Raveena Tandon conferred with Padma Shri award

The Padma Awards were announced on Wednesday, and RRR’s music composer MM Keeravaani and Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon were conferred with the Padma Shri.

Reacting to the Padma Shri honour, Raveena told Indianexpress.com, “I am honoured and grateful. This is surreal. Thank you so much, Government of India, for acknowledging my contributions, my life, my passion and purpose that allowed me to contribute not only to the film industry, but also beyond. I thank all those who guided me through this journey of art and craft of cinema. All those who held my hand through it, and all those who watched me from their place above. I owe this to my father Ravi Tandon.”

Raveena was also recently selected by the Ministry to attend the W20 as a delegate. W20 is the Women’s Empowerment engagement wing at the G20. She added that she is a delegate there owing to her social work and that the Padma Shri is for her Arts, and was glad that she has been recognized as a citizen as well.

Raveena Tandon, who made her Bollywood debut in 1991 with Patthar Ke Phool, has starred in diverse range of films and has also experimented with arthouse cinema. Raveena has starred in Andaz Apna Apna, Mohra, Diwale (1994), Khiladiyon Ke Khiladi, Daman and Aks among others. She featured in a supporting role in 2022’s KGF: Chapter 2 and also made her OTT debut with the crime thriller series Aranyak.

Other Padma awardees from the field of arts include Suman Kalyanpur, Jodhaiyabai Baiga, Premjit Baria, Usha Barle, Hemant Chauhan, Bhanubhai Chitara, Hemoprova Chutia, Subhadra Devi, Hem Chandra Goswami, Pritikana Goswami, Ahmed Hussain and Mohd Hussain, Dilshad Hussain, Mahipat Kavi, Parshuram Komaji Khune, Maguni Charan Kuanr, Domar Singh Kunvar, Risingbor Kurkalang, Rani Machaiah, Ajay Kumar Mandavi, Nadoja Pindipapanahalli Munivenkatappa, Ramesh Parmar and Shanti Parmar, Krishna Patel, K Kalyanasundaram Pillai, Kapil Dev Prasad, S R D Prasad, Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri, C V Raju, Pareshbhai Rathwa, Mangala Kanti Roy, K C Runremsangi, Ritwik Sanyal, Kota Satchidananda Sastry, Neihunuo Sorhie, Moa Subong, Coomi Nariman Wadia and Ghulam Muhammad Zaz.