The most coveted National honor, 12th Rajiv Gandhi National Awards are all set to take place amidst high fanfare on 19th August, 2009 at the National Centre for Performing Arts, in Mumbai. This year’s winners include stalwarts like Shahid Kapoor (Best Actor), Katrina Kaif (Best Actress), Vineet Jain (Industrialist), Ramesh Chandra Agarwal (Journalism), Sam Pitroda (Global Indian), Dr. Narendra Jadhav (Educationist), Dr. G. Madhavan Nair (Super Achiever), Krushnaa Patil (Women Achiever), Avika Gor (Child Prodigy), Rajashree Birla (Social Field), Rohit Kochhar (Young Entrepreneur). These renowned personalities will be honoured in a grand manner amidst lot of performances & entertainment extravaganza on the eve of Shri Rajiv Gandhi’ birth anniversary.
The award ceremony will be graced by dignitaries like Kamalnath, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Ashok Chavan, Murli Deora, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Maken, Rajiv Shukla, Priya Dutt, Milind Deora, Eknath Gaikwad, Sanjay Nirupam, Mohd. Azharuddin, Subodh Kant Sahay, Gurudas Kamat, Manikrao Thackray.
Ms. Aarti Mattoo, Chairperson of Momentum Group is the Event Director of Rajiv Gandhi Awards Committee and ensures a smooth & genuine conduction of these awards and the processes therein.
The list of past Awardees includes Sunita Williams, Khalli, Ana Hazare, Kapil Dev, Mukesh Ambani, Baba Kalyani, Shilpa Shetty, Adi Godrej, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Anand Mahindra, Sachin Tendulkar, Sania Mirza, Dhanraj Pillay, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukherjee, Veer Sanghvi, Sant Singh Chatwal, Barkha Dutt and many others.
Rajiv Gandhi Awards has always had many Bollywood Biggies as the performers in the past, including Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Navin Prabhakar, Rakhi Sawant, Vivek Oberoi, Sukhwinder Singh, Koina Mitra, Tanushree Dutta, Aftab Shivdasani, Sunidhi Chauhan, Isha Shravani, Sivamani, Tisca Chopra, Sajid Khan, Anupam Kher, Parizad Kolha, and more.
This year also, many celebrities namely Hrithik Roshan Shreyas Talpade, Mahima Chowdhary, Esha Deol, Huassain Kuwajerwala, Priyanka Chopra, Raju Shrivastav, Vishal Shekhar are to perform in this event which will reach millions of people internationally.
