Harpal tijuana biography
Harpal tijuana biography death!
Harpal Tiwana died on May 19
Punjabi theatre loses a star
Pritam Saini
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WITH the death of Harpal Tiwana, Punjab has lost a bright star in its theatre and film firmament.
Harpal tijuana biography
Born in 1935, Harpal was the son of the late Jagir Singh Tiwana, the famous hockey player of Punjab, who was also a distinguished police officer of Patiala state and a poet of the Urdu language. Harpal was studying in MA (English) at Government College, Ludhiana, when he got admission to the National School of Drama, Delhi.
He was the first Punjabi student to join this course scholarship from the Punjab Government of late Partap Singh Kairon.
There he learnt the art of acting and directing under the guidance of E.Alkazi, world renowned teacher of drama.
Like his teacher, Harpal too earned fame by staging plays in many states of India and in foreign countries like Canada, Russia, America, England, Lebanon, Kuwait, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Syria and Jordan. Apart from socia