Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar

Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is an annual Indian award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi to outstanding artists under 40 who have demonstrated talent in the fields of music, dance and drama. The award is intended to provide national recognition to the artists in the early years of their careers. Every year up to 33 artists are selected. Award winners receive a prize of ₹25,000 (US$300). The award has been conferred since 2006.

Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar
Awarded for	Young outstanding practitioners in the fields of music, dance and drama in India
Sponsored by	Sangeet Natak Akademi
Established	2006
First awarded	2006
Last awarded	2023

Recipients

Other major traditions of Music

• 2013-14 - Yumnam Bhumeshwor Singh
• Nata Sankirtana Pung

Theatre

Play writing

• 2016 - Manish Joshi
• 2017 - Kuldeep Kunal

Theatre direction

• 2008 - Amitesh Grover
• 2012 - Nalini Nihar Nayak
• 2018 - Dr. Chavan Pramod R.

Acting

• 2018 - Namrata Sharma
• 2018 - Sunil Palwal
• 2018 - Preeti Jha Tiwari
• 2012 - Happy Ranajit

Traditional theatre

• 2016 - Jayachandra Varma Rekandar

Dance

Bharatnatyam

• 2006 - Sheejith Krishna
• 2007 - C. Lavanya Ananth
• 2008 - Gayatri Balagurunathan
• 2009 - Ragini Chander Shekar
• 2010 - Praveen Kumar
• 2011 - Meenakshi Srinivasan
• 2012 - Uma Sathya Narayanan
• 2014 - Lavanya Sankar, Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya
• 2015 - Shijith Nambiar & Parvathi Menon (Joint Award)
• 2016 - Jyotsna Jagannathan
• 2017 - Parshwanath Upadhye
• 2018 - Renjith & Vijna
• 2019 - Sudipa Ghosh
• 2020 - Mithun Shyam
• 2021 - Pavitra Krishna Bhat

Chhau

• 2011 - Dilip Chandra Mahato
• 2014 - Satish Kumar Modak, Lokanath Das

Kathakali

• 2006 - Kalamandalam Pradeep Kumar
• 2007 - Kalamandalam Shanmukhadas C
• 2008 - Vijay Kumar N
• 2010 - M. Amaljith
• 2011 - Renjini K. P.
• 2012 - Kalamandalam Harinarayanan.A
• 2014 - Kalamandalam Arun Warrier
• 2015 - Thulasi kumar Sudhakaran
• 2017 - C.M. Unnikrishnan

Kathak

• 2006 - Prashant Shah
• 2007 - Sharvari Ashok Jamenis
• 2008 - Gauri Diwakar
• 2009 - Monisa Nayak
• 2010 - Pallabi De
• 2011 - Namrata Pamnani
• 2012 - Anuj Mishra
• 2014 - Souvik Chakraborty, Sandeep Mahavir
• 2015 - Vishal Krishna, Divya Goswami Dikshit
• 2016 - Sanjukta Sinha
• 2017 - Vidha Lal
• 2018 - Durgesh Gangani
• 2021 - Rudra Shankar Mishra
• 2023 - Megh Ranjani Medhi

Kuchipudi

• 2006 - Vedantam Venkata Nagachalapathi Rao
• 2007 - Yamini Reddy
• 2008 - Arunima Kumar
• 2009 - Chinta Ravi Bala Krishna
• 2010 - Yeleswarapu Srinivasulu
• 2011 - Kuravi Venkata Subrahmanya Prasad
• 2012 - Vedantam Satya Narasimha Sastry
• 2014 - Prateeksha Kashi, Mosalikanti Jaikishore
• 2015 - Boby Chakraborty
• 2016 - Pasumarthi Mruthyunjaya
• 2017 - Bhavana Reddy
• 2021 - Avijit Das
• 2021 - Sreelakshmi Govardhanan

