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 . The award has been conferred since 2006.
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 2026 - Amit Sanouria
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 2022 - Kadam Parikh 2023 - Meghranjani 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 2023- Vidya Pradeep
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
2006 - Kapila Venu (Kutiyattam) 2008 - Purvadhanshree (Vilasini Natyam) 2014 - Sangeeth Chakyar (Kutiyattam)
Music Carnatic
2017 - Prasanna Venkataraman 2018 - Sandeep Narayan 2019 - Palakkad Ramprasad 2021 - Vishnu Dev Namboodiri Akshay Anantapadmanabhan
Nagaswaram
2020 - V Prakash Ilaiyaraja
Violin
2017 - Trivandrum N Sampath 2019 - L Ramakrishnan
Mridangam
2017 - Kotipalli Ramesh 2019 - Satish Krishnamurthy
Ghatam
2021 - G Chandrashekar Sharma
Mandolin
2021 - Uppalapu Nagamani
Flute
2018 - J B Sruthi Sagar 2020 - Amith Nadig
Hindustani
Pakhawaj 2021 - Dyaneshwar Deshmukh 2023 - Rishi Shankar Upadhyay Sarangi 2020 - Harsh Narayan Sarod
2016 - Abir Hussain
Sitar 2018 - Dhruv Bedi 2019 - Shakir Khan
Tabla
2008 - Jay Shankar Mishra 2010 - Yogesh Gangani 2011 - Satyajit S Talwalkar 2012 - Savani Talwalkar 2015 - Anubrata Chatterjee 2016 - Yashwant Vaishnav 2017 - Rimpa Shiva 2018 - Pt.Shubh Maharaj
Vocal
2006 - Manjiri Asnare–Kelkar 2007- Sandeep Deshmukh 2009 - C.S. Sajeev 2012 - Kumar Mardur, Bhuvanesh Komkali 2013 - Arshad Ali Khan, Mallick Brothers 2016 - Koushik Aithal, Yashasvi Sirpotkar
Others 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
2017 - Dr . Ravikumar Chowdarapally (Folk Music & Art [Oggu], Telangana) 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) 2021 - Perni Rajkumar (Folk Dance [Perni], Telangana) 2023 - Angadi Bhaskar (Folk Music & Art [Dappu], Telangana)
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.
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