Roshan Taneja

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Roshan Taneja (1931 - 10 May 2019) was a pioneer in teaching acting in India. He set up the acting department at the

Mumbai, India. He coached several actors from the Indian film industry. He also wrote and directed the Hindi film Abhi To Jee Lein
(1977).

Early life and career

Taneja's family migrated from

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

Bombay.[2]

At FTII, he directed the staff film Are We Doing All This? (1967) with Shatrughan Sinha on student life,[5] and the short film Ode To Youth (1971).[6]

He left FTII in 1975, and founded the Roshan Taneja School of Acting the following year.

Ajay Devgan.[10][1][3][11]

In 2009, his students honoured him by celebrating 45 years of his teaching career.[12] In 2017, FTII conducted an event "Guruvandana" in his honour.[13]

Taneja also wrote and directed the 1977 film Abhi To Jee Lein, and narrated the 1969 documentary film The Awakener. [10]

Personal life

He was married to Mithika and has two sons Rohit and Rahul. In 2017, he released his autobiography Moments of Truth: My Life with Acting, at an event "Guruvandana" at FTII.[1][13]

Bibliography

  • Moments of Truth: My Life with Acting, Roshan Taneja, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017,
    ISBN 9789386432179

References

  1. ^
    IndianExpress.com
    . 12 May 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b Satya Prakash (3 November 2017). "Review: Moments of Truth by Roshan Taneja". hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-9353055936
    .
  4. ISBN 978-9353054120
    .
  5. ISBN 978-9385609596
    .
  6. ^ "Student Films". ftii.ac.in. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  7. ^ The Himalayan Beacon. Vol. 15. Barun Roy. December 2015. p. 50.
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-9351940753
    .
  9. ISBN 978-9388322942
    .
  10. ^
    ISBN 9789386432179
    .
  11. ^ Joginder Tuteja (13 May 2019). "Roshan Taneja: The man behind many Bollywood faces". asianage.com. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  12. ^ "The man Bollywood calls 'sir'". rediff.com. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  13. ^ a b "Meet Bollywood superstar who comes from family of doctors... couldn't become compounder". hindustantimes.com. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2023.

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