Pankaj Mullick

Indian music composer and singer (1905–1978)

Pankaj Mullick

Mullick in the film Doctor, 1940

Born| (1905-05-10)10 May 1905

Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

Died| 19 February 1978(1978-02-19) (aged 72)

Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Nationality| Indian
Occupation(s)| musical composer, singer and actor
Known for| singing, music direction, composition and acting

Pankaj Kumar Mullick (10 May 1905 – 19 February 1978) was an Indian music composer, playback singer and actor, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.[1][2][3][4]

He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1970,[5] followed by the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (India's highest award in cinema, given by the Government of India) in 1972 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.[4][6]

## Early life and training

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Pankaj Kumar Mullick was born in Kolkata to Monimohan and Monomohini Mullick. His father Monimohan had a deep interest in traditional Bengali music. He started his early training in Indian classical music under the tutelage of Durgadas Bandyopadhyaya. He studied at the Scottish Church College of the University of Calcutta.[7] An important turning point in his life came when, after finishing his studies, he came in contact with Dinendranath Tagore, who was Rabindranath Tagore's grand-nephew. This led to Pankaj Mullick's lasting interest in Rabindra Sangeet. Rabindranath Tagore, in turn, grew fond of him, and soon Mullick became known as one of the leading exponents of Tagore's songs.[1][8]

## Career

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Tagore's song Nemecche Aaj Prothom Badal became his first commercial recording, with the Kolkata-based Videophone Company in 1926, at the age of twenty one. This was the first of many albums which made him a household name in Rabindra sangeet.[1]

He started his career with the Indian Broadcasting Corporation in Calcutta in 1927, the forerunner of All India Radio (AIR), along with composer R. C. Boral, where he contributed as a music director and artist for nearly fifty years. Apart from composing songs for movies, he also composed the programme called Mahishashur Mardini. This program was based on the triumph Maa Durga over the demon Mahishashur. The programme included Chandi Path by Birendra Krishna Bhadra and agomoni songs by various singers. This programme gained such a huge popularity that till date, the recorded version of this programme is played by All India Radio on the day of Mahalaya at 4:00 am.[1][3]

He contributed in various capacities to Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Tamil language films for 38 years, starting in 1931. He worked as music director to artists like K.L. Saigal, S.D. Burman, Hemanta Mukherjee, Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhosle. He acted with famous film actors like K L Saigal, P.C. Barua and Kanan Devi. Along with Nitin Bose and his renowned sound engineer brother Mukul Bose, Mullick introduced playback singing in Indian cinema.[3]

He worked with one of the early film studios, New Theatres Calcutta for 25 years.[3]

## Legacy

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Mullick on a 2006 stamp of India

The Indian Postal Service released a postage stamp on his birth centenary in 2006 on 4 August, and on 10 May, Doordarshan, India's state television channel, telecast a special music programme to commemorate the occasion. Five decades earlier, it was he and Bharatanatyam danseuse Vyjayanthimala who were lead performers at the nationwide launch of the channel in 1959.[4]

## Filmography

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Year  | Film

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1955  | Raikamal
1954  | Chitrangada
1952  | Yatrik
1952  | Mahaprasthaner Pathey
1952  | Zalzala
1950  | Rupkatha
1949  | Manzoor
1948  | Pratibad
1947  | Ramer Sumati
1945  | Dui Purush
1944  | Meri Bahen
1943  | Kashinath
1943  | Dikshul
1942  | Meenakshi
1940  | Doctor
1940  | Nartaki
1940  | Zindagi
1939  | Badi Didi
1939  | Dushman
1939  | Kapal Kundala
1938  | Abhagin
1938  | Abhigyan
1938  | Desher Mati
1938  | Dharti Mata
1938  | Jiban Maran
1937  | Badi Bahen
1937  | Didi
1937  | Mukti
1936  | Devdas
1936  | Grihadah
1936  | Karodpati a.k.a. Millionaire with R. C. Boral
1936  | Maya
1936  | Manzil
1933  | Yahudi Ki Ladki
1931  | Chasher Meye

## Works

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* Aamar Jug Aamar Gaan (Bengali). Firma KLM Pvt Ltd., Calcutta 1980.

