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 co-founded Tamasha Entertainment with Rajul Khare 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 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.
Rajul co-founded Tamasha with Deepankar, and brought a classroom instinct to it: if theatre can give a nervous student their voice back, it can do the same for a room of managers.
He has trained more than a lakh B-school aspirants over fourteen years, and cleared the CAT fourteen times himself — 99+ percentile every year. He prepares candidates for interviews and group discussions using theatre, helping them find confidence and presence in a room. On the production side, he has staged Macbeth across ten shows in Delhi NCR and produced the short film Three's a Couple.
He picks up a new hobby every year. Currently tennis and classical singing — with marathons in between.
Satish writes what happens in the room — the scripts, the skits, the exercises a cohort actually walks through.
A decade on stage across Delhi NCR in Macbeth, Hamlet and Tughlaq, with lead roles in Daddy in Doubt and Kiki, Do You Love Me; on screen in the web series Murder in Mahim and the upcoming film Dear Husband. For PayU he turned all ten corporate behaviours into skits, each one dramatising that behaviour's real effect on a team.
He also spent fifteen years inside corporate quality assurance — banking, finance, e-commerce. He has lived the problems he now writes into scenes.
Kakul makes the work travel — inbound, strategy, and everything Tamasha puts out into the world.
A B.Tech and an MBA, she has moved between enterprise B2B sales, strategy consulting and founder's-office roles across India and the UAE: at Delphi Consulting she worked on the CEO's team on engagements across healthcare, media and government; before that at Dotdash Meredith, the parent company of Investopedia and People.
She reads the Instagram algorithm the way other people read a spreadsheet. A marathoner and a photographer — and once, as a child, a voice-over artist for Disney.
