BREAKING: THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS TN AWARD ANNOUNCES ITS DATE!

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After eight years, the state government’s prestigious Kalaimamani award is revived. And it will be conferred to 201 artists. The Kalaimamani awards are given away by the Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram (literature, music and theatre) for excellence in the field of art and literature.

The winners will receive the award from Chief Minister, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, which will be held on August 13th at Kalaivanar Arangam. Though the awards are to be conferred every year, it came to a halt in 2010 and no award was given thereafter.

The following list of members will be conferred with the award:

2011

Actors - R Rajasekar, P. Rajiv alias P Rajasekar, Kutti Padmini, P Pandu

Choreographer - Puliyur Saroja

Playback Singer - B S Sasirekha

Costume Designer - P Kasi

2012

Actors - S S Senbagamuthu, T Rajashri, B R Varalakshmi

Playback Singer - Gana Ulaganathan

Director - Chitra Lakshmanan

Cinematographer - Babu alias N V Anandakrishnan

2013

Playback Singer - R Krishnaraj, Paravai Muniyamma, T Velmurugan

Actors - Prasanna, Nalini, R Pandiyarajan, Kumari Kanchana Devi, Sarada, T P Gajendran

Stunt Master - Judo K K Rathnam

2014

Actors - Ponvannan, Saravanan, Karthi

Director - Suresh Krishna

Playback Singer - Malathi

Choreographer - N A Thara

2015

Actors - Madhu Balaji, Prabhudheva

Directors - A N Pavithran

Music director - Vijay Antony

Lyricist - Yugabharathi

Cinematographer - R Rathinavelu

Playback Singer - Gana Bala

2016

Actors - Sasikumar, MS Bhaskar, Thambi Ramaiah, Soori

2017

Actors - Vijay Sethupathi, Priyamani, Singamuthu

Director - Hari

Music director - Yuvan Shankar Raja

Producer - Kalaignanam

Photography - Seshadri Nathan Sugumaran, Stills Ravi

2018

Actors - Srikanth, Santhanam

Producer - A M Rathnam

Cinematographer - Ravivarman

Playback Singer - Unni Menon

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