The son of the soil, Sunil Palwal received this year’s National Bismillah Khan Yuva Sangeet Natak Academi Award in the field of Acting. He dedicated his award to Padmashree Balwant Thakur, Saurabh Shukla, and Jeff Goldberg on the auspicious day of Guru Purnima. Sunil was born and brought up in Katra but move to Jammu to pursue Bachelors from GGM Science College. Later, he moved to pursue mass communication from Delhi, before he got selected for a diploma course in Drama in Himachal Cultural Research Forum & Theatre Academy Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. He got himself enrolled in Films and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2008, where he got an opportunity to work under some of the finest actors and directors of India, like Naseeruddin Shah or Saurabh Shukla, Benjamin Gilani or Meeta Vasisht, Tom Alter or Rakesh Bedi. He started his silver screen career in 2013 on television with ’24’ Produced by Anil Kapoor and directed by Abhinay Deo. In 2014, his first ‘ Yeh Dil Ramta Jogi’ directed by Swaroop Kanchi came live. In 2017, he played an interesting character in Jolly LLB 2. He was featured in many tv shows like Prithvi Vallabh (Sony), Mahakumbh (Life OK), 24 (Sony), Rush (MTV), CID (Sony), Shapath (Life OK), Balika Vadhu (Colors), Sapne Suhane Ladakpan ke (Zee T.V), etc. His theatre work involves ‘An Ode to Wisdom’, ‘Clear’, ‘Gunhegaar’, ‘Rizwaan’. ‘Jaanch Padhtaal’, ‘Khamosh! Adaalat Jaari Hai’, ‘Mote Raam Ka Satyagrah’ etc. He has also been associated with theatre for a very long time which gave him the opportunity to star in the production of Barff (Saurabh Shukla) and Mughal-e-Azam (Feroz Abbas Khan). He received critical acclaim for his historical characters from all quarters. Presently, he is working on a series of shows ‘Pajama Party’ as a lead actor under the guidance of Atul Satya Kaushik. Sunil credits his success to family, friends and especially the Jammu region.
