Kala Kendra has been sponsoring the Inter Collegiate Drama Competition from the year 1951 under the pioneership and the devotional dedication of Shri. Navin Khandwala, the then Hon. Secretary of Kala Kendra, Shri Girish Munshi, the then Joint Secretary of Kala Kendra and Shri Adi Marzban, a Theatre icon of yesteryears.

This multi lingual competition has been instrumental in providing a platform to the students of various Colleges of Mumbai to exhibit and develop their theatrical talents. Every year new experiments are made in Direction, Set designing, Lights & Music and these exploits have enriched the professional as well as the amateur stage.

The valuable guidance and blessings of Kulpati Kanaiyalal Munshi and Smt. Lilavati Munshi, Shri Girish Munshi, Shri Pravinchandra V. Gandhi, Shri S. Ramakrishnanji, Shri Navin T. Khandwala, Shri Adi Marzban, Shri Ramesh Jamindar, Shri Giresh Desai and Shri Lalit Shah (Copwud), turned the competition in to Mumbai’s Biggest Theatrical Movement.

Leading Theatre T.V. & Film Stalwarts Who Have Been Part Of The Inter Collegiate Drama Competition

Legends like Vijay Anand, Rajesh Khanna, Upendra Trivedi, Akhtar Romani, Ashutosh Shastri, Arvind Trivedi, Prabodh Joshi, Baban Prabhu, Amjad Khan, Kantie Madia, Vijaya Mehta, Kader Khan, Kashinath Ghanekar, Habib Tanvir, Siraj Burmawala, Pravin Joshi, Vijay Kenkre, Farukh Mehta, Satyadev Dubey, Mahendra Kapoor, Giresh Desai, Ramesh Talwar, Krishna Shah, Kersy Katrak, R. D. Kamath, Jayant Savarkar, Zaidi, Damu Kenkre, Sudha Karmarkar, Ramesh Pawar, Lalita Kenkre, Mustaq Merchant, Imtiaz Khan, Arvind Deshpande, Sulbha Deshpande, Vijay Bhatt, Burjor Patel, Mujib Khan, Farshid Bharucha, and many more have shared Bhavans platform and they have given their best to Indian Theatre, TV & Cinema. The old left making place for the new enthusiastic caravan.

New generation talents, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Kedar Shinde, Mahendra Joshi, Deven Bhojani, Dayashankar Pandey, Vipul Shah, Prakash Kapadia, Rasika Joshi, Sanjay Chhel, Dimple Shah, Bharat Jadhav, Aatish Kapadia, Neeraj Vora, Kamlesh Mota, Dilip Rawal, Ninad Kamat, Dilip Joshi, Jamnadas Majithia (Jd), Chetan Datar, Pradeep Rane, Sharman Joshi, Uttara Damle, Anshumali Ruparel, Manoj Joshi, Paritosh Painter, Santosh Pawar, Shefali Shah, Ankush Chowdhary, Amee Trivedi, Ninaz Khodiaji, Sandip Kulkarni, Rajesh Joshi, Vikram Vatve and many other new comers have showcased their best talents at Bhavan Inter Collegiate Drama Competition and today their names hit the box-office.