Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 15: Two J&K artists have been conferred with Natsamrat Theatre Awards 2020.
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee, Mushtaq Kak from Jammu and Padam Shri Bansi Kaul from Srinagar were awarded with the awards at 12th Natsamrat Theatre Awards function held at New Delhi.
Kak was given ‘Best Director’ award while Padam Shri Bansi Kaul was given ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.
A handout stated that Kak has spent 10 long years at Shri Ram Centre as a Director and his close connection with Delhi has helped him in coming up with some of the great theatre productions.
Kak has been a regular observer, judge and coordinator of various national theatre festivals held in past in different states of the country.
He was also one of the eminent members of screening committee of Theatre Olympiad 8, an international theatre festival organized by Culture Department, Government of India and National School of Drama.
Bansi Kaul started his career as a director with NSD Repertory Company and was also in the faculty of the school for many years, before forming his own theatre group in 1984.
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1995 and the Padma Shri in 2014.
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