Aamir Khan to be first recipient of the RK Laxman Award for Excellence

The family of the famous cartoonist late RK Laxman has decided to pay a tribute to him by instituting the first-ever RK Laxman Award for Excellence.

The family has organised a live music concert by maestro AR Rahman on November 23 and will be celebrating the glorious legacy left by the cartoonist during the event. The concert is scheduled to commence from 5 pm onwards in the MCA Cricket Stadium, Pune.

Usha Lakshman, the daughter-in-law of the late cartoonist, told in an interview, “The RK Laxman family has organised an AR Rahman live music concert on Sunday. During the event, we will be paying tribute to RK Laxman by instituting the first-ever RK Laxman Award for Excellence.”

“The recipient of this award will be Aamir Khan, and this will be the biggest tribute we, as a family, are offering to Laxman,” she concluded.

Laxman, a celebrated Indian cartoonist and illustrator, was best known for his creation, The Common Man, and for his daily cartoon strip, You Said It.

He is also credited with creating the sketches for the television adaptation of the show Malgudi Days, which was written by his elder brother, RK Narayan, and directed by Shankar Nag.

Laxman passed away in Pune’s Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in 2015 at the age of 93. During his tenure, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1973 by the Government of India and the Padma Vibhushan in 2005. He also received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Mysore in 2004.

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Despite his splendid talent, RK Laxman was rejected by the prestigious Sir JJ Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai

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