfan Khan (2011) Tabu (2011) Kalamandalam Kshemavathy (2011) Peruvanam Kuttan Marar (2011) Jivya Soma Mashe (2011) Dadi Pudumjee (2011) M. K. Saroja (2011) Khangembam Mangi Singh (2011) Prahlad Tipanya (2011) Usha Uthup (2011) Satish Alekar (2012) Satish Alekar (2012) Vanraj Bhatia (2012) Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi (2012) Gopal Prasad Dubey (2012) Gundecha Brothers (2012) Chittani Ramachandra Hegde (2012) Anup Jalota (2012) Moti Lal Kemmu (2012) Shahid Parvez (2012) Mohanlal Chaturbhuj Kumhar (2012) Sakar Khan (2012) Joy Michael (2012) Minati Mishra (2012) Na Muthuswamy (2012) R. Nagarathnamma (2012) Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri (2012) Priyadarshan (2012) Priyadarshan (2012) Vijay Sharma (2012) Laila Tyabji (2012) Yamunabai Waikar (2012) S. Shakir Ali (2013) Gajam Anjaiah (2013) Bapu (2013) Pablo Bartholomew (2013) Purna Das Baul Samrat (2013) G. C. D. Bharti (2013) Apurba Kishore Bir (2013) Ghanakanta Bora (2013) B. Jayashree (2013) Hildamit Lepcha (2013) Madhu (actor) (2013) Sudha Malhotra (2013) Kailash Chandra Meher (2013) Brahmdeo Ram Pandit (2013) Nana Patekar (2013) Rekandar Nageswara Rao (2013) Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz (2013) Jaymala Shiledar (2013) Ramesh Sippy (2013) Sridevi (2013) Suresh Talwalkar (2013) Mahrukh Tarapor (2013) Balwant Thakur (2013) Rajendra Tiku (2013) Mohammad Ali Baig (2014) Vidya Balan (2014) Musafir Ram Bhardwaj (2014) Sabitri Chatterjee (2014) Biman Bihari Das (2014) Sunil Das (2014) Elam Endira Devi (2014) Supriya Devi (2014) Vijay Ghate (2014) Nayana Apte Joshi (2014) Elam Endira Devi (2014) Supriya Devi (2014) Vijay Ghate (2014) Nayana Apte Joshi (2014) Rani Karnaa (2014) Bansi Kaul (2014) Moinuddin Khan (musician) (2014) Geeta Mahalik (2014) Paresh Maity (2014) Ram Mohan (2014) Sudarsan Pattnaik (2014) Paresh Rawal (2014) Kalamandalam Satyabhama (2014) Anuj Sharma (actor) (2014) Santosh Sivan (2014) Sooni Taraporevala (2014) Naresh Bedi (2015) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2015) Rahul Jain (2015) Ravindra Jain (2015) Prasoon Joshi (2015) A. Kanyakumari (2015) Prafulla Kar (2015) Tripti Mukherjee (2015) Neil Nongkynrih (2015) Kota Srinivasa Rao (2015) Shekhar Sen (2015) Pran Kumar Sharma (2015) Mahesh Raj Soni (2015) Malini Awasthi (2016) Madhur Bhandarkar (2016) Tulsidas Borkar (2016) Mamta Chandrakar (2016) Priyanka Chopra (2016) Ajay Devgn (2016) Bhikhudan Gadhvi (2016) Laxma Goud (2016) Saeed Jaffrey (2016) Venkatesh Kumar (2016) Naresh Chander Lal (2016) Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe (2016) Nila Madhab Panda (2016) Michael Postel (2016) Pratibha Prahlad (2016) Gulabo Sapera (2016) Prakash Chand Surana (2016) Basanti Bisht (2017) Baua Devi (2017) Jitendra Haripal (2017) Kailash Kher (2017) Sadhu Meher (2017) Aruna Mohanty (2017) T. K. Murthy (2017) Mukund Nayak (2017) Anuradha Paudwal (2017) Parassala B. Ponnammal (2017) Bharathi Vishnuvardhan (2017) Purushottam Upadhyay (2017) Doddarangegowda (2018) Manoj Joshi (actor) (2018) Pran Kishore Kaul (2018) Vijay Kichlu (2018) Prabhakar Maharana (2018) Sisir Mishra (2018) Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan (2018) Gobardhan