About Tshering Wangyel
Lived 1971 – 2015 (aged 43–44). Tshering Wangyel was a film director.
Tshering Wangyel ( – 7 December 2015) was a Bhutanese film director. He directed more than 50 films and died of pneumonia while making his last film.
In 1999, he released the first movie in Dzongkha language, Rewaa (Hope), a love story where two college boy fall for the same girl. As one critic put it, "the commercial Bhutanese film industry was born." In 2007, he produced Bakchha, the first Bhutanese horror movie.
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Who was Tshering Wangyel?
Bhutanese film director
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Tshering Wangyel was born in 1971.
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Tshering Wangyel died on 7 December 2015.
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Tshering Wangyel was a film director.
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Tshering Wangyel's recorded nationality: Bhutan.
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