Veterans Chitra Visweswaran, Padma Subrahmanyam, Sudharani Raghupathy and C.V. Chandrasekhar were honoured with the title of Aiyyelu Natya Sreshta on the occasion of dance costume designer D.S. Aiyyelu’s 90th birth anniversary on 30 September 2018 at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai. Revathi Ramachandran and K.N. Ramaswamy were the guests of honour. The programme was organised by Aiyyelu’s son Sivakumar.