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Sadanam Krishnankutty
Sadanam Krishnankutty
Born	1941 Cherpulassery, Palakkad, Kerala, India
Occupation	Kathakali Performer and Trainer
Nationality	Indian

Sadanam Krishnankutty (born Cherpulassery, 1941) is a performer of Kathakali, a classical dance-drama form of Kerala, South India. A recipient of Kerala State Kathakali award^[1] and Kalamandalam fellowship,^[2]^[3] he has donned a wide range of characters in his acts.^[4]^[5] He received the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award in 2002,^[6] the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2007,^[7] Honorary D.litt from Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Thirur, Kerala in 2021 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 2021.

Early life

A native of Cherpulassery in Palakkad district, the 1941-born^[8] Krishnankutty was a disciple of Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair. He had his initial lessons under Thekkinkatil Ramunni Nair, and has also taken eye exercise and Rasa-Abhinaya classes from Mani Madhava Chakyar.^[9]

Krishnakutty had his Kathakali lessons at Sadanam Kathakali Akademi (Gandhi Seva Sadan) east of Ottapalam.^{[citation needed]} He was, for a brief while, Kathakali tutor at the Kerala Kalamandalam, Unnayi Varier Smaraka Kalanilayam in Irinjalakuda and Kala Mandir in Patna. A winner of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award (2002) and the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2006),^[3] he is known for his portrayal of roles in classical stories as well as newly staged Kathakali plays.^{[citation needed]}

Krishnankutty lives in Irinjalakuda town of Thrissur district.^[10]

References

^ "Kalamandalam fellowship, awards announced". The Hindu. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ "Kalamandalam fellowship for Sadhanam Krishnankutty". The Times of India. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Sadanam Krishnankutty selected for the Kerala Kalamandalam Fellowship". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ Kaladharan, V. (28 November 2013). "Actor for all seasons". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ Vasudevan, Vinu (17 April 2014). "Seasoned acts". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ "Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award: Kathakali". Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
^ "SNA Awardees' List". Sangeet Natak Akademi. 2016. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
^ Kathakali Vijnanakosam (encyclopedia, page 334)
^ "College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences".
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v t e Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
1954–1960	Allauddin Khan (1954) Hafiz Ali Khan (1954) Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar (1954) Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (1954) Prithviraj Kapoor (1954) Anjanibai Malpekar (1958)
1961–1980	Gopeshwar Banerjee (1962) D. Annaswami Bhagavathar (1962) Uday Shankar (1962) Papanasam Sivan (1962) Swami Prajnanananda (1963) Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar (1963) Pichu Sambamoorthi (1963) Mama Warerkar (1963) T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar (1964) C. Saraswathi Bai (1964) Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury (1964) B. R. Deodhar (1964) V. Raghavan (1964) P. V. Rajamannar (1964) Vinayakrao Patwardhan (1965) Ganesh Hari Ranade (1965) Dilipkumar Roy (1965) Jaideva Singh (1965) D. G. Vyas (1965) Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1966) E. Krishna Iyer (1966) Sombhu Mitra (1966) Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1966) Ebrahim Alkazi (1967) Rukmini Devi Arundale (1967) Musiri Subramania Iyer (1967) Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1967) P. K. Kunju Kurup (1967) Shambhu Maharaj (1967) V. Satyanarayana Sarma (1967) Adya Rangacharya (1967) Kali Charan Patnaik (1968) K. C. D. Brahaspati (1970) Kapila Vatsyayan (1970) Dilip Chandra Vedi (1970) Tarapada Chakraborty (1972) Krishnarao Phulambrikar (1972) Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma (1972) Shivaram Karanth (1973) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1974) Jnan Prakash Ghosh (1974) M. S. Subbulakshmi (1974) T. Balasaraswati (1975) Zubin Mehta (1975) Rasiklal Parikh (1975) Ravi Shankar (1975) Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar (1975) Santidev Ghosh (1976) Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer (1976) Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor (1977) Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai (1978) B. Puttaswamayya (1978) Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (1979) D. T. Joshi (1979) Sumati Mutatkar (1979) T. P. Kuppiah Pillai (1979) V. K. Narayana Menon (1980)
1981–2000	Mani Madhava Chakyar (1982) Mallikarjun Mansur (1982) M. Kirupanandawari (1984) Chandravadan Mehta (1984) Siyaram Tiwari (1984) V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar (1986) Komal Kothari (1986) S. Ramanathan (1986) Satyajit Ray (1986) Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali ‘Kumar Gandharva’ (1988) Lata Mangeshkar (1989) Utpal Dutt (1990) Ram Gopal (1990) Alain Daniélou (1991) Kelucharan Mohapatra (1991) T. S. Parthasarathy (1991) Ali Akbar Khan (1992) D. K. Pattammal (1992) Prem Lata Sharma (1992) Girish Karnad (1993) Mrinalini Sarabhai (1993) Bismillah Khan (1994) Yehudi Menuhin (1994) Maheswar Neog (1994) Vilayat Khan (1995) Ammannur Madhava Chakyar (1996) Gangubai Hangal (1996) Habib Tanvir (1996) Badal Sarkar (1997) Bhimsen Joshi (1998) Birju Maharaj (1998) K. P. Kittappa Pillai (1998) Vijay Tendulkar (1998)
2001–2021	M. Balamuralikrishna (2001) B. V. Karanth (2001) Vempati Chinna Satyam (2001) Shanno Khurana (2002) Kavalam Narayana Panicker (2002) Chandralekha (2004) Annapurna Devi (2004) Bindhyabasini Devi (2004) Ramankutty Nair (2004) Zohra Sehgal (2004) Tapas Sen (2004) Rohini Bhate (2006) T. N. Krishnan (2006) Kishan Maharaj (2006) Gursharan Singh (2006) Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra (2006) Sushil Kumar Saxena (2007) Khaled Choudhury (2008) Sitara Devi (2008) Bhupen Hazarika (2008) R. C. Mehta (2008) Kishori Amonkar (2009) Jasraj (2009) Lalgudi Jayaraman (2009) Yamini Krishnamurthy (2009) Shriram Lagoo (2009) Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi (2009) Girija Devi (2010) T. K. Murthy (2010) Nataraja Ramakrishna (2010) Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar (2010) M. Chandrasekaran (2011) Hariprasad Chaurasia (2011) Kalamandalam Gopi (2011) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2011) Heisnam Kanhailal (2011) Mukund Lath (2011) Shivkumar Sharma (2011) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (2011) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (2011) Padma Subrahmanyam (2011) Amjad Ali Khan (2011) N. Rajam (2012) Ratan Thiyam (2012) T. H. Vinayakram (2012) Mahesh Elkunchwar (2013) Kanak Rele (2013) R. Sathyanarayana (2013) Tulsidas Borkar (2014) S. R. Janakiraman (2014) Vijay Kumar Kichlu (2014) M. S. Sathyu (2014) C. V. Chandrasekhar (2015) Arvind Parikh (2016) R. Vedavalli (2016) Ram Gopal Bajaj (2016) Sunil Kothari (2016) Zakir Hussain (2018) Jatin Goswami (2018) Sonal Mansingh (2018) T. K. Kalyanasundaram (2018) Saroja Vaidyanathan (2019–2021) Sadanam Krishnankutty (2019–2021) Darshana Jhaveri (2019–2021) Chhannulal Mishra (2019–2021) A. K. C. Natarajan (2019–2021) Swapan Chaudhuri (2019–2021) Malini Rajurkar (2019–2021) T. V. Gopalakrishnan (2019–2021) Teejan Bai (2019–2021) Bharat Gupt (2019–2021)
2022–2023	Vinayak Khedekar (2022–2023) R. Visweswaran (2022–2023) Sunayana Hazarilal (2022–2023) Raja and Radha Reddy (2022–2023) Dulal Roy (2022–2023) Daya Prakash Sinha (2022–2023)

