Tshering wangyel biography

Obituary: Tshering Wangyel, widely considered to be the country’s most prolific and successful film director, passed away, yesterday.

He was

The director had been undergoing medical treatment in the intensive care unit in Thimphu for acute pneumonia, the past two weeks.

Born in , Tshering Wangyel was raised in Thimphu and from an early age, began to display indications of a future associated with films.

While he liked to take part in theatre, it was his attraction to cinema that would lead him to a movie that would carve his path.

Tshering Wangyel would bunk classes to watch Bollywood films being screened at Thimphu’s only cinema at the time, the Lugar theatre.

It would be there that he would watch Gasa Lamai Singye and be inspired to later quit his government job and direct his first film, Rewaa in

Today, he leaves behind at least 50 full-length feature films from his 16 year career as a director.

His filmography even includes a second part to the movie that ins