Well known Thespian Director-Actor Lalit Behl passes away due to Covid-19

On Friday, Actor-director Lalit Behl aged 71 passed away due to Covid-19 related complications in New Delhi.

His son, filmmaker Kanu Behl confirmed the news to indianexpress.com. Kanu said, “He passed away today. He had Covid-19 for the last one week, and it was complicated by his medical history. He had a history of heart ailments, so it got more complicated. He was admitted to Apollo hospital in Delhi.”

• Soon after the news about Lalit Behl’s demise emerged online, several celebrities posted their condolences on social media.

Actress Sayani Gupta retweeted Actor Adil Hussain's tweet and wrote:

This is just horrid. So sorry @KanuBehl
We lost two incredible artists today!
Lalit Behl and Amit Mistry.
This just keeps getting worse. https://t.co/2l6eeKU97h

Screenplay writer Kanika Dhillon wrote on Twitter:

— Sayani Gupta (@sayanigupta) April 23, 2021

RIP #LalitBehl Ji 🙏. @KanuBehl prayers with the family.

— Kanika Dhillon (@KanikaDhillon) April 24, 2021

Lalit Behl is survived by his son Kanu Behl and wife Navnindra Behl.

Lalit Behl's Career

Lalit Behl started his career on stage. He formed a theatre group named Kapurthala in Punjab. He studied theatre and worked at Delhi’s National School of Drama, among other centres.

He later produced and directed several telefilms for Doordarshan, including Tapish, Aatish and Sunehri Jild and Happy Birthday. He also helmed TV serials like Mahasangram, Afsane, Ved Vyas Ke Pote, Khanabadosh, Viji and Sada-e-Vadi.

As an actor, Lalit Behl featured in several projects, including Mukti Bhawan, Titli, Amazon Prime Video’s Made In Heaven and Kangana Ranaut-Rajkummar Rao starrer Judgementall Hai Kya.

We at the Su-Niti News condole the demise of the Thespian artiste from the bottom of our heart.