MM Keeravaani shared this image. (courtesy: @mmkeeravaani)

New Delhi:

Composer MM Keeravaani tweeted his due to the federal government after being named as a Padma awardee on Wednesday night. The Golden Globe winner will obtain the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour. The Padma Awards are handed out yearly by the federal government. MM Keeravaani is amongst these awardees who will likely be honoured for his or her contribution within the area of artwork. In his thanks submit, he named his mother and father in addition to mentors, amongst them his music trainer Kavitapu Seethanna. 

In his tweet, MM Keeraavani wrote: “Much honoured by the civilian award from the Govt of India. Respect for my parents and all of my mentors from Kavitapu Seethanna garu to Kuppala Bulliswamy Naidu garu on this occasion.”

Much honoured by the civilian award from the Govt of India 🙏 Respect for my mother and father and all of my mentors from Kavitapu Seethanna garu to Kuppala Bulliswamy Naidu garu on this event 🙏

— mmkeeravaani (@mmkeeravaani) January 25, 2023

From the world of cinema, actress Raveena Tandon has additionally been given a Padma Shri. The award ceremony will likely be held later this 12 months with President Droupadi Murmu anticipated to current the honours.

The Padma Shri caps a golden January for MM Keeravaani. Earlier this month, he gained the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for his composition Naatu Naatu from blockbuster movie RRR. Just a day earlier than the record of Padma honours had been introduced, Naatu Naatu was nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars. 

In RRR, set within the pre-independent India of the 1920, the globally viral Naatu Naatu is a dance battle wherein the 2 leads, performed by Ram Charan and Jr NTR, tackle a whole backyard get together of Britishers and, ultimately, one another. The grueling dance routine prompted followers around the globe to aim the strikes.

RRR, directed by SS Rajamouli, is a interval movie mounted on a rare scale. It is a fictionalized story of two real-life freedom fighters, Alluri Sitaramaraju and Komaram Bheem. In the movie, they meet and turn out to be finest buddies, ultimately teaming up in opposition to the British. The forged consists of Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, Olivia Morris and Edward Sonnenblick.

RRR is among the highest-earning Indian movies with worldwide collections of over Rs 2,000 crore.