Amit Aggarwal | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Theater is a place where the play is alive, the stories come in front of you with the actors who perform the right performance. Theater has lived up to the test of time in boundaries, age, culture, languages and stories, despite having a record of not having a platform to maintain actors financially. To celebrate this creative place, the theater enthusiast Amit Aggarwal is organizing an evening for Hindi Theater Practitioners on World Theater Day.
Amit, the founder of Bangalore Hindi Theater Community, says, “The city’s theater practitioners will fulfill their dreams for 2025 and share.” 45 -year -old theater enthusiasts of Sarjapur drowned in theater in Bangalore in 2005. “I have been active mainly in the Hindi theater. When I reached this place, there were hardly two or three groups which were in Hindi theater and about 10 to 15 doctors.
The Bangalore Hindi Theater community was established in 2012 with three theater groups, saying Amit says. “We have 50 active groups in the last few years and the community has more than 1,000 theater doctors.” The community kept growing, Amit says and hence it had objectives.
“It is no longer about networking between artists and groups, but is a place to help people coming to the city or who dream of starting a theater group or actor, who needs to find a group to work.”
In addition, the community also helps with stage props and costumes. “With the lack of large, storage spaces, we help groups to share props and costumes. This helps not only cuts the cost and time for presentations, but also opens the doors for collaborative interactions.” The Amit runs the community on its own, and provides these connections for free. He welcomes help on voluntary basis.
Being a theater practitioner himself for the last two decades, Amit says that he decided to start a community, not a theater group. “Bangalore has a lot of theater, but in the pockets spread in the city. By creating a theater community, it was important to do a cross-co-colored work, where an actor is not limited to just one group, but can work in groups.”
Amit says that the option to celebrate World Theater Day (27 March) on 29 March was a deliberate. “In Bengaluru with traffic and distance, we realized that the footfalls are reduced when events occur in the week.”
This is the fourth edition of the World Theater Day celebrations of the Bangalore Hindi Theater community. The first version was co-dominated by Kalguha, while 2023 and 2024 editions by Lahe Lahe. “I am grateful to all these people and now this is a non-commercial phenomenon as a Vayoma to offer us space and co-consequently.
Music and jam with artists | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Amit took the theater during his college days in Pune. Coming from the backdrop of an armed forces, Amit says that he traveled across the country with his parents during school and college days. “I hardly stayed in a place for more than a few years. It was only when I went to Bengloru 20 years ago that I decided to live.”
In addition to discussions and ideas -mantling and sharing works, the community also helps in bringing theater groups into the city and vice versa. “We help groups by spreading the word, marketing for them.”
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The World Theater Day -2025 ceremony begins at 3 pm, which begins with an update for 2025 and the Dreams in the Il Theater Scene. “Group heads and directors will share their works, discuss new projects, resolve issues, if any other day ends with a music jam, refreshments and collaborative works, we unite for our groups.
The World Theater Day celebrations of the Bangalore Hindi Theater community will be held on March 29 at 3 pm, Voda Artsspace and Studio, JP Nagar.
Published – March 26, 2025 09:35 AM IST
