Telugu film comedians felicitated actor Padmanabham at a function organized in Film Chamber hall on the night of 30 September. Brahmanandam, Suthivalu, Rallapalli, Rama Prabha, Geetanjali, AVS, Tanikella Bharani, Ali, Uttej, Srinivasa Reddy, Ram Jagan, Chittibabu, Subbaraya Sharma, Anant, MS Narayana, Vinod Bala, Gundu Hanmantha rao, Gowtamraju, Ravi Kondalrao, Venu Madhav, Echuri etc participated in it.

D Suresh Babu gave 50,000 to Padmanabham, Brahmanandam gave 58,000 and Tanikella Bharavi gave 25,000. The entire comedians community gave away Rs. 3,00,000/- to Padmanabham. Dasari Narayana Rao announced a monthly pension of 3,000 to Padmanabham. Comedian Anant announced a monthly pension of 2000 to Padmanabham.

Padmanabham said, "I was born in August, 1931. Today I feel that it's a rebirth. All my comedians and colleagues gave me 3 lac rupees. I would like to thank everybody on this eve."