Gurcharan Channi

Gurcharan Channi is a Punjabi Actor. Gurucharan Channi was born on 19th October 1951, in India. Gurcharan Channi was encouraged by Gargi to join National School of Drama in Delhi with Abraham Alkari as Director. Passing out of NSD, Channi chose the city of Chandigarh as his playground for street theatre and took students from the city College of Arts and staging excellent productions such as Daffa 144 and Disturbed Area. Gurcharan Channi is known as a Dynamic Artist. Gurcharan Channi, as an Actor, worked in movies such as Gandhi (1992), Thes (1985), The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002), Punjab 1984 (2014), Shareek (2015), and Sajjan Singh Rangroot (2018). Gurcharan Channi’s insightful and well-researched film is Dharmakshetra Kurukshetra.

Gurcharan Channi works like Main Jala di Jaungi had taken a hard look at gender violence and dowry deaths, while Mera Bharat Mahan unraveled the world of corruption and Khuli Hawa Ki Talaash Mein raised concerns about Ecology and Environment. Gurcharan Channi believed in going miles before Gurcharan Channi rested and worked as a Television Producer with Jalandhar Doordarshan, making innovative programs and telefilms based on Punjabi Literature. Gurcharan Channi became a Professor at The Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Gurcharan Channi had set up the NGO Centre for Education and Voluntary Action(CEVA) in Chandigarh, India.

Gurcharan Channi received Sangeet Natak Akademi’s National Award for Community Theatre, and Gurcharan Channi Served as Chairman of Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi. Gurcharan Channi was a Fulbright Scholar at the Boston University College of Communication. Gurcharan Channi died on 20th May 2021 in Chandigarh, India, due to Complications from COVID-19.