Ammannur Madhava Chakyar

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Ammanur Madhava Chekyar

Born	13 May 1917
Died	1 July 2008(2008-07-01) (aged 91) Irinjalakuda, Kerala
Occupation	Kutiyattam master

Ammannur Madhava Chakyar (13 May 1917 – 1 July 2008) was a master of Kutiyattam, the classical Sanskrit theatrical form indigenous to Kerala. He is best known for taking the performances from the temple sanctuaries where they were formerly confined and making them public events. ^[1]

Recognition[edit]

Padma Bhushan from Government of India–2003
Padmasri In 1981
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award - 1979
Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship - 1990^[2]
Kalidasa Samman
D-Lit degree from University of Kannur, Kerala
Golden Bangle From International centre of Kutiyattam, Thrippunithura
Unesco Recitation from Paris in 2001
Kerala Sangeeth Natak Akademy Award
Kerala Kalamandalam Award

References[edit]

^ Kaladharan, V. (11 May 2017). "The artistic legacy of Ammannur Madhava Chakyar". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
^ Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi official list Archived 7 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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Article in The Hindu, on the occasion of his lifetime achievement award (Virudhu).^[usurped]

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2004	Thoppil Varghese Antony Soumitra Chatterjee Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari Gulzar Sardara Singh Johl M. V. Kamath Komal Kothari Yoshirō Mori Gopi Chand Narang Govindarajan Padmanaban Poornima Arvind Pakvasa Vishnu Prabhakar N. Rajam C. H. Hanumantha Rao Thiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar T. N. Seshagopalan Bijoy Nandan Shahi Krishna Srinivas Alarmel Valli
2005	Sardar Anjum André Beteille Chandi Prasad Bhatt Tumkur Ramaiya Satishchandran Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri Yash Chopra Manna Dey Irfan Habib Yusuf Hamied Qurratulain Hyder Tarlochan Singh Kler Anil Kohli Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Mrinal Miri Hari Mohan Brijmohan Lall Munjal M. T. Vasudevan Nair Azim Premji Balraj Puri Syed Mir Qasim A. Ramachandran G. V. Iyer Ramakrishna V. S. Ramamurthy K. I. Varaprasad Reddy K. Srinath Reddy Girish Chandra Saxena Narasimaiah Seshagiri Mark Tully
2006	Jaiveer Agarwal P. S. Appu Shashi Bhushan Ganga Prasad Birla Grigory Bongard-Levin Lokesh Chandra Chiranjeevi Dinesh Nandini Dalmia Tarun Das Madhav Gadgil A. K. Hangal Devaki Jain Kamleshwar Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan Sabri Khan Ghulam Mustafa Khan Shanno Khurana Gunter Kruger P. Leela K. P. P. Nambiar Nandan Nilekani Sai Paranjpye Deepak Parekh M. V. Pylee Subramaniam Ramadorai N. S. Ramaswamy Pavani Parameswara Rao Ramakanta Rath V. Shanta Hira Lall Sibal Billy Arjan Singh Jasjit Singh Vijaypat Singhania K. G. Subramanyan K. K. Talwar Vijay Shankar Vyas Dušan Zbavitel
2007	Javed Akhtar Gabriel Chiramel Ela Gandhi Saroj Ghose V. Mohini Giri Somnath Hore Jamshed Jiji Irani Gurcharan Singh Kalkat N. Mahalingam Prithipal Singh Maini Tyeb Mehta Rajan and Sajan Mishra Rajan and Sajan Mishra Sunil Mittal Ramankutty Nair Gopaldas Neeraj Indra Nooyi Kavalam Narayana Panicker Bhikhu Parekh Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri V. S. Ramachandran Tapan Raychaudhuri S. H. Raza Jeffrey Sachs Chandra Prasad Saikia L. Z. Sailo Shiv Kumar Sarin Shriram Sharma Manju Sharma T. N. Srinivasan Osamu Suzuki K. T. Thomas
2008	Mian Bashir Ahmed Kaushik Basu Shayama Chona Jagjit Singh Chopra Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar Chandrashekhar Dasgupta Asis Datta Meghnad Desai Padma Desai Sukh Dev Nirmal Kumar Ganguly B. N. Goswamy Vasant Gowarikar Baba Kalyani K. V. Kamath Inderjit Kaur Barthakur Ravindra Kelekar Asad Ali Khan Dominique Lapierre D. R. Mehta Shiv Nadar Suresh Kumar Neotia T. K. Oommen K. Padmanabhaiah Vikram Pandit V. Ramachandran Sushil Kumar Saxena Amarnath Sehgal Jasdev Singh Shrilal Shukla P. Susheela S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan Yuli Vorontsov Sunita Williams Ji Xianlin
2009	Isher Judge Ahluwalia Inderjit Kaur Barthakur Shamshad Begum Abhinav Bindra Shanta Dhananjayan V. P. Dhananjayan Ramachandra Guha Shekhar Gupta Khalid Hameed Minoru Hara Jayakanthan Thomas Kailath Sarvagya Singh Katiyar G. Krishna R. C. Mehta A. Sreedhara Menon S. K. Misra A. M. Naik Satish Nambiar Kunwar Narayan Nagnath Naikwadi Kirit Parikh Sam Pitroda C. K. Prahalad Gurdip Singh Randhawa Brijendra Kumar Rao Bhakta B. Rath C. S. Seshadri V. Ganapati Sthapati Devendra Triguna Sarojini Varadappan
# Posthumous conferral 1954–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029

