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**PhillipHer** · 10-18-2005, 08:00 AM

I am certain that I can't be the only one that wonders (or is bewildered) by the criteria for these awards....
MSV, IR, PS, LRE, VJ, and a host of other stalwarts and legends are sidelined (TMS had the honour a couple of years ago? go figure!!) and KK and Chithra get a Padmashree. Not that I grudge these artistes their moment in the national limelight, and I wish them greater success....but what gives? I mean, is there any sort of rationale behind the conferring of these titles? How can one even think of these things as being based on merit, when far more prolific (and meritorious) artistes have been given the shaft - and - yet again?

I guess my list will begin to inch up only after Sujatha, Chinmayi, Vasundhara Das, Harris Jeyaraj...& Co. have been given the nod

Don't get me wrong - but you must also see the ignominy when IR, a living institution (and the one and only reason for Chithra's rise in southern film music) is glossed over, and his protege makes it to the hallowed hall of national achievement? How unconscionable is that??

10-18-2005, 08:00 AM	#4
PhillipHer Join Date Jun 2008 Age 58 Posts 4,481 Senior Member	I am certain that I can't be the only one that wonders (or is bewildered) by the criteria for these awards.... MSV, IR, PS, LRE, VJ, and a host of other stalwarts and legends are sidelined (TMS had the honour a couple of years ago? go figure!!) and KK and Chithra get a Padmashree. Not that I grudge these artistes their moment in the national limelight, and I wish them greater success....but what gives? I mean, is there any sort of rationale behind the conferring of these titles? How can one even think of these things as being based on merit, when far more prolific (and meritorious) artistes have been given the shaft - and - yet again? I guess my list will begin to inch up only after Sujatha, Chinmayi, Vasundhara Das, Harris Jeyaraj...& Co. have been given the nod Don't get me wrong - but you must also see the ignominy when IR, a living institution (and the one and only reason for Chithra's rise in southern film music) is glossed over, and his protege makes it to the hallowed hall of national achievement? How unconscionable is that??
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