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Indian teacher of acting

Roshan Taneja (1931 - 10 May 2019) was a pioneer in teaching acting in India. He set up the acting department at the Film and Television Institute of India, and founded the Roshan Taneja School of Acting in Mumbai, India. He coached several actors from the Indian film industry.

He also wrote and directed the Hindi film Abhi To Jee Lein (1977).

Roshan Taneja School of Acting

Early life and career

Taneja's family migrated from Kulachi, in the North Western Frontier Province (now in Pakistan) to Kanpur, India, where his father worked in a sugar mill. After the partition of India, his family settled in Lucknow, and he went to study at Delhi University. After graduating, he went to study acting in New York under a scholarship.

He trained under director Sydney Pollack and Sandford Meisner at the Neighbourhood Playhouse School of Theatre, and learned method acting.^[1][2][3]

He returned to India and set up the acting department at the Film Acting Guru Roshan Taneja Dies At 87, Anil Kapoor, Anupam ... RURO