Bharat Rang Mahotsav

Bharat Rang Mahotsav
Genre	Theatre
Dates	Third week of January
Location(s)	New Delhi
Years active	1999 – present
Founded	1999
Patron(s)	National School of Drama
Website
Official website

Bharat Rang Mahotsav (भारत रंग महोत्सव) (BRM) or the National Theatre Festival, established in 1999, is the annual theatre festival of National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, India's premier theatre training institute of Govt. of India. Founded to show case works of Indian theatre practitioners, it has grown over the year to attract international performers as well.

The 2009 Festival featured 63 productions, out of which 51 are from India and 12 are overseas plays, over a span of 12 days. Today it is acknowledged as the largest theatre festival of Asia, dedicated solely to theatre 15 th bharat rang mahotsav

The festival is generally held during the second week of January each year at venues in and around NSD campus, and also in a one "showcase city", where a "Satellite Festival" of Bharat Rang Mahotsav is held. For example, in 2009, the venue Lucknow, saw 18 productions, in 2010 the venue was Bhopal.

1st BRM: The first ever all-Indian theatre festival, Bharat Rang Mahotsav 1999, opened on 18 March in New Delhi, with staging of Girish Karnad's play Nagamandala (Hindi) directed by Amal Allana. Held during the tenure Ram Gopal Bajaj as NSD Director, the festival also featured Calcutta-based Nandikar group's solo act Meghnad Badh Kavya (Bengali) written by Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Girish Karnad's Agni aur Barkha (Hindi) directed by Prasanna, Ajneya's Uttar Priyadarshi (Manipuri) directed by Ratan Thiyam and Himmat Mai (Hindi), an adaptation of Brecht's Mother Courage, and plays in several Indian languages, including Tamil, Malayalam, Assamese, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Dogri and Bhojpuri. A silent performance of Shakespeare's Othello, with only a few "sounds" in Arabic, directed by Teofik Jebali from Tunisia was only foreign entry.

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