Veteran actress Bharathi Vishnuvardhan will be honoured with the Padmasri award by the Government of India. The Information Ministry has released a list of awardees out of which Bharathi Vishnuvardhan will be given the Padmasri award for the year 2017.

Bharathi Vishnuvardhan came to Kannada film industry way back in 1960s and has acted in hundreds of films spanning five decades. Bharathi recently completed 50 years in the industry.