Raveena Tandon Shares Feelings of Being Honoured With a Padma Shri, Owes to Her Father

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Raveena Tandon is likely one of the recipients of the coveted Padma Awards for the 12 months 2023. Here’s what she desires to say!

Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon is likely one of the recipients of the coveted Padma Awards for the 12 months 2023 introduced on the eve of Republic Day. Raveena Tandon who made a mark within the business with films similar to Mohra, Satta, and Daman within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, devoted the Padma Shri honour to her late father, movie producer Ravi Tandon. “It is always a wonderful feeling to have one’s work appreciated and honoured by one’s country. Such appreciation may, at first glance, feel like the reward that signifies the culmination of my journey, it is anything but,” mentioned the actor, who made her digital debut with the 2021 Netflix sequence Aranyak, in an announcement.

Raveena Tandon, additionally an environmentalist, added, “For this will spur me on to bigger and greater things in the field that I so love. This is a special day. My country has honoured me. I feel that I belong. Thank you, India! I owe this to my father”.

Padma Awards: Zakir Hussain, MM Keeravaani are additionally among the many recipients

Apart from Raveena, Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, RRR music composer MM Keeravaani, and singers Suman Kalyanpur and Vani Jairam had been amongst 106 recipients of the coveted Padma Awards 2023.

For 2023, the President has permitted the conferment of 106 Padma awards, together with three duo circumstances (in a duo case, the award is counted as one). The checklist contains six Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri Awards. Nineteen of the awardees are ladies and the checklist additionally contains two individuals from the class of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 7 posthumous awardees.

Published Date: January 26, 2023 12:52 PM IST