Bollywood acting program offered at Toronto college
Students must audition for the 16-week program, which costs C$9,000 for Canadians and C$13,000 for international students. The program is approved by Ontario's Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities, and its first students will graduate in April. Graduates are guaranteed membership in the Senior Artists Association, a film trade union in Mumbai.
The program director, Lucky Sanda, is a former child actor who appeared in several Bollywood films, including Do Anjaane (1976) and Mein Tulsi Tere Angan Ki (1978), before moving to Canada in 1992.
The Canadian Institute of Management and Technology also offers diplomas in business and technology programs. The college is located in Mississauga, part of the greater Toronto area.
About 300,000 Indians live in Toronto—about 12 percent of the population—making them the largest minority ethnic group in the city.
Toronto is set to become the first North American city to host one of Bollywood’s major awards ceremonies, the International Indian Film Academy Awards, from June 16-19, 2011. The event, which honors artistic and technical achievement in the Hindi film industry, takes place in a different city outside of India every year in an effort to promote Hindi cinema around the world.
For more information about CIMT’s Bollywood acting program, visit www.bollywoodacting.com or email bollywoodacting@cimtcollege.com.
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