## See also

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* Indian film music directors

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "Upperstall Profile". Upperstall.com. 10 May 2015.
2. ^ "Rooted to the core". The Hindu. 20 January 2011.
3. ^ a b c d Biography Archived 9 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ a b c "Mullick again". The Hindu. 10 June 2005. Archived from the original on 5 January 2010.
5. ^ "Padma Awards". Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
6. ^ Recipients of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. webindia123.com
7. ^ Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 590.
8. ^ "An unequalled music". Times of India. 22 May 2010.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pankaj Mullick.

* Official website A comprehensive resource centre for research and documentation of Pankaj Mullick songs & related memorabilia
* Pankaj Mullick at IMDb

* v
* t
* e

Dadasaheb Phalke Award

1969–1980|

* Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich (1969)
* B. N. Sircar (1970)
* Prithviraj Kapoor (1971)
* Pankaj Mullick (1972)
* Ruby Myers (1973)
* B. N. Reddy (1974)
* Dhirendranath Ganguly (1975)
* Kanan Devi (1976)
* Nitin Bose (1977)
* Rai Chand Boral (1978)
* Sohrab Modi (1979)
* Paidi Jairaj (1980)

1981–2000|

* Naushad (1981)
* L. V. Prasad (1982)
* Durga Khote (1983)
* Satyajit Ray (1984)
* V. Shantaram (1985)
* B. Nagi Reddy (1986)
* Raj Kapoor (1987)
* Ashok Kumar (1988)
* Lata Mangeshkar (1989)
* Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1990)
* Bhalji Pendharkar (1991)
* Bhupen Hazarika (1992)
* Majrooh Sultanpuri (1993)
* Dilip Kumar (1994)
* Dr. Rajkumar (1995)
* Sivaji Ganesan (1996)
* Pradeep (1997)
* B. R. Chopra (1998)
* Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1999)
* Asha Bhosle (2000)

2001–2020|

* Yash Chopra (2001)
* Dev Anand (2002)
* Mrinal Sen (2003)
* Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2004)
* Shyam Benegal (2005)
* Tapan Sinha (2006)
* Manna Dey (2007)
* V. K. Murthy (2008)
* D. Ramanaidu (2009)
* K. Balachander (2010)
* Soumitra Chatterjee (2011)
* Pran (2012)
* Gulzar (2013)
* Shashi Kapoor (2014)
* Manoj Kumar (2015)
* K. Viswanath (2016)
* Vinod Khanna (2017)
* Amitabh Bachchan (2018)
* Rajinikanth (2019)
* Asha Parekh (2020)

2021–present|

* Waheeda Rehman (2021)
* Mithun Chakraborty (2022)

* v
* t
* e

Notable singers of Rabindra Sangeet

Main artist|

* Rabindranath Tagore

Other artists|

* Abdul Ahad
* Adity Mohsin
* Amiya Tagore
* Asha Bhosle
* Ashoke Taru Bandopadhyay
* Babul Supriyo
* Banani Ghosh
* Chanchal Khan
* Chinmoy Chattopadhyay
* Chitralekha Chowdhury
* Debabrata Biswas
* Dwijen Mukhopadhyay
* Gita Ghatak
* Hemant Kumar
* Fahmida Nabi
* Indrani Sen
* Indranil Sen
* Jaganmoy Mitra
* Jayati Chakraborty
* Kaderi Kibria
* Kavita Krishnamurti
* Kishore Kumar
* Kalim Sharafi
* Kabir Suman
* Kanak Das
* Kanika Bandopadhyay
* Lopamudra Mitra
* Malati Ghoshal
* Mohiuzzaman Chowdhury
* Manna Dey
* Mita Haque
* Nilima Sen
* Pankaj Mullick
* Papia Sarwar
* Purba Dam
* Rajeshwari Datta
* Rezwana Choudhury Bannya
* Ritu Guha
* Rupankar Bagchi
* Shaan
* Sagar Sen
* Sailajaranjan Majumdar
* Samina Chowdhury
* Santidev Ghosh
* Sayed Hasan Tipu
* Subinoy Roy
* Suchitra Mitra
* Sumitra Sen
* Shayan Chowdhury Arnob
* Srabani Sen
* Srikanto Acharya
* Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
* Tanjina Toma
* Tapan Chowdhury
* Tapan Mahmud

