'Ghantasala' award for music director

Vijayawada, Dec 28 (UNI) Well known music director T V Raju will be honoured by the Dilip Kumar Cultural Academy (DKCA) with the 'Ghantasala' award here tomorrow.

Addressing a press conference today, DKCA president Dilip Kumar said the award, constituted in 1999, was being presented every year to veteran playback singers and music directors.

The previous recipents of the award included singer P Susheela, Music Director M S Viswanathan, R P Patnaik and Devisri Prasad.

He said Mr Raju had scored music for more than 400 films.

The academy would also felicitate Smt G Savitramma, wife of late famous playback singer and music director Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, he added.

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