Naseeruddin Shah wants regional drama schools to be promoted in preference to mega institutes like the National School of Drama (NSD) that fail to churn out active theatre artists.
Speaking with candour, Naseer, an NSD product and widely considered one of the finest and versatile stage and cinema actors, said “big drama schools” fail to apprise their students of the reality of taking their craft beyond the four walls of the training institutes. In a dog-eat-dog world out there, very few graduates make the cut, he said.
“The vibrant regional theatre needs to be encouraged rather than creating a big institution like NSD with thousand crores of rupees and that does grand productions and makes their students incapable of doing theatre once they leave the place,” Naseeruddin told us in an interview.
“That’s the tragic fact about NSD…the percentage of students who are actually doing theatre is very small because they are used to that kind of well-subsidized situation. Once they go out and see the reality of the situation they can’t do any theatre,” he added.
Theatre literacy, according to him, can help regional theatre flourish. Read more on msn.
Naseeruddin Shah: Need regional drama schools, not NSDs
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