* v
* t
* e

Recipients of Padma Shri in Art

1950s|

* Omkarnath Thakur (1955)
* Sthanam Narasimha Rao (1956)
* Sudhir Khastgir (1957)
* Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu (1957)
* Debaki Bose (1958)
* Shambhu Maharaj (1958)
* Nargis (1958)
* Satyajit Ray (1958)
* Devika Rani (1958)

1960s|

* K. K. Hebbar (1961)
* Bismillah Khan (1961)
* Raghunath Krishna Phadke (1961)
* Ashok Kumar (1962)
* Mehboob Khan (1963)
* Melville de Mellow (1963)
* Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar (1964)
* Adi Pherozeshah Marzban (1964)
* P. C. Sorcar (1964)
* Guru Kunchu Kurup (1965)
* V. Nagayya (1965)
* Ravishankar Raval (1965)
* Mrinalini Sarabhai (1965)
* Sivaji Ganesan (1966)
* M. F. Husain (1966)
* Sumitra Charat Ram (1966)
* P. Bhanumathi (1966)
* Daji Bhatawadekar (1967)
* Vasant Desai (1967)
* Siddheshwari Devi (1967)
* Mohammed Rafi (1967)
* Sashadhar Mukherjee (1967)
* Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (1967)
* M. R. Acharekar (1968)
* Begum Akhtar (1968)
* Sharan Rani Backliwal (1968)
* Nikhil Banerjee (1968)
* Sunil Dutt (1968)
* Durga Khote (1968)
* Yamini Krishnamurthy (1968)
* Shankar–Jaikishan (1968)
* Ayodhya Prasad (1968)
* Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1968)
* N. T. Rama Rao (1968)
* Devi Lal Samar (1968)
* Vyjayanthimala (1968)
* Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1969)
* David Abraham Cheulkar (1969)
* N. S. Bendre (1969)
* S. D. Burman (1969)
* B. Saroja Devi (1969)
* Indrani Rahman (1969)
* Balraj Sahni (1969)
* S. N. Swamy (artist) (1969)

1970s|

* Sukumar Bose (1970)
* Prem Dhawan (1970)
* Ratna Fabri (1970)
* Gemini Ganesan (1970)
* Ritwik Ghatak (1970)
* Damayanti Joshi (1970)
* Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (1970)
* Karl Jamshed Khandalavala (1970)
* Madhaviah Krishnan (1970)
* Rajendra Kumar (1970)
* Pankaj Mullick (1970)
* Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair (1970)
* Relangi (1970)
* Gummadi (1970)
* Vijay Raghav Rao (1970)
* V. Satyanarayana Sarma (1970)
* Maisnam Amubi Singh (1970)
* K. B. Sundarambal (1970)
* Avinash Vyas (1970)
* M. Balamuralikrishna (1971)
* Sankho Chaudhuri (1971)
* Manna Dey (1971)
* Tripti Mitra (1971)
* Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair (1971)
* Chenganoor Raman Pillai (1971)
* K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai (1971)
* Shanta Rao (1971)
* Ravi (1971)
* Sahir Ludhianvi (1971)
* Siyaram Tiwari (musician) (1971)
* Chiranjeet Chakraborty (1972)
* Girija Devi (1972)
* Vasudeo S. Gaitonde (1972)
* Sunil Janah (1972)
* Lalgudi Jayaraman (1972)
* Bhimsen Joshi (1972)
* Mahendra Kapoor (1972)
* Ram Kumar (artist) (1972)
* Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972)
* Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai (1972)
* Samta Prasad (1972)
* M. K. Radha (1972)
* Raghu Rai (1972)
* Krishna Reddy (1972)
* Waheeda Rehman (1972)
* Juthika Roy (1972)
* Suchitra Sen (1972)
* Gubbi Veeranna (1972)
* Sitara Devi (1973)
* T. N. Krishnan (1973)
* Kishan Maharaj (1973)
* Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy (1973)
* Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair (1973)
* Uma Sharma (1973)
* S. G. Thakur Singh (1973)
* Kaifi Azmi (1974)
* Pushkar Bhan (1974)
* Mani Madhava Chakyar (1974)
* Bindhyabasini Devi (1974)
* Naina Devi (1974)
* Girish Karnad (1974)
* Shriram Lagoo (1974)
* Kelucharan Mohapatra (1974)
* Nutan (1974)
* M. D. Ramanathan (1974)
* Som Nath Sadhu (1974)
* Emani Sankara Sastry (1974)
* Kripal Singh Shekhawat (1974)
* Manik Varma (1974)
* M. S. Gopalakrishnan (1975)
* Jasraj (1975)
* Amjad Ali Khan (1975)
* Gopi Krishna (1975)
* Sanjukta Panigrahi (1975)
* Basavaraj Rajguru (1975)
* Kalyanam Raghuramayya (1975)
* M. S. Sathyu (1975)
* K. G. Subramanyan (1975)
* Gitchandra Tongbra (1975)
* K. J. Yesudas (1975)
* Shyam Benegal (1976)
* Raghunath Mohapatra (1976)
* Ram Narayan (1976)
* K. V. Narayanaswamy (1976)
* R. Nagendra Rao (1976)
* S. Somasundaram (1976)
* Parveen Sultana (1976)
* Dhanraj Bhagat (1977)
* Bhupen Hazarika (1977)
* Sheik Chinna Moulana (1977)
* Alla Rakha (1977)
* Jehangir Sabavala (1977)
* Ghulam Rasool Santosh (1977)

