Renowned theatre personality Prasanna has sought a full-fledged and autonomous theatre institute status for the Bengaluru Centre of the National School of Drama (NSD).
In a letter to the Minister of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi, he said, “This unfortunate centre (Bengaluru NSD centre) is languishing ever since it was set up in 2007. NSD Bengaluru centre was set up as a result of a glorious movement led by Kannada theatre activists, for many years, prior to 2007.”
Theatre is a language and culture-specific medium and can be treated as such. But, the unfortunate policy of “One Nation - One School” for theatre training had led to a peculiar situation wherein a non-Hindi student was, and still is, forced to learn Hindi, in order to learn acting in her/his language, he observed.
