Teacher's Day Special: Bollywood Actors And Their Gurus Who Mentored Them To Reach Incredible Milestones
This Teacher's Day, we curate stories to reveal how many well-known film and theatre actors serendipitously met the right teacher at the right time and the profound impact this relationship had on their personal and professional journey.
Bollywood Actors With Their Mentors
Some of the greatest acting teachers including Ebrahim Alkazi, Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Konstantin Stanislavsky empowered their famous pupils to accomplish exactly this. Alkazi's students include film and theatre stalwarts like Vijaya Mehta, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, and Rohini Hattangadi and he is still remembered for transforming the National School of Drama (NSD) into a training ground for future icons. This Teacher's Day, we curate stories to reveal how many well-known film and theatre actors serendipitously met the right teacher at the right time and the profound impact this relationship had on their personal and professional journey.
Makarand Deshpande and Aahana Kumra
The two have worked together for close to a decade on the immensely popular teleplay 'Sir Sir Sarla'. The Makarand Deshpande directorial also has him playing the lead role of a beloved professor opposite Aahana Kumra who plays Sarla, a young woman who has deep feelings for him but is steered by him towards a safer choice.