By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Well known broadcaster, actor and theatre director Upinder Khashu kicked the bucket on Tuesday at a Gurugram health center after a short lived sickness.
Khashu, 70, is survived via 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 at the erstwhile Radio Kashmir till 1990 when threats from militants pressured him emigrate to Delhi.
He used to be supplied police coverage for a substantial time.
Khashu turned into a family title in Kashmir after enjoying a key function in tele-serial ‘Chauraha’ (crossroad) within the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
He received nationwide prominence with an impressive efficiency in hit serial ‘Gul Gulshan Gulfaam’, telecast in 1987 via Doordarshan.
It used to be probably the most first serials primarily based 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 degree, radio, TV and movie actor, he at the beginning hailed from Zaindar Mohalla Srinagar and began his profession as a degree artist from Vasant theatre as a colleague of Ashok Jailkhani.
He labored in loads of performs and serials and in some function movies as neatly.
His ultimate directorial mission, ‘Wasa’, used to be staged in Jammu two years in the past.
NEW DELHI: Well known broadcaster, actor and theatre director Upinder Khashu kicked the bucket on Tuesday at a Gurugram health center after a short lived sickness.
Khashu, 70, is survived via 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 at the erstwhile Radio Kashmir till 1990 when threats from militants pressured him emigrate to Delhi.
He used to be supplied police coverage for a substantial time.
Khashu turned into a family title in Kashmir after enjoying a key function in tele-serial ‘Chauraha’ (crossroad) within the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
He received nationwide prominence with an impressive efficiency in hit serial ‘Gul Gulshan Gulfaam’, telecast in 1987 via Doordarshan.
It used to be probably the most first serials primarily based 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 degree, radio, TV and movie actor, he at the beginning hailed from Zaindar Mohalla Srinagar and began his profession as a degree artist from Vasant theatre as a colleague of Ashok Jailkhani.
He labored in loads of performs and serials and in some function movies as neatly.
His ultimate directorial mission, ‘Wasa’, used to be staged in Jammu two years in the past.
