The National School of Drama (NSD) is organising its flagship Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM), International Theatre Festival of India, which completed a successful run of 25 years in 2024. Fondly called ‘Bharangam’, BRM is the world’s largest theatre festival, and is set to take place from 1 February 2025 to 8 February, 2025 in Bengaluru.
In collaboration with Karnataka Nataka Academy the festival will flag off in the city with an inauguration ceremony on February 1, 2025, at 6:00 PM at Kalagrama Auditorium featuring the play A Friend beyond the Fence.
BRM 2025, which spans a period of 20 days, from January 28, 2025 to February 16, 2025, will feature more than 200 unique productions from 9 different countries apart from India, showcased across 11 locations in India and 2 abroad, which are Kathmandu and Colombo. International theatre groups participating in the said festival are hailing from Russia, Italy, Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Nepal, Taiwan, Spain, and Sri Lanka.
NSD is expanding the festival’s outreach with enhanced international engagement, building on last year’s theme ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, Vande Bharangam.’
“One Expression, Supreme Creation,” is the slogan for Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2025, which resonates with the spirit of unity in creative expression, and the oneness of all. Noted actor and NSD alumnus Sh. Rajpal Yadav has been named the Rang Doot (Festival Ambassador) for this year.
Alongside the festival’s epicentre in Delhi, Indian satellite locations include Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bathinda, Bhopal, Goa, Gorakhpur, Jaipur, Khairagarh and Ranchi including Bengaluru.
NSD’s Flagship Festival Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2025 to Feature Many Firsts including theatre with various disenfranchised communities including: Santhal Tribes (marking 150th birth anniversary of Birsa Munda); Sex Workers; Transgender persons; Senior Citizens; and Children.