1980s|

* B. V. Karanth (1981)
* Namagiripettai Krishnan (1981)
* Gambhir Singh Mura (1981)
* Dashrath Patel (1981)
* S. H. Raza (1981)
* Padma Subrahmanyam (1981)
* Allah Jilai Bai (1982)
* Ammannur Madhava Chakyar (1982)
* Jabbar Patel (1982)
* Virendra Prabhakar (1982)
* Gautam Vaghela (1982)
* Sirkazhi Govindarajan (1983)
* Gautam Vaghela (1982)
* Sirkazhi Govindarajan (1983)
* Sharafat Hussain Khan (1983)
* Nepal Mahata (1983)
* Handel Manuel (1983)
* Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (1983)
* Raghubir Singh (1983)
* Sobha Singh (1983)
* Habib Tanvir (1983)
* Ganga Devi (1984)
* Amitabh Bachchan (1984)
* Purushottam Das (1984)
* Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984)
* Bhupen Khakhar (1984)
* Ben Kingsley (1984)
* Vinay Chandra Maudgalya (1984)
* Roshan Kumari (1984)
* Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair (1984)
* N. Rajam (1984)
* Raja and Radha Reddy (1984)
* Nek Chand (1984)
* Ram Gopal Vijayvargiya (1984)
* Shanti Dave (1985)
* Asa Singh Mastana (1985)
* Laxman Pai (1985)
* Smita Patil (1985)
* Palghat R. Raghu (1985)
* Naseeruddin Shah (1985)
* Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar (1986)
* Kanika Banerjee (1986)
* Subrata Mitra (1986)
* Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (1986)
* Hisam-ud-din Usta (1986)
* K. Balachander (1987)
* Kumudini Lakhia (1987)
* Vijaya Mehta (1987)
* N. Ramani (1987)
* Aparna Sen (1987)
* Naresh Sohal (1987)
* Jitendra Abhisheki (1988)
* Shabana Azmi (1988)
* Teejan Bai (1988)
* Bikash Bhattacharjee (1988)
* Zakir Hussain (1988)
* Chindodi Leela (1988)
* Sudharani Raghupathy (1988)
* Sudarshan Sahoo (1988)
* Kudrat Singh (1988)
* Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (1988)
* Jitendra Abhisheki (1988)
* Adyar K. Lakshman (1989)
* Haku Shah (1989)
* L. Subramaniam (1989)
* Ratan Thiyam (1989)
* Upendra Trivedi (1989)

