Rangshila Theatre Group – A Best Acting Drama School/Classes In Mumbai was formed on 18th January 2008 with a vision to promote theatre to every nook and corner and make a stable balance between the art form and commerce.
Most of us tend to believe that art serves no necessary function. It is not utilitarian and cannot be linked to any essential activity. We cannot eat it, drive it, wear or drink it. However, art reminds us that we are not alone in this universe and share a universal human experience. It is the art that makes us feel emotions, process new experiences, find connections and create impact.
Rangshila Theatre Group is acclaimed as one of the best acting schools in Mumbai. With more than 500+ performances over 150 different venues, Rangshila Theatre Group has trained around 2000 theatre enthusiasts. Rangshila Theatre Group has performed in one of the most well-known theatre festivals, including the prestigious Bharat Rang Mahotsav organized by the National School of Drama.
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Rangshila Theatre Group has directed more than 250 corporate plays and around 500 Stage productions. Some of the most famous plays created by Rangshila and performed in famous avenues like Prithvi Theatre, NCPA, G5 Black Box Theatre and Mukti Cultural Hub include Refund, Teesveen Shatabdi, The Great Raja Master Drama Company, Sur vs Asur, The Sunset in the East, Bahut Bada Sawal, Geet Gaan Gaatha, Ishq Ke Bahane Chand Afsane, Is Desh ka Yaaro Kya Kehna, among many others.
Rangshila is not just a mere training ground for aspiring artists but a setting where artists passionate about acting and direction are provided with a stage to showcase their work. Our priority is to teach students to be better humans, so the entire process of becoming a good actor gets easy and transparent.
About the founder
I, Avneesh Mishra, founder of Rangshila Theatre Group, was born and brought up in the small town of Gorakhpur. My journey with ‘Natak’ started when I was in class 5th, where I would participate in plays, debates, and annual functions. In around 1988, when I was about 14 years old, I started writing a few stories with friends, booking the performance area, and selling tickets. The purpose, which was unclear then, was to make people pay to see the ‘artists’ perform so the art doesn’t go unvalued.
The next step towards the ‘natak’ journey started when I left Gorakhpur and moved to Kanpur as soon as I completed my schooling. The word theatre hasn’t been used purposely because when I started, there used to be only nukkad nataks(street plays) and ekanki(one-act play). The only theatre we knew was the jam-packed cinema halls on a new Amitabh Bachhan film.
Like most of us, I was also pushed into college to pursue a degree in Science. In those days, Kanpur had a large and famous theatre group called Darpan. I remember standing there and seeing the actors perform for the first ten days or so because I couldn’t gather enough courage to ask the director to take me in. After regular visits, the director finally came up to me, asked me who I was, and offered me ‘chai’. I very dearly remember the first sip of the theatre that I wanted to be associated with, and I somewhat believe that this might be one of the reasons why we incorporated tea in the Rangshila logo.
‘Natthu Darji’ of the play ‘Ek tha Gadha urf Alladad khan’ was the first character I played, and I accepted the script with shaky hands and teary eyes. How that happened is a story for some other day. After spending some time in Kanpur, I moved to Bharatendu Natya Academy, Lucknow, in 2001. I accepted my diploma from this institution and then went to Film and Television Institute(FTII) for a Film Orientation course. I moved to Bombay in 2005, where I directed a few plays and grabbed many roles and advertisements for television and films. But as they say, you go where the heart goes. My love and passion for theatre brought me to teach actors for free until I opened my first workshop class.
It was 6th October 2012, when I started taking workshops under the banner ‘Parados to Stage.’ But here, I have a little story to tell. During these years, I went to Theatre Freiburg, Germany, to perform for a play called ‘# Supernova’, written by Raghav Rai and directed by Abhishek Majumdar. It was a collaboration of four countries, and the play taught me that the Indian culture if presented rightly through a form of art, leaves a vast and rich impact on the foreign audience.
Our Motivation
Rangshila Theatre Group was solely opened with the intention of making a balance between art and commerce. The balance should be so stable that one should not look down upon the theatre artists, and the art sustains itself to flourish. The vision was and is still very clear, ‘to make theatre reach to every nook and corner so people can understand the richness of this art form.’
Facilities at Rangshila
- Our studio is located in Mumbai with easy access to public transport.
- A well-equipped library for study and researching.
- An in-house pantry that serves the best coffee & tea.
- Modern designed Studio for conducting classes, rehearsals and performances.
- Only theatre in Mumbai providing Lifetime Membership Access
- The workshop are purely Production Oriented Theatre Acting Course
- Trained NSD & BNA faculties
About the Acting Course
At Rangshila students are offered workshops over a period of 3 months with plenty of creativity involved, teaching them world class performance techniques and styles.
This program offers students to learn acting under the expert faculty guidance to meet the acting requirements for performances on a live stage or an audition.
Tea and Theatre
There is a saying, ‘Maine dekha hi nai koi mausam, maine chaha hai tumhe chai ki tarah’ that nearly translates to ‘I haven’t acknowledged the weather, I have loved you like tea.’ This is what Rangshila Theatre Group knows best. When you become a part of our family, you get two things in their absolute entirety, the art of performing and chai.
Rangshila Theatre Group is one of the best acting schools in Mumbai that teaches you the essential terms and advances of being an actor and an entertainer like voice modulation, body language, diction, speech and so forth. To be a great artist, it is important to be touched from within. We at Rangshila not just help you become a good actor but a superior human being. We have a total of 6 faculty members who help you get into the skin of the characters that you are portraying through various exercises and unique teaching styles.
We understand the importance of music in this particular art form, and we train actors in a way that opens up and activates all their senses through exercises, music, and of course the craft. Also, once you have enrolled on our institute, you can stay connected with us for as long as you want without paying an extra dime.
Workshop Duration
- 5 Week Intensive Theatre Acting Workshop (Online)
- 4.5 Months Production Oriented Theatre Acting Workshop (In Studio)
About Acting Syllabus
1. Physical strengths
2. Hand gestures
3. Facial expressions
4. Voice Modulation, Diction and Projection
5. 5Ws of Acting
6. Improvisations
7. Monologue Writing
8. How to prepare for Auditions
9. Difference between Theatre Acting and Camera Acting
10. Characterization
11. Script Analysis
12. Breaking the Script
And much More…
Medium of Instructions
At Rangshila the course is primarily conducted in the Hindi language. However all our faculties understand and speak English fluently. The acting tools & techniques taught at Rangshila are universally applicable.
What Rangshilities say about us…
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