v t e Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
1954–1960	Allauddin Khan (1954) Hafiz Ali Khan (1954) Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar (1954) Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (1954) Prithviraj Kapoor (1954) Anjanibai Malpekar (1958)
1961–1980	Gopeshwar Banerjee (1962) D. Annaswami Bhagavathar (1962) Uday Shankar (1962) Papanasam Sivan (1962) Swami Prajnanananda (1963) Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar (1963) Pichu Sambamoorthi (1963) Mama Warerkar (1963) T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar (1964) C. Saraswathi Bai (1964) Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury (1964) B. R. Deodhar (1964) V. Raghavan (1964) P. V. Rajamannar (1964) Vinayakrao Patwardhan (1965) Ganesh Hari Ranade (1965) Dilipkumar Roy (1965) Jaideva Singh (1965) D. G. Vyas (1965) Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1966) E. Krishna Iyer (1966) Sombhu Mitra (1966) Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1966) Ebrahim Alkazi (1967) Rukmini Devi Arundale (1967) Musiri Subramania Iyer (1967) Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1967) P. K. Kunju Kurup (1967) Shambhu Maharaj (1967) V. Satyanarayana Sarma (1967) Adya Rangacharya (1967) Kali Charan Patnaik (1968) K. C. D. Brahaspati (1970) Kapila Vatsyayan (1970) Dilip Chandra Vedi (1970) Tarapada Chakraborty (1972) Krishnarao Phulambrikar (1972) Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma (1972) Shivaram Karanth (1973) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1974) Jnan Prakash Ghosh (1974) M. S. Subbulakshmi (1974) T. Balasaraswati (1975) Zubin Mehta (1975) Rasiklal Parikh (1975) Ravi Shankar (1975) Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar (1975) Santidev Ghosh (1976) Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer (1976) Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor (1977) Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai (1978) B. Puttaswamayya (1978) Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (1979) D. T. Joshi (1979) Sumati Mutatkar (1979) T. P. Kuppiah Pillai (1979) V. K. Narayana Menon (1980)
1981–2000	Mani Madhava Chakyar (1982) Mallikarjun Mansur (1982) M. Kirupanandawari (1984) Chandravadan Mehta (1984) Siyaram Tiwari (1984) V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar (1986) Komal Kothari (1986) S. Ramanathan (1986) Satyajit Ray (1986) Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali ‘Kumar Gandharva’ (1988) Lata Mangeshkar (1989) Utpal Dutt (1990) Ram Gopal (1990) Alain Daniélou (1991) Kelucharan Mohapatra (1991) T. S. Parthasarathy (1991) Ali Akbar Khan (1992) D. K. Pattammal (1992) Prem Lata Sharma (1992) Girish Karnad (1993) Mrinalini Sarabhai (1993) Bismillah Khan (1994) Yehudi Menuhin (1994) Maheswar Neog (1994) Vilayat Khan (1995) Ammannur Madhava Chakyar (1996) Gangubai Hangal (1996) Habib Tanvir (1996) Badal Sarkar (1997) Bhimsen Joshi (1998) Birju Maharaj (1998) K. P. Kittappa Pillai (1998) Vijay Tendulkar (1998)
2001–2021	M. Balamuralikrishna (2001) B. V. Karanth (2001) Vempati Chinna Satyam (2001) Shanno Khurana (2002) Kavalam Narayana Panicker (2002) Chandralekha (2004) Annapurna Devi (2004) Bindhyabasini Devi (2004) Ramankutty Nair (2004) Zohra Sehgal (2004) Tapas Sen (2004) Rohini Bhate (2006) T. N. Krishnan (2006) Kishan Maharaj (2006) Gursharan Singh (2006) Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra (2006) Sushil Kumar Saxena (2007) Khaled Choudhury (2008) Sitara Devi (2008) Bhupen Hazarika (2008) R. C. Mehta (2008) Kishori Amonkar (2009) Jasraj (2009) Lalgudi Jayaraman (2009) Yamini Krishnamurthy (2009) Shriram Lagoo (2009) Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi (2009) Girija Devi (2010) T. K. Murthy (2010) Nataraja Ramakrishna (2010) Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar (2010) M. Chandrasekaran (2011) Hariprasad Chaurasia (2011) Kalamandalam Gopi (2011) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2011) Heisnam Kanhailal (2011) Mukund Lath (2011) Shivkumar Sharma (2011) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (2011) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (2011) Padma Subrahmanyam (2011) Amjad Ali Khan (2011) N. Rajam (2012) Ratan Thiyam (2012) T. H. Vinayakram (2012) Mahesh Elkunchwar (2013) Kanak Rele (2013) R. Sathyanarayana (2013) Tulsidas Borkar (2014) S. R. Janakiraman (2014) Vijay Kumar Kichlu (2014) M. S. Sathyu (2014) C. V. Chandrasekhar (2015) Arvind Parikh (2016) R. Vedavalli (2016) Ram Gopal Bajaj (2016) Sunil Kothari (2016) Zakir Hussain (2018) Jatin Goswami (2018) Sonal Mansingh (2018) T. K. Kalyanasundaram (2018) Saroja Vaidyanathan (2019–2021) Sadanam Krishnankutty (2019–2021) Darshana Jhaveri (2019–2021) Chhannulal Mishra (2019–2021) A. K. C. Natarajan (2019–2021) Swapan Chaudhuri (2019–2021) Malini Rajurkar (2019–2021) T. V. Gopalakrishnan (2019–2021) Teejan Bai (2019–2021) Bharat Gupt (2019–2021)
2022–2023	Vinayak Khedekar (2022–2023) R. Visweswaran (2022–2023) Sunayana Hazarilal (2022–2023) Raja and Radha Reddy (2022–2023) Dulal Roy (2022–2023) Daya Prakash Sinha (2022–2023)