1990s|

* Mohan Agashe (1990)
* G. Aravindan (1990)
* Prabha Atre (1990)
* Asgari Bai (1990)
* Gulab Bai (1990)
* Balwantrai Bhatt (1990)
* Diwaliben Bhil (1990)
* Raj Bisaria (1990)
* S. M. Ganapathy (1990)
* Kamal Haasan (1990)
* Bishamber Khanna (1990)
* Krishen Khanna (1990)
* Allu Ramalingaiah (1990)
* Tarun Majumdar (1990)
* Madhavi Mudgal (1990)
* Om Puri (1990)
* Kanak Rele (1990)
* Leela Samson (1990)
* Maharajapuram Santhanam (1990)
* Kapila Vatsyayan (1990)
* Ranbir Singh Bisht (1991)
* Bharat Gopy (1991)
* Ghulam Mustafa Khan (1991)
* Hafeez Ahmed Khan (1991)
* Shanno Khurana (1991)
* Pratima Barua Pandey (1991)
* Manu Parekh (1991)
* Shivkumar Sharma (1991)
* Gurcharan Singh (painter) (1991)
* Sharda Sinha (1991)
* Alarmel Valli (1991)
* Jaya Bachchan (1992)
* Pankaj Charan Das (1992)
* Biren De (1992)
* Srirangam Gopalaratnam (1992)
* Sabri Khan (1992)
* Sunita Kohli (1992)
* Madurai N. Krishnan (1992)
* Manoj Kumar (1992)
* Meera Mukherjee (1992)
* Asha Parekh (1992)
* Nataraja Ramakrishna (1992)
* Bhagaban Sahu (1992)
* Anandji Virji Shah (1992)
* Kalyanji Virji Shah (Kalyanji-Anandji) (1992)
* Sundari K. Shridharani (1992)
* Tapan Sinha (1992)
* Muthiah Sthapati (1992)
* K. Viswanath (1992)
* Chitra Visweswaran (1992)
* Dipali Barthakur (1998)
* Mammootty (1998)
* Kunja Bihari Meher (1998)
* Krishnarao Sable (1998)
* Zohra Sehgal (1998)
* K. Ibomcha Sharma (1998)
* U. Srinivas (1998)
* Javed Akhtar (1999)
* Saryu Doshi (1999)
* Sulochana Latkar (1999)
* Sumati Mutatkar (1999)
* Shobha Deepak Singh (1999)
* Jagmohan Sursagar (1999)
* Ram V. Sutar (1999)

