Santosham 11th Anniversary Awards (Set 1)

Suresh Kondeti’s Santhosham Magazine which has successful completed 11 years and stepping into the 12th year in August, has been giving away awards to the film talents for the past 11 years. It created history by honoring all four film industries from the South last year. And this time Santosham has gone a step ahead and honored the legends from 11 languages marking 100 years of Indian Cinema. This Suresh Kondeti’s feat was the first of its kind and never done before by anyone in Indian cinema. This star studded event was a grand event with several big wigs attending the function on August 31st at Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad. Suresh Kondeti received the accolauds for felicitating legends from 11 languages as well as giving awards to the South Indian bests on the same venue.

The award function was graced by Darsakaratna Dasari Narayana Rao, D Ramanaidu, Raghavendra Rao, Allu Aravind, K S Rama Rao, Krishna, Vijaya Nirmala, SP Balasubrahmaniam, Krishnam Raju, Victory Venkatesh, Rao Charan, Raana, Devisri Prasad, Thaman, Rajendra Prasad, Allari Naresh, Giribabu, Sai Kumar, Brahmanandam, Nara Jayasridevi, V Srinivasa Reddy, Vijay Kumar Konda, Chalapathy Rao, Thanikella Bharani, Vandemataram Srinivasa Rao, R Narayana Murthy, Kalabhinetri Vanisri, Jamuna, Jayanti, Thaman, Mamata Mohan Das, hansika, Kamna Jetmalani, Madhurima, Charmi, etc.

Legends who received the felicitation were Krishnam Raju and Vanisri (Life-time Achievement Award), Rao Ramesh (Allu Ramalingiah award) and director Srinivasa Reddy (EVV award). Actress C Krishna Veni was felicitated by a shawl by Dr Dasari Narayana Rao. Actress Jamuna was honored with the golden anklet by Rao Balasaraswathi. Similarly singer cum actor Rao bala Saraswathi, Krishna Vishwajith Chaterjee (Bengali), Kunaal Singh (Bhojpuri), Sheela (Malayalam), Chakrapani-Rojamani, Usha Nadkarni (Maraati), Ravichandran (Kannada) were also felicitated.