Radio Kashmir broadcaster, actor, and theatre director Upinder Khashu passes away
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NEW DELHI: Well-known broadcaster, actor and theatre director Upinder Khashu handed away on Tuesday at a Gurugram hospital after a short sickness.
Khashu, 70, is survived by his spouse, Girija Khashu Watal, additionally a famous broadcaster of All India Radio (AIR), and two daughters.
Srinagar-born Khashu learn information in Urdu and Kashmiri on the erstwhile Radio Kashmir till 1990 when threats from militants pressured him emigrate to Delhi.
He was supplied police safety for a substantial time.
Khashu grew to become a family title in Kashmir after enjoying a key position in tele-serial ‘Chauraha’ (crossroad) within the mid-Eighties.
He gained nationwide prominence with a strong efficiency in hit serial ‘Gul Gulshan Gulfaam’, telecast in 1987 by Doordarshan.
It was one of many first serials based mostly in Kashmir and portrayed camaraderie between Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims.
In his later years, Khashu wrote and directed Kashmiri performs that had been staged in Mumbai, Delhi and Jammu.
A celebrated stage, radio, TV and movie actor, he initially hailed from Zaindar Mohalla Srinagar and began his profession as a stage artist from Vasant theatre as a colleague of Ashok Jailkhani.
He labored in a whole lot of performs and serials and in some characteristic movies as properly.
His final directorial enterprise, ‘Wasa’, was staged in Jammu two years in the past.
NEW DELHI: Well-known broadcaster, actor and theatre director Upinder Khashu handed away on Tuesday at a Gurugram hospital after a short sickness.
Khashu, 70, is survived by his spouse, Girija Khashu Watal, additionally a famous broadcaster of All India Radio (AIR), and two daughters.
Srinagar-born Khashu learn information in Urdu and Kashmiri on the erstwhile Radio Kashmir till 1990 when threats from militants pressured him emigrate to Delhi.
He was supplied police safety for a substantial time.
Khashu grew to become a family title in Kashmir after enjoying a key position in tele-serial ‘Chauraha’ (crossroad) within the mid-Eighties.
He gained nationwide prominence with a strong efficiency in hit serial ‘Gul Gulshan Gulfaam’, telecast in 1987 by Doordarshan.
It was one of many first serials based mostly in Kashmir and portrayed camaraderie between Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims.
In his later years, Khashu wrote and directed Kashmiri performs that had been staged in Mumbai, Delhi and Jammu.
A celebrated stage, radio, TV and movie actor, he initially hailed from Zaindar Mohalla Srinagar and began his profession as a stage artist from Vasant theatre as a colleague of Ashok Jailkhani.
He labored in a whole lot of performs and serials and in some characteristic movies as properly.
His final directorial enterprise, ‘Wasa’, was staged in Jammu two years in the past.
