Brigitte Truong
A&E Reporter
The director of a new Bollywood acting school is encouraging students of South Asian decent to sign up.
“If you have a dream of Bollywood and you want to pursue that dream, you can come to us for a platform to hone your talent,” said Lucky Sandra.
The school, located near the Toronto-Mississauga line, near North Campus, is taking applicants for its second term on the 26th.
As senior adviser of the South Asian Alliance — a club made up of both Humber and Guelph-Humber students — third-year business administration student Pritav Singh-Nspire, 20, said he thinks there’s a demand for this type of school.
One of the largest clubs on campus with 350 members, the student-organized alliance performs in a Bollywood-style culture show every year.
“For the past five years, we have put on a culture show where 15 universities from all over Ontario come together and put on dance performances at the Hershey Centre,” said Singh-Nspire.
He said these dance performances help students showcase their acting abilities and some of the judges have experience in Bollywood films.
Sandra said that acting and dancing are a consistent combination in the industry.
“Students in the culture show would benefit from Bollywood acting training, We have dance as a good part of our program,” he said.
“In dance, it’s not just doing the steps. You have to have that flow within you, the facial expressions and know how to lip synch. Song is a musical dialogue, it’s poetry made of words.”
Sandra’s four-month program teaches students how to execute their dialogue and perfect their body movements in a way different from Hollywood acting.
“We are more into getting the natural abilities out of a person, that way it looks nice and genuine on the screen,” he said.
Director of Lakeshore’s film and TV program, John Bourgeois, said there is a market for the Indian acting school.
“Bollywood is the second largest film industry in the world . . .” said Bourgeois.
“There are Indo-Canadian filmmakers like Deepa Mehta and other Mehta’s currently making movies in Toronto.”
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