Asian Cat Sharad Shamman (Bengali: ??????? ??????? ???? ?????? ) is a special award given to the finest Durga Puja Pandal decorated in Kolkata during the festival in October. Since its founding in 1985, Cat Asia Sharad Shamman has been heralded as a true achievement for excellence in decorating a dwelling for Goddess Durga. Over time, there have been many awards given by many other companies for creative excellence, but nevertheless Cat Asia Sharad Shamman is considered the most important award and the right judgment for excellence. This is the trend setter for all awards later.
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About Awards
"Asian Cat Sharad Shamman" began in 1985 as a means to award the best decorated pandal puja for Durga Puja in Kolkata. Sharad means "Autumn (as the festival takes place that season)" and Shamman means "Respect/Respect", and sponsored by Cat Asia, then the name Cat Asia Sharad Shamman. Out of about 3000 puja pandals in Kolkata, few are elected and six are awarded.
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Award Category
A total of six awards are given to six puja pandals. When Sharad Shamman started in 1985 only three awards were given to the three Best Puja pandas. From 1994, a special award called "Discovery of the Year" was introduced in honor of a wholly unknown pandal for its excellence. These 4 categories continue for the next six years. But in 2000, Cat Asia felt that the award was too similar, there was no limit to identifying the Best Decorating of the Pandal or the Best Idol. Therefore, in 2000 two new categories were introduced - "Creative Excellence", which focused on the Best Dressed Pandal, and "Best Artist", awarded to Best Idol artist. Currently these six categories represent the Asian Cat Sharad Shamman. Some parameters for the giving of pandals include the overall beauty and grandeur of the pandal based on the chosen theme, the beauty of the Durga protocol, how well the sanctum of the protima has been shown, and the proficiency in the work done on the pandal.
Best Best Puja (Shrestho Pujo)
active year (1985-present)
This award was the first award given when APSS started in 1985. Three pandal puja were chosen by everything, namely, decorative Excellence, best idol, ambience, lighting, etc. No demarcation existed like a winner, first prize: instead of all three puja counted as the Best Puja. Usually the winners in this category used to be the famous Pujas, but today many unknown Pujas have been cut with technical excellence for this award bag. Currently, Durga Pujas in Kolkata is more oriented theme . Some specific themes like Madhubani art or ground cups or a place like Kerala, will be the basis for decoration. In 2001, "Bosepukur Sitalamandir" decorated the pandal completely from the ground cup and was so popular that it won the Best Puja award down. Already many Pujas who have won this award many times. "Adi Ballygunge" leads the list with five wins. Puja, who has been declared the winner of this list can not be expressed in the "Discovery of the Year" award even though it can win the "Creative Excellence" or "Best Craftsman" award.
Among the winners Samman Asia sharad samman (see list above "wins") LAKETOWN NATUNPALLY PRADEEP SANGHA is the first puja committee that has won the prestigious durga puja award (Best Puja or, Shrestho Pujo) for three years respectively (2006, 2007 and 2008). In 2009 they were selected for the final round of this award and came very close to winning the prestigious award for the fourth time. This rare record remains unbroken until 2013. In 2013 the record was broken by two famous Puja committees in Kolkata named "Suruchi Sangha" and "Naktala Udayan Sangha".
'Best known "BEST PUJA" to date is Nabodaya pallimangal Durgapuja 2000. It has been designed with the best international influence on Bengali ritual by artist SAUMYA BANDYOPADHYAY to date.
Discovery of the Year (Bochorer Bismoy)
active years (1994-present)
The discovery of the Year was first introduced in 1994 as a means of introducing the previously unknown and undiscovered Puja Pandal. Many unknown Pujas have appeared on this very popular list in Kolkata. Notable among them are Barisha Sahajatri, Karbagan, Shivmandir Sarbojanin, and others. Laketown Netaji Sporting Club modeled their pandal entirely in a hill village and won this award in 2003. It is also common that Puja Pandal was popular in Kolkata the previous year, but won the "Discovery" award next year. In that case logically it is not "Discovery of the Year". Puja, having won this title, can not win it anymore. Rammohan Sammilani won this year's invention in 1994. Creative Excellence (Nobbo Nakshi)
active year (2000-present)
Beginning in 2000, Creative Excellence or Nobbo Nakshi in Bengali, was given as a means to forge the best decorative pandal. Pandals who have won the "Best Puja" and "Discovery of the Year" can also win this award. "Darpanarayan Tagore Street" adorned their pandal entirely from cowdung, who won the first "Creative Perfection" award in 2000. The puja club can win this award anytime regardless of whether they are previously unknown or famous puja. The jury seeks the intricacies and details that are woven to create the concept really, and describes it with technical brilliance.
Best Artist (Shrestho Protimashilpi)
active year (2000-present)
Introduced in 2000, the Best Artisan award was awarded to Best Idol makers. The jury seeks beauty, peace, strength, proficiency in the idol and how well the idol can blend with the theme of the puja. Notable among the winners is Sanatan Dinda who has won 3 Best Artisan awards, one for "Hatibagan Sarbojanin" in 2000 and two for "Nalin Sarkar Street" in 2004 and 2006, Shri Pradip Rudra Paul who won 2 awards for "Behala Adarshapally "and Shri Purnendu Dey who won two awards, one for" Chakraberia Sarbojanin "in 2007 and for" Barisha Club "in 2008. Behala Adarshapally won the category Best Puja and Best Artist in 2005. Tala Barowari Durgotsab has won the Best Artist back to 2014,2015 with Shri Subrata Banerjee.
Special Awards (Bisesh Shamman)
special jury award for overall excellence. [1]
Awards
The statue given to Asian Cat Sharad Shamman looks like a snail shell. This is a small (previously gold) silver structure located above the pedestal. It is enclosed in a glass box and delivered to the winner along with a check. Variations are included for sculptures for the "Creative Excellence" award. This includes a ground pot statue with coconut leaves and a traditional mango on it. It is also made of silver.
Asian Cat Logo and slogan
For Asian Cat Sharad Shamman, the logo of a boy who plays dhak (drums) is displayed. Also among the logos is Maa Durga's face in monochrome line drawing, small children playing with balloons etc.
The slogan for awards is "Shuddha suchi, sustha ruchi'r sera bachai" meaning "The best of the artistically efficient and culturally significant", as explained by the late poet Shri Subhash Mukhopadhay. Since then, this is the main slogan for the award.
Judge and ratings
The judges for the award are selected from who is from Begali Literati and includes artists, art critics, writers, actors, politicians, models, singers, poets etc. Notable among those chosen over the years are Shuvaprasanna artists, actor Sabyasachi, Moon Moon Sen, PC Sorcer witch, Bratati vocalist etc. Puja pandals are required to submit their application on the 3rd day of Puja. The judges toured the city on the fifth and sixth day and visited all the different Puja pandas. On the seventh day, 12 finalists were selected and their names were announced. Finally, on the eighth night, the winners in different categories were declared and handed over with their trophies.
List of winners
Here is a list of winners for Cat Asia Sharad Shamman from the last 28 years.
Most wins:
The greatest collective victory is with the following Pujas:
- New Alipore Suruchi Sangha (9)
- Udayan Sangha Lost (6)
- Barisha Club (6) *
- Adi Ballygunge (5)
- Nalin Sarkar Street (4)
- Mudiali (4)
- Behala Adarshapally (4)
- Shibmandir Sarbojanin Durgotsab Samiti (4)
- Laketown Natunpally Pradip Sangha (3)
- Tala Barowari (3)
- Sunilnagar (3)
- Contact Sarbojanin (3)
- Haridevpur Ajeya Sanghati (3)
- Pathuriaghata 5er Pally (3)
- Karbagan (3)
- Chakraberia Sarbojanin (3)
Among the artisans of Dinda Dinda lead with five wins, one for Hatibagan Sarbojanin, one for Barisha Club and three for Nalin Sarkar Street.
- Barisha Club's collective triumph is 6. This club is a mix of former Shrishti clubs and Sahajatri . Sahajatri won 1 award in 1998 and Shrishti won 2 awards in 2001 and 2004. So along with this award and awards for 2008, 2010 and 2012, their collective win is 6.
- Among the winners of samman sharad samman Asia (see list above "Winning") Laketown Natunpally Pradeep Sangha is the first puja committee to have won the prestigious durga puja award for three consecutive years (2006, 2007 and 2008). In 2009 they were selected for the final round of this award and came very close to winning the prestigious award for the fourth time. This rare record is unbroken until 2013. In 2013 the record was broken by two famous Puja committees in Kolkata named "Suruchi Sangha" and "Naktala Udayan Sangha".
References
External links
- Official Website Asian Paint of Sharad Shamman
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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