The senior most and one of the top rated comedians, Padmanabham, was felicitated by the Telugu film comedians at a function held at Film Chamber on September 30th. D Suresh Babu, Dr Dasari Narayana Rao, Dr Brahmanandam, Geetanjali, Rama Prabha, Tanikella Bharani, AVS, Suthivelu, Rallapalli, MS Narayana, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Venu Madhav, Ali, Ananth, Srinivas Reddy, Uttej, Gowtham Raju, Raavi Kondal Rao, Chitti Babu, etc., were the prominent who graced the occasion.
While the entire comedians together presented an amount of Rs 3,00,000 to Padmanabham, Brahmanandam presented Rs 58,000, D Suresh Babu Rs 50,000 and Tanikella Bharani Rs 25,000. On the other hand Dasari Narayana Rao announced a monthly pension of Rs 3,000 and Ananth announced a monthly pension of Rs 2,000 to Padmanabham.
Later, Padmanabham thanked everyone for their kind gesture. He said that he was feeling as if the day was a rebirth to him.