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The United States most prestigious acting school will be opening its branches in India, with hopes that they can help discover new generations of talent.
“The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute India” is scheduled to open in the country’s entertainment capital, Mumbai, by next June.
Another school will be set up in Hyderabad, which has one of the country’s best-equipped shooting and production centres for both Hindi-language and other regional language films.
‘I’m sure internationally there will be some kind of understanding that India now has a Lee Strasberg Institute. That will have a psychological impact on people,’ Rahul Rawail told.
‘It will be taken a little more seriously”, he adds.
Lee Strasberg, who was nominated for the Oscar for his role as Jewish mobster Hyman Roth in ‘The Godfather Part II,’ had set up a school for the performing arts in 1969 after years of association with the Actors Studio in New York.
Rahul Rawail, who began his career in Bollywood as an assistant director in the 1970s, wants students to watch one film every day from around the world.
“Courses range from 18 months to intensive six-to-12-week sessions, where aspiring actors could be joined by more established names in the business. Fees will be ‘competitive’ with other acting schools already in India”, Rahul Rawail said.
Rahul Rawail believes that India has got lot of acting talent and gave example of actor-producer-director Aamir Khan, ‘”The level of acting in India is very good,’ he said.
