Padma Award 2025: Padma Bhushan has been awarded from the film industry with Balakrishna! 48 people in art – four from South!

Padma Award 2025 with Balakrishna Ajit in Arts: The Central Government has announced the Padma Awards for the year 2025. The government announced these awards on the occasion of 76th Republic Day. A total of 139 people have been honored with Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

48 in Arts Department

Seven people will get Padma Vibhushan Award, 19 people will get Padma Bhushan and 113 people will get Padma Shri Award. However, it is known that Balakrishna received the Padma Bhushan Award among them. A total of 48 Padma Awards have been given in cinema or art category. Four of them were selected for Padma Bhushan in the cinema region of the south.

Five from the film industry

Balakrishna of Andhra Pradesh, Kannada actor Anant Nag (Karnataka), Tamil star Hero S Ajit Kumar (Tamil Nadu), Bollywood director Shekhar Kapoor (Maharashtra), senior heroine and dancer Shobhana Chandrakumar (Tamil Nadu) have received the Padma Bhushan Award. Five people in the film industry have been awarded the Padma Bhushan, including Balayya, Ajit, Shobhana and Anant Nag of South.

Recipient of Padma Vibhushan (3) in art:

Kumudini Rajinikanth Lakhia- Gujarat

Lakshmi Narayan Subramaniam- Karnataka

Sarada Sinha (posthumously)- Bihar

Recipient of Padma Shri Award (40) in Arts:

Advaita Charan Gadnayak-Odisha

Achyut Ramchandra Palav- Maharashtra

Arijit Singh- West Bengal

Ashok Laxman Sharaf- Maharashtra

Ashwini Bhide Deshpande- Maharashtra

Barry Godfrey John- NCT Delhi

Begum Bathol- Rajasthan

Bharat Gupta- NCT Delhi

Biru Singh Chauhan – Madhya Pradesh

Bhimvwa Doddbalappa- Karnataka

Durgacharan Ranbir-Odisha

Farooq Ahmed Mir- Jammu and Kashmir

Gokul Chandra Das- West Bengal

Guruvayur Dorai – Tamil Nadu

Harchandan Singh Bhatti-Madhya Pradesh

Harjinder Singh Srinagarwale-Punjab

Hassan Raghu-Karnataka

Jaspinder Narula- Maharashtra

Madugula Nagfanishma – Andhra Pradesh

Mariyala Apparao (posthumously)- Andhra Pradesh

Jyanancharan Bathri- Assam

Of. Omankutty Amma- Kerala

Mahabir Nayak-Jharkhand

Mamta Shankar- West Bengal

Naren Gurung- Sikkim

Nirmala Devi- Bihar

P. Dachanamurthy-puducherry

Pandey Ram Mandavi-Chhattisgarh

Parmar Lavjibhai Nagjibhai-Gujarat

Radhakrishna Devasanapati-Tamilanadu

Ranendra Bhanu Mazumdar- Maharashtra

Ratan Kumar Parimo-Gujarat

Rebakant Mahant- Assam

Ricky Gyan Cage- Karnataka

Shyam Bihari Aggarwal- Uttar Pradesh

Tejendra Narayan Majumdar – West Bengal

Tiam Suryamukhi Devi- Manipur

Vasudev Kamat- Maharashtra

Asan-Tamilanadu

Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar- Karnataka

Overall, 48 Padma Awards have been selected from the 2025 nominees, five Padma Bhushan and 40 Padma have been selected from the Arts Department. Apart from this, Bollywood’s popular singer Arijit Singh from Bengal was awarded the Padma Shri.