Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi announces awards for 2019, 20

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi on Friday announced the names of awardees for 2019 and 2020 in as many as 16 categories.

For the years 2019 and 2020, Kabi Samrat Bhanj Sammanas go to noted theatre personality Ananta Mohapatra for direction and acting and eminent Odissi dancer Kumkum Mohanty for Odissi dance respectively.
The other awardees are as follows:
2019

1. Nabakishore Acharya (Acting)
   Mamata Mohanty (Acting)
2. Sudhakar Nanda (Playwright)
3. Harihara Mishra (Direction)
4. Prabhash Chandra Mishra (Stage art)
5. Radheshyam Sahoo Sharma (Folk music)
6. Shankar Pradhan (Folk instrument)
7. Kalucharan Sahoo (Folk dance)
8. Karna Gouda (Folk theatre)
9. Jagannath Kanhar (Instrumental music, Anaddha badya)
10. Kailash Chandra Patra ( String instrument)
11. Ratikanta Mohapatra (Odissi dance)
12. Chandramani Lenka (Odissi vocal)
13. Raghunath Sahoo (Sunanda Samman for Hindustani vocal)
14. Tansen Singh (Sugam Sangeet)
15. Binod Kumar Pasayat (Sarada Prasanna Samman for Giti Kabita)
    2020
16. Sushila Nayar (Acting)
    Bijay Kumar Pattanayak (Acting)
17. Bhaskar Chandra Mohapatra (Playwright)
18. Subodh Pattanayak (Direction)
19. Prabhat Maharana ( Stage art)
20. Navin Kanhar (Folk music)
21. Kishore Chandra Pradhan (Folk instrument)
22. Narayan Maharana (Folk dance)
23. Nirmal Chandra Rout ( Folk theatre)
24. Sarat Kumar Pani (Instrumental music,
    Anaddha badya)
25. Nityananda Mohapatra (Wind instrument, flute)
26. Gajendra Panda (Odissi dance)
27. Raghunath Mohapatra (Odissi vocal)
28. Bandita Ray (Sunanda Samman for Hindustani vocal)
29. Bidhudhendra Das (Sugam Sangeet)
30. Alekh Chandra Padhiari (Giti kabita)
    The awardees will be felicitated in a colourful event at Rabindra Mandap at 4:30 pm on August 30.