TN government announced the Kalaimamani awards after a gap of eight years since 2011.
Kalaimani Awards are given to the actors, dancers, writers, musician and singers for their contribution towards the Tamil culture.
This time 201 artistes will be honoured with this award including Vijay Sethupathi, Karthi and Prabhu dheva.
It was also announced the ‘Bharathi’ awards in the field of literature, ‘MS Subbulakshmi award’ in music and ‘Bala Saraswathi award’ in dance.
For the MS Subbulakshmi award, singers S.Janaki, the Bombay sisters C.Saroja and C.Lalitha and TV Gopalakrishnan have been selected.
Lyricist Pulamaipithan, veteran Villupattu artiste and lyricist Subbu Arumugam and writer-activist Sivasankari have been selected for the Bharathi award.
Vyjayanthimala, VP Dhananjayan and CV Chandrasekhar have been selected for the Bala Saraswathi award.