Rajesh Khanna, the first superstar of Indian cinema, has been posthomously named for the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian honour on the eve of Republic Day.

Rajesh Khanna, fondly known as Kaka in the film faternity, began his career with “Aakhri Khat” in 1966 and in a career spanning five decades, he became a superstar like no other with hits like “Aradhana”, “Do Raaste”, “Safar” and “Anand”.

Between “Aradhana” in 1969 and “Prem Kahani” in 1975, he enjoyed god-like status. The frenzy was such that women would line the road for a glimpse, chant his name, cover his car with lipstick marks and even write him letters in blood.

He passed away in July last year following prolonged illness. He was 69.

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Bollywood’s “Hawa hawaii” girl Sridevi has been named for the Padma Shri, India’s civilian award, on the eve of 64th Republic Day.

The 49-year-old, who made a grand Bollywood comeback in 2012 with a strong female-centric role in “English Vinglish”, boasts of a filmography of 265 movies. She came back after a 15-year sabbatical, and won hearts with her simple and subtle performance in the film as a homemaker struggling to learn English.

Sridevi started her journey as a child artist way back in 1967, and went on to do her first role as an adult in Tamil film “Moondru Mudichu” in 1976. It was only following scores of southern films that Sridevi found her Bollywood calling with “Sadma”.

She went on to cement her standing in Bollywood with hits like “Nagina”, “Mr. India”, “Chandni” and “ChaalBaaz” and became the reigning queen of the Hindi films in the 1980s and 1990s.

She also won critical acclaim for “Lamhe”.

Married to Hindi film producer Boney Kapoor, Sridevi has two daughters – Jhanvi and Khushi. Age has failed to take a toll on her as she looks as radiant as ever and spreads the same magic in front of the camera.

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Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore has been named for the Padma Bhushan on the eve of 64th Republic Day.

The great-grand niece of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Sharmila’s tryst with movies began when she had just entered her teens. She was 13 when she did her first Bengali film “Apur Sansar” in 1959.

However, the bigger recognition came her way when she entered the Hindi film industry with “Kashmir Ki Kali” and after that there was no looking back for her.

The 68-year-old’s body of work boasts of successes like “An Evening In Paris”, “Aradhana”, “Amar Prem”, “Mausam” and “Chupke Chupke”. She is said to be one of the foremost Bollywood ladies who flaunted a bikini on screen in “An Evening In Paris”.

Be it in glamorous roles or serious character-driven parts – Sharmila made it big in all spheres.

Her open-mindedness to roles and stories also translated to the changed content in Bollywood when she took over the reins as the censor board chief in 2004. It is during her term that experimental and bold films like “Tere Bin Laden”, “Dev D” and “Love, Sex Aur Dhokha” were released.

She has also been the face of Indian cinema at foreign film festivals, like the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival, where she served as a jury member in 2009.

Sharmila married Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, the cricket star and skipper, in 1969, and has three children – actors Saif and Soha, and designer Saba.

Saif received the Padma Shri honour in 2010.

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Well-known actor Nana Patekar, known for playing intense roles in “Salaam Bombay” and “Parinda”, has been named for Padma Shri award on the eve of 64th Republic Day.

The 62-year-old, who began his career with 1978 movie “Gaman”, carved a niche for himself in the Hindi films with 1989 film “Parinda” for which he even won a National Award. Some of his well-known films are “Krantiveer” (1994), “Agni Sakshi” (1996), “Khamoshi: The Musical”, and “Ab Tak Chappan” (2005).

After playing a villain and an encounter specialist, he tickled the funny bones of viewers with his comic act in “Welcome” (2007).

The actor also went behind the camera to make his directorial debut with “Prahaar”, in which he had cast Madhuri Dixit, the reigning star of the Hindi films, in a pivotal role.

He is equally active in Marathi films and theatre. He has won the National Award thrice.

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Veteran designer Ritu Kumar, active in fashion industry for the last 40 years, has been named for the Padma Shri award on the eve of 64th Republic Day.

