Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja Samman 2021 for Gopal Chandra Panda

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi awards for the years 2021 and 2022 was given right this moment at an occasion in Rabindra Mandap in Bhubaneswar. The highest award of the Akademi, the Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja Samman 2021 was given to Gopal Chandra Panda for Odissi music.

The artists who acquired the Akademi awards for 2021 are – Binayak Mishra and Manorama Mohanty for performing, Dr Bijay Ku Satpathy for playwriting, Navin Kumar Parida for course, Sarat Kumar Mohanty for stage craft.

Similarly, for folks music Bibhuti Bhusan Patnaik acquired the akademi award, Muralidhar Behera for folks music, Betikhai Bariha for folks dance, Gopinath Swain for folks play, Janardan Das for instrumental music, Smt. Ok Bhubaneswari for instrumental music (blowing devices), Bichitrananda Swain for Odissi dance, Dr Sangeeta Goswami for Odissi music and Mitali Chinara for Hindustan vocal music and Debashish Mohapatra for gentle songs.

Besides, the Kabichandra Kalicharan Youth expertise award for music was given to Ramachandra Behera whereas for dance Rahul Acharya, for drama Nalini Nihar Nayak was given the award. S Khirod Dora acquired the award for folks dance and people drama whereas Aswini Kumar Patel acquired for folks music and people rhythm.

Similarly, the Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja Samman 2022 was given to Jagannath Behera for ‘Pala’. The different akademi awards 2022 got to — Sankar Prasad Basu Mallick and Pradeep Kumar Panda for performing, Ashok Kumar Bohidar for play writing, Ramesh Chandra Mohanty for course, Debendra Kumar Amat for stage craft, Subash Chandra Ram for folks music, Pradeep Kumar Singh for folks rhythm, Jayakrushna Nayak for folks dance, Rasika Sahu for folks drama, Ajay Kumar Choudhury for instrumental music, Abhiram Nanda for string musical instrumental music, Dr Manoranjan Pradhan for Odissi dance, Sukanta Kumar Kundu for Odissi vocal music, Anindita Das for Hindustani vocal music, Prashanta Padhi for gentle songs.

Similarly, the Kabi Chandra Kali Charan Yuva Pratibha Samman was given to – Brajesh Panda for music, Biswajit Das for dance, Adarsha Ku Dash for drama, Jayanta Dip for folks dance and people drama, people music and people rhythm Nilachal Pan.