Actress Jayamma and theater artiste Jayakumar who have put in over four decades of service received the 08th annual S P Varadaraju awards in Bangalore. Friends of S P Varadaraju headed by writer-director Dr Baragur Ramachandrappa have been giving awards to well known theater artistes for the last few years and this year well known film actress Jaya fondly known as Kulli Jaya and theater artiste Jayakumar were selected for the awards.

Well known artiste Srinath came over as the chief guest and gave away the awards. 'Crazy Star' Ravichandran, Shivarajkumar, Raghavendra Rajkumar, Puneeth Rajkumar and others were also present at the occasion.