v t e Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Winners of Kerala
Carnatic Music - Vocal	Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar K. V. Narayanaswamy Neyyattinkara Vasudevan Trichur V. Ramachandran
Instrumental - Carnatic Violin	B. Sasikumar
Instrumental - Mridangam	Guruvayur Dorai Palghat Mani Iyer Palghat R. Raghu T. V. Gopalakrishnan
Creative and Experimental Music	K. P. Udayabhanu
Dance - Kathakali	Champakulam Pachu Pillai Chenganoor Raman Pillai Guru Gopinath Guru Kunchu Kurup Kalamandalam Gopi Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair Kalamandalam Rajan Kavungal Chathunni Panicker Kottakkal Chandrasekharan Kottakkal Sivaraman Madambi Subramanian Namboodiri Madavoor Vasudevan Nair Mankompu Sivasankara Pillai Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri Padmanabhan Nair Ramankutty Nair Sadanam Krishnankutty Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan Vasu Pisharody Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair Vazhenkada Vijayan Kalamandalam Kuttan Asan M. P. S. Namboodiri Ramachandran Unnithan Thonnakkal Peethambaran Varanasi Vishnu Namboothiri
Dance - Mohiniattam	Deepti Omchery Bhalla Gopika Varma Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Kalamandalam Leelamma Kalamandalam Satyabhama Kalamandalam Sugandhi Vimala Menon V. K. Hymavathy
Creative Dance/Choreography	Mrinalini Sarabhai
Major Traditions of Dance and Dance Theatre	Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri
Music for Dance	Kalamandalam Gangadharan
Theatre - Acting	N. N. Pillai
Theatre - Direction	Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
Theatre - Traditional / Folk / Dance / Music / Puppetry	Ammannur Madhava Chakyar Neralattu Rama Poduval Mani Madhava Chakyar P. K. Narayanan Nambiar Appukutty Poduval Mattannoor Sankarankutty
Performing Arts in the Media	K. J. Yesudas

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