The designer, who began her work with four block printers and two tables in a small village near Calcutta 40 years ago, was the first woman to introduce the ’boutique’ culture in India under the brand name ‘Ritu’.

Her growth and success can be estimated from the fact that today, her outlets have footprints in 14 cities in the country.

The 68-year-old’s designs reflect rich Indian cultural heritage and her forte lies in traditional Indian designs.

Kumar was recently in the news for designing costumes for a wedding sequence in Deepa Mehta’s forthcoming “Midnight’s Children”, based on Salman Rushdie Booker Prize winnng novel of the same name. Earlier, she designed for films like “Love Breakups Zindagi” and styled Freida Pinto for a few of her scenes in “Slumdog Millionaire”.

Her clientele includes Jemima Khan, Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and almost all the winners of the Miss India titles. She had even designed for late Princess Diana.

Her fascination for tie and dye pattern appealed to former Spice Girls singer Mel B so much that she asked Kumar to design the band’s clothes for one of their shows.

Padma Awards 2013 Winners

Padma Vibhushan 2013

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Shri Raghunath Mohapatra	Art	Orissa
2.	Shri S. Haider Raza	Art	Delhi
3.	Prof. Yash Pal	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
4.	Prof. Roddam Narasimha	Science and Engineering	Karnataka

Padma Bhushan 2013

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Dr. Ramanaidu Daggubati	Art	Andhra Pradesh
2.	Smt. Sreeramamurthy Janaki	Art	Tamil Nadu
3.	Dr. (Smt.) Kanak Rele	Art	Maharashtra
4.	Smt. Sharmila Tagore	Art	Delhi
5.	Dr. (Smt.) Saroja Vaidyanathan	Art	Delhi
6.	Shri Abdul Rashid Khan	Art	West Bengal
7.	Late Rajesh Khanna	Art	Maharashtra #
8.	Late Jaspal Singh Bhatti	Art	Punjab #
9.	Shri Shivajirao Girdhar Patil	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
10.	Dr. Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai	Science and Engineering	Delhi
11.	Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat	Science and Engineering	Delhi
12.	Dr. Ashoke Sen	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
13.	Dr. B.N. Suresh	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
14.	Prof. Satya N. Atluri	Science and Engineering	USA *
15.	Prof. Jogesh Chandra Pati	Science and Engineering	USA *
16.	Shri Ramamurthy Thyagarajan	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
17.	Shri Adi Burjor Godrej	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
18.	Dr. Nandkishore Shamrao Laud	Medicine	Maharashtra
19.	Shri Mangesh Padgaonkar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra
20.	Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	Literature & Education	USA*
21.	Shri Hemendra Singh Panwar	Civil Service	Madhya Pradesh
22.	Dr. Maharaj Kishan Bhan	Civil Service	Delhi
23.	Shri Rahul Dravid	Sports	Karnataka
24.	Ms. H. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom	Sports	Manipur

