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Bhupesh Joshi, a resident of Chahaj village of Gangolihat sub-division of the district, residing presently in New Delhi, has been awarded for his acting and direction of historical and modern plays on the stage.” Besides working towards folk stage promotion, my work includes acting in historical ,classical and modern plays. My roles in \u2018Serian\u2019, \u2018Charudatt\u2019 like historical plays and \u2018Aasaad ka ek din\u2019 like modern plays was specially recognised,” said Bhupesh joshi.<\/p>\n Bhupesh Joshi, a senior stage and TV artists active in Delhi from last 30 years has contributed to popularising folk art. He held a number of theatre workshops in Pithoragarh duringpast two decades. “Besides doing routine work of stage for my livelihood, I,ve been busy in bringing traditional stage methods of my region into mainstream theatre through my organisation named Gatha,” said Joshi.He played the lead role in more than 60 renowned and popular plays during his career.<\/p>\n Kailash Kumar, the new generation folk artist has been awarded \u2018Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuwa Puraskar\u2019 for his contribution in staging traditional Himalayan folk of \u2018Hiljatra\u2019 in the mainstream of the theatre scene of country.<\/p>\n Kailash Kumar, founder of \u2018Bhav Rag Tal\u2019 academy in 2012 in Pithoragarh, was awarded under 40 years age category of folk artists, started by academy from 2006.” This award has been given to Kailash Kumar for his devotion towards promoting traditional stage and musical instruments and promoting traditional folk stage form of \u2018Hiljatra\u2019.” said Mahesh Badal, a close companion of Kailash Kumar.<\/p>\n Bharav Datt Tiwari, Narayan Singh, Jagdish Dhaudiyal and Jugal Kishor Petsali have been awarded under \u2018Amrit\u2019 category by Sangeet Natak Academy this year. The award is for overall performance in the sphere of art and music.<\/p>\n Viren Singh Rawat, Reshma Shah, Puran Singh and Kailash Kumar have been awarded \u2018Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Purskar\u2019 this year for contribution in folk music, while Kailash Kumar from Pithoragarh has been awarded for his contribution promoting folk stage arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jubilation among folk, theatre artists as dozen from Uttarakhand honoured with \u2018Sangeet Natak Akademi\u2019 awards B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Nov 27 There has been elation and jubilation amongst the folk, traditional and theatre artists of Uttarakhand as a dozen artists even those belonging to far flung cultural region of the state have received national recognition including three …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,91,59],"tags":[906,908,910,907,909,905,102],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national","category-uttarakhand","tag-folk-and-theatre-art-form-of-uttarakhand","tag-hiljatra","tag-nanda-devi-jagar","tag-prof-d-r-purohit","tag-ramman","tag-sangeet-natak-akademi-awards","tag-uttarakhand"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bhupesh-Joshi.jpg\")
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