2000s|

* Kanhai Chitrakar (2000)
* Shekhar Kapur (2000)
* Hema Malini (2000)
* Anjolie Ela Menon (2000)
* Shubha Mudgal (2000)
* Alyque Padamsee (2000)
* A. R. Rahman (2000)
* Ramanand Sagar (2000)
* S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (2001)
* Aamir Raza Husain (2001)
* Padmaja Phenany Joglekar (2001)
* Mohammed Tayab Khan (2001)
* Sunil Kothari (2001)
* Nerella Venu Madhav (2001)
* Mohanlal (2001)
* Shobha Naidu (2001)
* D. V. S. Raju (2001)
* Avadhanam Sita Raman (2001)
* Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao (2001)
* Thota Tharani (2001)
* W. D. Amaradeva (2002)
* Raj Begum (2002)
* Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (2002)
* Pushpa Bhuyan (2002)
* Rajan Devadas (2002)
* Darshana Jhaveri (2002)
* Abdul Latif Khan (2002)
* Mani Krishnaswami (2002)
* Fazal Mohammad (2002)
* Manorama (2002)
* Govind Nihalani (2002)
* Mani Ratnam (2002)
* Kiran Segal (2002)
* Navaneetham Padmanabha Seshadri (2002)
* Saroja Vaidyanathan (2002)
* T. H. Vinayakram (2002)
* Jahnu Barua (2003)
* Danny Denzongpa (2003)
* Kshetrimayum Ongbi Thouranisabi Devi (2003)
* Rita Ganguly (2003)
* Ranjana Gauhar (2003)
* Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar (2003)
* Rakhee Gulzar (2003)
* Nemi Chandra Jain (2003)
* O. P. Jain (2003)
* Aamir Khan (2003)
* Shafaat Ahmed Khan (2003)
* T. M. Soundararajan (2003)
* Sukumari (2003)
* Satish Vyas (2003)
* Bharathiraja (2004)
* Maguni Charan Das (2004)
* Manoranjan Das (2004)
* D. K. Datar (2004)
* Kadri Gopalnath (2004)
* Hariharan (singer) (2004)
* Purshottam Das Jalota (2004)
* Krishn Kanhai (2004)
* Heisnam Kanhailal (2004)
* Anupam Kher (2004)
* Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela (2004)
* Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair (2004)
* Sudha Ragunathan (2004)
* Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel (2004)
* Veernala Jayarama Rao (2004)
* Bharati Shivaji (2004)
* Singh Bandhu (2004)
* Bhajan Sopori (2004)
* Neyyattinkara Vasudevan (2004)
* Muzaffar Ali (2005)
* Shameem Dev Azad (2005)
* M. Boyer (2005)
* K. S. Chithra (2005)
* Yumlembam Gambhini Devi (2005)
* Shah Rukh Khan (2005)
* Ghulam Sadiq Khan (2005)
* Kavita Krishnamurti (2005)
* Chaturbhuj Meher (2005)
* Kumkum Mohanty (2005)
* Punaram Nishad (2005)
* Kedar Nath Sahoo (2005)
* Sougaijam Thanil Singh (2005)
* Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (2005)
* Komala Varadan (2005)
* Puranchand Wadali (2005)
* Ileana Citaristi (2006)
* Mehmood Dhaulpuri (2006)
* Shree Lal Joshi (2006)
* Surinder Kaur (2006)
* Rashid Khan (musician) (2006)
* Vasundhara Komkali (2006)
* Yashodhar Mathpal (2006)
* Madhup Mudgal (2006)
* Kavungal Chathunni Panicker (2006)
* Shyama Charan Pati (2006)
* Gayatri Sankaran (2006)
* Prasad Sawkar (2006)
* Aribam Syam Sharma (2006)
* Shobana (2006)
* Kanaka Srinivasan (2006)
* Pankaj Udhas (2006)
* Mohan Babu (2007)
* Geeta Chandran (2007)
* Astad Deboo (2007)
* Neelamani Devi (2007)
* Remo Fernandes (2007)
* P. Gopinathan (2007)
* Pushpa Hans (2007)
* Shanti Hiranand (2007)
* Ananda Shankar Jayant (2007)
* Govardhan Kumari (2007)
* Sonam Tshering Lepcha (2007)
* Balachandra Menon (2007)
* Shashikala (2007)
* Gajendra Narayan Singh (2007)
* Thingbaijam Babu Singh (2007)
* Pannuru Sripathy (2007)
* Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam (2007)
* Waman Thakre (2007)
* P. R. Thilagam (2007)
* Tom Alter (2008)
* Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar (2008)
* Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty (2008)
* Meenakshi Chitharanjan (2008)
* Madhuri Dixit Nene (2008)
* Kekoo Gandhy (2008)
* Helen Giri Syiem (2008)
* Jatin Goswami (2008)
* Hans Raj Hans (2008)
* Sabitri Heisnam (2008)
* Gokulotsavji Maharaj (2008)
* P. K. Narayanan Nambiar (2008)
* Gennadi Mikhailovich Pechinkov (2008)
* Gangadhar Pradhan (2008)
* M. Night Shyamalan (2008)
* Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram (2008)
* Jawahar Wattal (2008)
* Ameena Ahmad Ahuja (2009)
* Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (2009)
* Hemi Bawa (2009)
* Brahmanandam (2009)
* Devayani (dancer) (2009)
* Suresh Dutta (2009)
* Kalamandalam Gopi (2009)
* Niranjan Goswami (2009)
* Geeta Kapur (2009)
* Nirmal Singh Khalsa (2009)
* Hashmat Ullah Khan (2009)
* Helen (2009)
* S. Krishnaswamy (2009)
* Akshay Kumar (2009)
* Iravatham Mahadevan (2009)
* Hridaynath Mangeshkar (2009)
* Penaz Masani (2009)
* Shaoli Mitra (2009)
* Udit Narayan (2009)
* Govind Ram Nirmalkar (2009)
* Leela Omchery (2009)
* Pratapaditya Pal (2009)
* Aruna Sairam (2009)
* Mattannoor Sankarankutty (2009)
* Kumar Sanu (2009)
* Kiran Seth (2009)
* Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma (2009)
* Skendrowell Syiemlieh (2009)
* Thilakan (2009)
* K. P. Udayabhanu (2009)
* Vivek (actor) (2009)

2010s|

* Gul Bardhan (2010)
* Carmel Berkson (2010)
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