Padma Shri 2013

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Shri Gajam Anjaiah	Art	Andhra Pradesh
2.	Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias Bharati Bandhu	Art	Chhattisgarh
3.	Ms. B. Jayashree	Art	Karnataka
4.	Smt. Sridevi Kapoor	Art	Maharashtra
5.	Shri Kailash Chandra Meher	Art	Orissa
6.	Shri Brahmdeo Ram Pandit	Art	Maharashtra
7.	Shri Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar	Art	Maharashtra
8.	Shri Rekandar Nageswara Rao alias Surabhi Babji	Art	Andhra Pradesh
9.	Shri Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju	Art	Tamil Nadu
10.	Smt. Jaymala Shiledar	Art	Maharashtra
11.	Shri Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar	Art	Maharashtra
12.	Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu	Art	Kerala
13.	Shri Apurba Kishore Bir	Art	Maharashtra
14.	Shri Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan	Art	Assam
15.	Smt. Hilda Mit Lepcha	Art	Sikkim
16.	Smt. Sudha Malhotra	Art	Maharashtra
17.	Shri Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz	Art	Jammu and Kashmir
18.	Shri Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy	Art	Maharashtra
19.	Ms. Mahrukh Tarapor	Art	Maharashtra
20.	Shri Balwant Thakur	Art	Jammu & Kashmir
21.	Shri Puran Das Baul	Art	West Bengal
22.	Shri Rajendra Tikku	Art	Jammu & Kashmir
23.	Shri Pablo Bartholomew	Art	Delhi
24.	Shri S. Shakir Ali	Art	Rajasthan
25.	Sh. S.K.M Maeilanandhan	Social Work	Tamil Nadu
26.	Ms. Nileema Mishra	Social Work	Maharashtra
27.	Ms. Reema Nanavati	Social Work	Gujarat
28.	Ms. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury	Social Work	Bangladesh *
29.	Late Dr. Ram Krishan	Social Work	Uttar Pradesh #
30.	Late Manju Bharat Ram	Social Work	Delhi #
31.	Prof. Mustansir Barma	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
32.	Shri Avinash Chander	Science and Engineering	Delhi
33.	Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
34.	Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal	Science and Engineering	West Bengal
35.	Prof. Deepak B. Phatak	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
36.	Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
37.	Prof. Ajay K. Sood	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
38.	Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
39.	Dr. Manindra Agrawal	Science and Engineering	Uttar Pradesh
40.	Dr. Jayaraman Gowrishankar	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
41.	Prof. Sharad Pandurang Kale	Science and Engineering	Maharashtra
42.	Smt. Vandana Luthra	Trade and Industry	Delhi
43.	Ms. Rajshree Pathy	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
44.	Shri Hemendra Prasad Barooah	Trade and Industry	Assam
45.	Shri Milind Kamble	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
46.	Ms. Kalpana Saroj	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
47.	Dr. Sudarshan K. Aggarwal	Medicine	Delhi
48.	Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara Ram	Medicine	Andhra Pradesh
49.	Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe	Medicine	Maharashtra
50.	Dr. Taraprasad Das	Medicine	Orissa
51.	Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Devarajan	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
52.	Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani Gopal	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
53.	Dr. Pramod Kumar Julka	Medicine	Delhi
54.	Dr. Gulshan Rai Khatri	Medicine	Delhi
55.	Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani	Medicine	Delhi
56.	Dr. Amit Prabhakar Maydeo	Medicine	Maharashtra
57.	Dr. Sundaram Natarajan	Medicine	Maharashtra
58.	Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
59.	Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta	Medicine	Delhi
60.	Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam	Literature & Education	Bihar
61.	Dr. Radhika Herzberger	Literature & Education	Andhra Pradesh
62.	Shri J. Malsawma	Literature & Education	Mizoram
63.	Shri Devendra Patel	Literature & Education	Gujarat
64.	Dr. Rama Kant Shukla	Literature & Education	Delhi
65.	Prof. Akhtarul Wasey	Literature & Education	Delhi
66.	Prof. Anvita Abbi	Literature & Education	Delhi
67.	Shri Nida Fazli	Literature & Education	Madhya Pradesh
68.	Shri Surender Kumar Sharma	Literature & Education	Delhi
69.	Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh	Literature & Education	Bihar
70.	Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias Salik Lakhnawi	Literature & Education	West Bengal #
71.	Prof. Noboru Karashima	Literature & Education	Japan*
72.	Shri Christopher Pinney	Literature & Education	UK *
73.	Smt. Premlata Agrawal	Sports	Jharkhand
74.	Shri Yogeshwar Dutt	Sports	Haryana
75.	Shri Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha	Sports	Karnataka
76.	Subedar Major Vijay Kumar	Sports	Himachal Pradesh
77.	Shri Ngangom Dingko Singh	Sports	Maharashtra
78.	Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar	Sports	Rajasthan
79.	Ms. Ritu Kumar	Fashion Designing	Delhi
80.	Dr. Ravindra Singh Bisht	Archaeology	Uttar Pradesh

Padma Awards 2013 Winners Source: Rediff