Maharashtra Tourism
Get a glimpse of theater and entertainment in Maharashtra state of India.

Theatre in Maharashtra

Marathi theatre is alive because of good writers, dedicated directors and an admiring audience. The Maharashtra directors are innovative and able to play risk. Unlike other regional theatres, Marathi theatre doesn't carry away with adaptations and translations from other languages. Maharashtrian audience doesn't look theatre just as an entertainment medium; it is more of a tradition in this state.

Theatre workshops are organized from time to time to encourage budding artistes. Satyadev Dubey, Mahesh Elkunchwar, G.P Deshpande, Achyut Vaze, Shafad Khan, Chetan Datar, Rajeev Naik and Prashant Dalvi are some of the well-known theatre activists of Maharashtra.

Tamasha, which was emerged in 16th century, is the principal form of folk theatre of Maharashtra. Entertainment, serious propaganda and devotion are the three basic elements of tamasha. Song-dance troupe and folk-drama troupe are the two types of troupe of this form of folk theatre.

Film And Television Institute of India, Pune

Training on acting, direction, cinematography, film script writing, editing are given in this premiere institute. This government institute is one of the five prestigious film schools across the globe.

This Film Institute has given the Indian film industry some of the best known acting talents in the country like - Naseeruddin Shah, Shabhana Azmi, Om Puri, Rameshwari, Jaya Bahaduri, Danny Dengzongpa, Mithun Chakraborty, Shatrugan Sinha, Raza Murad, Kiran Kumar, Shakti Kapoor, Uday Chandra, Satish Shah, Rakesh Bedi, Suresh Chatwal, Sudhir Pandey, Rit Rani Kaul and many more.