Panika (2018) R. Sathyanarayana (2018) Bhajju Shyam (2018) Ibrahim Sutar (2018) Rudrapatnam Brothers (2018) Baba Yogendra (2018) Anup Ranjan Pandey (2019) Manoj Bajpayee (2019) Pritam Bhartwan (2019) Jyoti Bhatt (2019) Swapan Chaudhuri (2019) Dinyar Contractor (2019) Thanga Darlong (2019) Prabhu Deva (2019) Godawari Dutta (2019) Joravarsinh Jadav (2019) Fayaz Ahmad Jan (2019) K. G. Jayan (2019) Waman Kendre (2019) Kader Khan (2019) Abdul Gafur Khatri (2019) Shankar Mahadevan (2019) Narthaki Nataraj (2019) Milena Salvini (2019) Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry (2019) Rajeev Taranath (2019) Hiralal Yadav (2019) Rajeshwar Acharya (2019)
2020s	Shashadhar Acharya (2020) Indira P. P. Bora (2020) Bombay Sisters (2020) Vajira Chitrasena (2020) Puru Dadheech (2020) Madhu Mansuri Hasmukh (2020) Sarita Joshi (2020) Kangana Ranaut (2020) Ramzan Khan (2020) Manilal Nag (2020) Dalavai Chalapathi Rao (2020) Adnan Sami (2020) Suresh Wadkar (2020) V. K. Munusamy (2020) Yadla Gopalarao (2020) Dulari Devi (2021) Bombay Jayashri (2021) KC Sivasankaran (2021) Rewben Mashangva (2021) Sanjida Khatun (2021) Annavarapu Rama Swamy (2021) Nidumolu Sumathi (2021) Biren Kumar Basak (2021) Narayan Debnath (2021) Bhuri Bai (2021) Manjamma Jogathi (2021) Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan (Posthumous) (2022) Lalita Vakil (2022) H. R. Keshava Murthy (2022) Jamyang Tsering Namgyal (2022) Arjun Singh Dhurve (2022) Ram Sahay Panday (2022) Durga Bai Vyam (2022) Sulochana Chavan (2022) Sonu Nigam (2022) Lourembam Bino Devi (2022) Konsam Ibomcha Singh (2022) Shyamamani Devi (2022) Thavil Kongampattu A V Murugaiyan (2022) Chandraprakash Dwivedi (2022) Ram Dayal Sharma (2022) Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia (2022) S. Ballesh (2022) Sowcar Janaki (2022) R Muthukannammal (2022) A. K. C. Natarajan (2022) Darshanam Mogilaiah (2022) Sakini Ramachandraih (2022) Gaddam Padmaja Reddy (2022) Kamalini Asthana and Nalini Asthana (duo) (2022) Shivnath Mishra (2022) Sheesh Ram (2022) Ajita Srivastava (2022) Madhuri Barthwal (2022) Kaajee Singh (2022) Jodhaiya Bai Baiga (2023) Premjit Baria (2023) Usha Barle (2023) Hemant Chauhan (2023) Bhanubhai Chitara (2023) Hemoprova Chutia (2023) Subhadra Devi (2023) Hem Chandra Goswami (2023) Pritikana Goswami (2023) Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain (2023) Dilshad Hussain (2023) Mahipat Kavi (2023) M. M. Keeravani (2023) Parshuram Komaji Khune (2023) Maguni Charan Kuanr (2023) Domar Singh Kunvar (2023) Risingbor Kurkalang (2023) Rani Machaiah (2023) Ajay Kumar Mandavi (2023) Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa (2023) Ramesh and Shanti Parmar (2023) Krishna Patel (2023) K Kalyanasundaram Pillai (2023) Kapil Dev Prasad (2023) Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri (2023) C. V. Raju (2023) Pareshbhai Rathwa (2023) Mangala Kanti Roy (2023) K.C. Runremsangi (2023) Ritwik Sanyal (2023) Kota Satchidananda Sastry (2023) Neihunuo Sorhie (2023) Moa Subong (2023) Raveena Tandon (2023) Coomi Nariman Wadia (2023) Ghulam Muhammad Zaz (2023) Ghulam Muhammad Zaz (2023) Gaddam Sammaiah (2024) Dasari Kondappa (2024)

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