Theatre Director Bansi Kaul Passed Away

  • 15 Feb 2021

  • Noted theatre director Bansi Kaul has passed away.
  • Born in 1949 in a Kashmiri Pandit family, Kaul began his career as a director with NSD Repertory Company after graduating from National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi in 1973.
  • Kaul was a part of the faculty of school for many years before forming ‘Rang Vidushak’, his own theatre institute in Bhopal in 1984.
  • In 1995, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and in 2014 Kaul was honoured with the prestigious Padma Shri. Kaul also a recipient of the Rashtriya Kalidas Samman for the year 2016–17 given by the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh.