The award ceremony for the Padma Awards 2025 took place at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan in Delhi on Monday. Here are the celebrities who received awards.
On Monday, the Padma Awards 2025 took place at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. Celebrities like Nandamuri Balakrishna, Ajith Kumar, Sekhar Kapur, Arijit Singh and Ricky Kej received their awards from President Droupadi Murmu. Pankaj Udhas was honoured posthumously.
The Padma Shri was awarded to Arijit Singh and Ricky Kej. The award ceremony was streamed live on YouTube. Several others in the field of sports, medicine, business, and other fields also received awards on Monday.
Ajith Kumar, Shekhar Kapur about the Padma honour
When the awards were announced in January, Ajith issued a statement that read, “I am deeply humbled and honoured to receive the esteemed Padma Award by the President of India. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu and the Honourable Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi for this prestigious honour. It is a privilege to be recognized at such a level and I am truly grateful for this generous acknowledgment of my contributions to our nation.”
Shekhar had posted on X (formerly Twitter), “What an honour! Am humbled that the Government of India has considered me to be deserving of a #Padmanbhushan. Hopefully this award will make me strive harder to serve the Industry that I am part of, and the beautiful Nation that I am so fortunate to belong to. Thank you also to our film audiences of India, for I am because you are.
