Actress and dancer Vyjayanthimala Bali honored with Aditya Vikram Birla Award

Actress and dancer Vyjayanthimala Bali honored with Aditya Vikram Birla Award
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Mumbai. Veteran Bollywood actress, dancer and former MP Dr. Vyjayanthimala Bali has been honored with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikhar Award by Sangeet Kala Kendra. Officials gave this information here on Sunday. SKK President Rajshree Birla presented the award to 86-year-old Dr Bali at a glittering ceremony held here late on Saturday night.

In which Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Kumarmangalam Birla, Neerja Birla, Ananya Birla, Aryaman Birla and Vasavadatta Bajaj attended. The annual award was instituted in 1996 in the memory of SKK founder Late Aditya Vikram Birla to perpetuate the rich legacy in the field of performing arts. In addition, two other maestros, Sattriya dancer Dr. Anwesa Mahanta from Assam and Kathakali exponent Kalamandalam Adityan from Kerala were honored with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kalakiran Puraskar.

Praise for Aditya Vikram Birla

Recalling her husband’s work, Rajshree Birla said late industrialist Aditya Vikram Birla had an amazingly positive outlook towards life and added that performing arts like music, dance, theater could shape the contours of happiness in one’s life. helps in. He praised Dr. Bali as not only a dance legend, but unmatched at the top, a versatile actress and a multifaceted personality, who performed Indian classical dance for Pope Pius XII in Vatican City in 1940, when she was just a child. Was seven years old.

Past recipients of the award include Guru Kelu Charan Mohapatra, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Pandit Birju Maharaj and Dr. Kanak Rele. This year’s SKK Awards jury included Dr. Kanak Rele, Chitra Visveswaran, Darshana Zaveri and Jayant Kastur, and the ceremony included a dance performance by actresses Madhuri Dixit and Arijit Singh.

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