v t e Padma Award winners of Kerala
Padma Vibhushan	Adoor Gopalakrishnan E. C. George Sudarshan E. Sreedharan G. Madhavan Nair John Matthai K. N. Raj K. R. Ramanathan K. Shankar Pillai Kottayan Katankot Venugopal M. S. Valiathan N. R. Pillai O. N. V. Kurup V. K. Krishna Menon V. R. Krishna Iyer Verghese Kurien K. J. Yesudas
Padma Bhushan (Male)	A. C. N. Nambiar Ammannur Madhava Chakyar A. Ramachandran A. Sreedhara Menon C. P. Krishnan Nair Chembai E. C. George Sudarshan Eledath Thaikkattu Narayanan Mooss G. Madhavan Nair G. Sankara Kurup Gabriel Chiramel George Joseph (scientist) Guru Kunchu Kurup Jacob Chandy K. G. Subramanyan K. J. Yesudas K. M. George K. M. Mathew K. P. Kesava Menon K. P. P. Nambiar K. P. S. Menon (senior) K. R. Ramanathan K. Radhakrishnan K. Sankaran Nair K. Shankar Pillai K. Sukumaran K. T. Thomas (Justice) Kandathil Mammen Cherian Kavalam Narayana Panicker Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Kunhiraman Palat Candeth Kuzhur Narayana Marar M. S. Valiathan M. T. Vasudevan Nair M. V. Pylee Madavoor Vasudevan Nair Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai Mohanlal O. V. Vijayan P. K. Warrier Palghat Mani Iyer Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma Pothan Joseph Prem Nazir Raghavan Thirumulpad Ramankutty Nair Satish Nambiar # T. J. S. George T. K. Oommen T. N. Krishnan * T. V. Gopalakrishnan T. V. R. Shenoy Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Thayil John Cherian Thomas Kailath # Trichur V. Ramachandran V. K. Narayana Menon Vainu Bappu # Vallathol Narayana Menon Verghese Kurien
Padma Bhushan (Female)	Balamani Amma Lakshmi N. Menon P. Leela Tara Cherian #
Padma Shri (Male)	A. Marthanda Pillai A. Sivathanu Pillai Adoor Gopalakrishnan Ammannur Madhava Chakyar Antony Padiyara Ayyappa Paniker Azad Moopen B. Paul Thaliath B. Ravi Pillai Balachandra Menon C. G. Krishnadas Nair Cheril Krishna Menon E. Sreedharan Eledath Thaikkattu Neelakandan Mooss Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis G. Aravindan G. Shankar G. Vijayaraghavan Gopinath Pillai J. Hareendran Nair Jayaram Jose Chacko Periappuram K. J. Yesudas K. M. George K. M. Mammen Mappillai K. P. Haridas K. P. Udayabhanu K. Raghavan K. Ravindran Nair K. Shankar Pillai Kalamandalam Gopi Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri Kandathil Mammen Cherian Kandathil Mammen Philip Kavungal Chathunni Panicker Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair Kunhiraman Palat Candeth Kunnenkeril K. Jacob Kurian John Melamparambil Kuzhivelil Mathew Laurie Baker ! Madhavan Chandradathan M. A. Yousuf Ali M. G. Ramachandran # M. Krishnan Nair (doctor) M. Night Shyamalan # M. R. Kurup M. S. Valiathan M. Vijayan Madhu (actor) Mammen Mathew Mammootty Mani Madhava Chakyar Mathew Kalarickal Mattannoor Sankarankutty Mitraniketan Viswanathan Mohanlal N. Balakrishnan Nair N. Kesava Panikkar N. R. Madhava Menon Narayana Panicker Kochupillai Neyyattinkara Vasudevan O. N. V. Kurup P. Gopinathan P. K. Narayanan Nambiar P. K. Rajagopalan P. K. Warrier P. Parameswaran Paul Pothen Perakath Verghese Benjamin Peruvanam Kuttan Marar Philip Augustine Prem Nazir Priyadarshan Pucadyil Ittoop John Puthenpurayil Mathew Joseph R. Marthanda Varma R. K. Krishna Kumar Rajagopalan Krishnan Resul Pookutty Shaji N. Karun Sooranad Kunjan Pillai Stanley John Sunny Varkey T. K. Alex T. N. Krishnan * Thayil John Cherian Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair Thilakan Thomas Kunnunkal Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair Vellayani Arjunan Verghese Kurien Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri
Padma Shri (Female)	Achamma Mathai Anju Bobby George Dipika Pallikal # K. M. Beenamol K. S. Chithra Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Kalamandalam Satyabhama Leela Omchery Lucy Oommen M. D. Valsamma M. Leelavathy M. Subhadra Nair Mary Poonen Lukose Mary Verghese P. T. Usha Pepita Seth ! Rachel Thomas (skydiver) Shiny Abraham Shobana Sudha Varghese Sugathakumari Sukumari Thangam Philip Usha Uthup Lakshmikutty Vidya Balan *
(*)By birth - (#)By ethnicity - (!)By domicile

