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.
