The prestigious Sri Raghavendra Chitravani award for the Sixth year in succession will be held on 21st April this year. D.V. Sudheendra who was heading the Sri Raghavendra Chitravani from last 30 years is longer with us and his work will be carried out by D.V. Venkatesh.

This year one more award has been added. Journalist Mysore Harish is given award in the name of Late Smt. Sumitra Subramanyam for the young film journalist.

Chitraloka award in the name of Late K.S. Mallappa goes to Senior Still and Press photographer Ashwathnarayana

The following are the list of award winners:

1. Ragavendra Chitravani Producer award – Smt. Parvarthamma Rajkumar

2. Raghavendra Chitravani journalist award – Sri Krupa

3. Chitraloka award in the name of late K.S.Mallappa – still photographer Ashwathnarayana

4. Smt. Sumitra Subramanya Award given by Mysore Harish for young film journalist – Chetan Nadiger from Vijaya Karnataka and Vikas Negolani from Udayavani

5 . Late R.Seshadri award given by Dr. Vishnvuardhan to director – Vijaya Reddy

6 . Smt. Jaimala, H.M.Ramachandra award – Leelavathi

7 . Hunsur Krishnamurthy award given by Bhargava for Story – B.L. Venu

8 . M.S.Ramaiah Chitralaya award – Manomurthy

9 . T.N.Seetharam award for story writer – Master Kishan for Care of Footpath

10. B.Suresh award for best debut director – Guruprasad for Mata

Congratulations to all the award winners from Chitraloka team.