v t e Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Winners of Kerala
Carnatic Music - Vocal	Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar K. V. Narayanaswamy Neyyattinkara Vasudevan Trichur V. Ramachandran
Instrumental - Carnatic Violin	B. Sasikumar
Instrumental - Mridangam	Guruvayur Dorai Palghat Mani Iyer Palghat R. Raghu T. V. Gopalakrishnan
Creative and Experimental Music	K. P. Udayabhanu
Dance - Kathakali	Champakulam Pachu Pillai Chenganoor Raman Pillai Guru Gopinath Guru Kunchu Kurup Kalamandalam Gopi Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair Kalamandalam Rajan Kavungal Chathunni Panicker Kottakkal Chandrasekharan Kottakkal Sivaraman Madambi Subramanian Namboodiri Madavoor Vasudevan Nair Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri Padmanabhan Nair Ramankutty Nair Sadanam Krishnankutty Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan Vasu Pisharody Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair Vazhenkada Vijayan Kalamandalam Kuttan Asan M. P. S. Namboodiri Ramachandran Unnithan Thonnakkal Peethambaran Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri
Dance - Mohiniattam	Deepti Omchery Bhalla Gopika Varma Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Kalamandalam Leelamma Kalamandalam Satyabhama Kalamandalam Sugandhi Vimala Menon V. K. Hymavathy
Creative Dance/Choreography	Mrinalini Sarabhai
Major Traditions of Dance and Dance Theatre	Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri
Music for Dance	Kalamandalam Gangadharan
Theatre - Acting	N. N. Pillai
Theatre - Direction	Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
Theatre - Traditional / Folk / Dance / Music / Puppetry	Ammannur Madhava Chakyar Neralattu Rama Poduval Mani Madhava Chakyar P. K. Narayanan Nambiar Appukutty Poduval Mattannoor Sankarankutty
Performing Arts in the Media	K. J. Yesudas

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