It still does. We just have more of them now — and a few of them have HR directors and CFOs sitting in the front row.
Whether it's a five-day residential or a 30-second corporate film, the work either rehearses well or it doesn't. We rehearse.
We measure ourselves by what's different the Monday after. A workshop that doesn't change Monday is a workshop that didn't happen.
We borrow from improv, Boal, the Royal Shakespeare Company, McKinsey, IDEO, Bollywood. None of it is original. All of it is ours.
Deepankar founded Tamasha Entertainment to do what classroom training and slideware could never do: change behaviour through the body, the voice, and the story.
A theatre director and applied-theatre facilitator, he has directed K. Madavane's Macbeth in Hindi, produced the short film Three's a Couple, and built Theatre Effects into a corporate-training practice trusted by Amazon, PayU, ITC, AVON, L&T, Marico, and MDI.
Based in Gurgaon, working across India. He still teaches a Tuesday-evening improv class. Most of the company started there.
