Kalakar Awards
| Kalakar Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in Cinema, Television and Entertainment from Bollywood and Tollywood |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Kolkata |
| First awarded | 1993 |
| Official website | www |
Kalakar Awards is an award ceremony held in Eastern India, attended by a host of dignitaries, stars & celebrities and draws attention from the electronic and print media.
Kalakar Awards is recognized as one of the leading awards ceremonies of Eastern India. The brand Kalakar is all about a vision and the relentless pursuit towards its success. It all started off 26 years ago when SHRI ASHOK KALANAURIA came up with a stirring vision.
Kolkata, a home to in Cinema, Television, Entertainment performances with its very own Tollywood, lacked the institution of annual awards for the most talented and outstanding performers. Finally this dream turned into reality on 1 January 1993 when the first Kalakar Awards were hosted at G. D. Birla Sabhaghar.
It honored several artistes for excellence in their work, it wrote a new chapter in the history of Award Ceremonies. This gave a chance to recognise entertainers. Annually accolades have been given to not only Tollywood Stars but also Stars from Bollywood, by awarding them a lady statuette. This, now annual, event is held at the Science City Auditorium, Kolkata.
The list of Kalakar Awardees runs into hundreds, some of the prominent stars includes:
From Bollywood : Sadhana Sargam, Nimmi, Dharmendra, Shammi Kapoor, Biswajit, Rishi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Manoj Bajpai, Farooque Shaikh, Pradeep Kumar, Asrani, A. K. Hangal, Amrish Puri, Raj Babbar, Prakash Mehra, B. R. Chopra, Ravi Chopra, Jaspal Bhatti, Vyjayantimala, Asha Parekh, Rani Mukherjee, Shabana Azmi, Neena Gupta, Ila Arun, Nandita Das, Naushad, Bappi Lahiri, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Sonu Nigam, Hariharan, Jagjit Singh and Remo Fernandes. Padmini Kolhapure, Jaya Prada, Celina Jaitley, Koena Mitra, Madhur Bhandarkar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Deepti Naval, Farida Jalal, Daler Mehndi, Zubeen Garg, Pankaj Udhas, Aadesh Srivastav, Randhir Kapoor, Shiney Ahuja, Mahesh Bhatt, Mukesh Bhatt, Emraan Hashmi, Farhan Akhtar, Prachi Desai, Sonal Chauhan, Kailash Kher, Sudesh Bhonsle, Raveena Tandon, Amrita Rao, Aftab Shivdasani, Rati Agnihotri, Boman Irani, Farah Khan, Mallika Sherawat, Gauhar Khan & Anupam Kher.
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