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2024 Winners

Eastern Eye Award for Arts

WINNER: Osman Yousefzada for Welcome ! A Palazzo for Immigrants
Chila Burman and Osman Yousefzada


Eastern Eye Award for Dance

WINNER: Jaivant Patel, for Waltzing the Blue Gods
Mira Kaushik OBE and Jaivant Patel


Eastern Eye Award for Fiction

WINNER: The Whole Kahani
Mona Dash (member of The Whole Kahani), Kavita A. Jindal (Co-Founder of The Whole Kahani) and Tony Matharu
Award Presented by Tony Matharu


Eastern Eye Award for Non-Fiction

WINNER: Sheela Banerjee for ‘What’s in a Name?
Her Honour Judge Anuja Dhir and author Sheela Banerjee


Eastern Eye Award for History

WINNER: Professor Joya Chatterji for Shadows at Noon: ‘The South Asian Twentieth Century’
Sundaram Tagore and Professor Joya Chatterji


Eastern Eye Award for Photography

WINNER: Hermann Rodrigues
Sanjay Shabi, Main Board Director of MediaCom, and Hermann Rodrigues


Eastern Eye Award for Music

WINNER: Najma Akhtar
Nandakumara Mattur, director of the Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan and Najma Akhtar


Eastern Eye Award for Best Production

WINNER: Birmingham Rep for Bhangra Nation
Raj Ghatak and from the Birmingham Rep Sarah Page, Kuljit Bhamra and Sean Foley


Eastern Eye Award for Best Director

WINNER: Meneka Das ‘A Doll’s House’
British High Commissioner to Singapore, His Excellency Nikesh Mehta and Meneka Das


Eastern Eye Award for Best Scriptwriter

WINNER: Shomit Dutta for his original play, ‘Stumped’
Shomit Dutta and Vraj Pankhania Founder and Group Chairman of Westcombe Group


Eastern Eye Award for Emerging Artist
supported by
Arts Council England

WINNER: Premi Tamang
Dipak Mistry, Senior Relationship Manager, Arts Council England and Premi Tamang


Eastern Eye Best Presenter Award

WINNER: Kavita Puri for Three Million
Sangita Myska and Kavita Puri


Eastern Eye Award for Theatre, Best Actor

WINNER: Lucca Chadwick-Patel for My Beautiful Laundrette
Lucca Chadwick-Patel and Ayesha Dharker


Eastern Eye Award for Theatre, Best Actress
supported by
Koolesh Shah Family Foundation

WINNER: Aysha Kala for ‘The Motive and The Cue’
Raj Ghatak and Victoria Crampton from Koolesh Shah Family Foundation Unfortunately, Aysha could not attend the ACTAs so her close friend Raj Ghatak collected the award on her behalf.


Eastern Eye Award for Film, TV & Drama – Best Actor
supported by
Hinduja Foundation

WINNER: Bhasker Patel for Emmerdale
Ashok Hinduja, Michael Urwick, Gopichand Hinduja, Jay Madhvan and Bhasker Patel


Eastern Eye Award for Film, TV & Drama – Best Actress

WINNER: Meera Syal for Mrs Sidhu Investigates
Barry Gardiner MP for Brent North and Meera Syal


Eastern Eye Award for Best Documentary

WINNER: ‘Defiance’ by Rogan Productions
James Rogan, Executive Producer of Rogan Productions; Shaminder Nahal, Channel 4 Head of Specialist Factual; Anoop Pandhal, Series Producer of Rogan Productions; and Barnie Choudhury.


Eastern Eye Community Engagement Award

WINNER: The Royal Academy for ‘Entangled Pasts’ 1768 to now – Art, Colonialism and Change.
Shailesh Solanki, Executive Editor of Asian Media Group, Mohini Chandra, Andrea Tarsia, Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy and Kalpesh Solanki, Group Managing Editor of Asian Media Group


Eastern Eye Editor's Special Award

WINNER: Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain 1600 to Now…at MK Gallery
Anthony Spira, Director of MK Gallery, Richard Blurton and Emily Hannam, Curator at the V&A Museum


Eastern Eye Trailblazer Award
supported by
Yusuf & Farida Hamied Foundation

WINNER: Tanika Gupta
Dr Yusuf Hamied and Tanika Gupta


Eastern Eye Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Creative Industry

WINNER: Indhu Rubasingham MBE
Nitin Ganatra OBE and Indhu Rubasingham MBE


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