Manipuri

• 2006 - Sijagurumayum Nimita Devi
• 2007 - Laishram Bina Devi
• 2008 - Bimbavati Devi
• 2009 - Hanlem Indu Devi
• 2011 - Gurumayum Chandan Devi
• 2012 - Sinam Basu Singh
• 2015 - Pukhrambam Bilash Singh
• 2016 - Sanjenbam Karuna Devi
• 2017 - Adhikarimayum Radhamanbi Devi
• 2018 - Dr Manju Elangbam
• 2022 - Dr Urmika Maibam

Mohiniattam

• 2007 - Methil Devika
• 2009 - Manjula B. Murthy
• 2014 - Saji Menon
• 2016 - Kalamandalam Rachitha Ravi
• 2020 - Rekha Raju - Overall contribution to performing arts

Odissi

• 2006 - Bijayini Satpathy, Leena Mohanty
• 2007 - Madhusmita Mohanty
• 2008 - Rahul Acharya
• 2009 - Lingaraj Pradhan
• 2010 - Arushi Mudgal
• 2011 - Sonali Mohapatra
• 2012 - Yudhisthir Nayak
• 2014 - Rajashri Prahraj
• 2016 - Shashwati Garai Ghosh
• 2017 - Janhabi Behera
• 2018 - Madhulita Mohapatra

Sattriya

• 2008 - Meerananda Barthakur
• 2009 - Menaka P.P. Bora
• 2010 - Naren Barua
• 2012 - Bhabananda Barbayan
• 2014 - Mridusmita Das, Anwesa Mahanta
• 2015 - Seujpriya Borthakur
• 2016 - Usharani Baishya
• 2018 - Anjali Borbora Borthakur
• 2019 - Prabhat Kakoti
• 2020 - Jollymoni Saikia
• 2021 - Deepjyoti Das
• 2021 - Dipankar Arandhara

Contemporary / Experimental dance

• 2010 - Madhu Nataraj
• 2012 - Preethi Balachandran Athreya
• 2014 - Vikram Iyengar
• 2015 - Shilpika Bordoloi
• 2017 - Sudesh Adhana

Other major traditions of dance and theatre

• 2008 - Purvadhanshree (Vilasini Natyam)
• 2014 - Sangeeth Chakyar (Kutiyattam)

Music

Carnatic

Flute

• 2020 - Amith Nadig

Hindustani

Sitar

• 2018 - Dhruv Bedi

Vocal

• 2012 - Kumar Mardur, Bhuvanesh Komkali
• 2013 - Arshad Ali Khan
• 2016 - Koushik Aithal, Yashasvi Sirpotkar
• 2007- Sandeep Deshmukh

Tabla

• 2012 - Savani Talwalkar
• 2018 - Pt. Shubh Maharaj
• 2015 - Anubrata Chatterjee

Sarod

• 2016 - Abir hussain

Folk music

• 2017 -Sarbeswar Bhoi

Creative and experimental music

• 2009 - Anil Srinivasan

Puppetry

• 2006 - Anurupa Roy (Delhi)
• 2008 - Sudarshan K.V (Kerala)
• 2012 - Moumita Adak (West Bengal)
• 2014 - Mohammad Shameem (Delhi)
• 2014 - Shreeparna Gupta (West Bengal)
• 2015 - Choiti Ghosh (Delhi)
• 2016 - Rajeev Pulavar (Kerala)
• 2016 - S Gopi (Tamilnadu)
• 2018 - Chandni Zala (Gujarat)

Other traditional / Folk / Tribal dance / Music

• 2018 - Chandan Tiwari (Folk Music, Bihar)
• 2018 - Dinesh Kumar Jangde ( Panthi Dance, Chhattisgarh)
• 2018 - Manoj Kumar Das (Traditional Music [Khol], Assam)
• 2018 - A. Aneshori Devi (Traditional & Folk Music, Manipur)
• 2018 - P. Rajkumar (Folk Dance, Tamil Nadu)
• 2018 - Madhushree Hatial (Folk Music [Jhumar], West Bengal)
• 2018 - Ashok Kumar (Folk Music, Uttar Pradesh)

Controversies

In 2018, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, sons of Amjad Ali Khan, and both then above 35, were selected for the 2017 award in their respective fields, but refused the award stating that it should be awarded to younger musicians.