A competitive exam to become an actor?? - Page 4

Originally posted by: Dhaa-Ki-Tiki

Then all the film families will get out of their swanky high rises and do this at the exam centre...

In this photograph taken on March 19, 2015, relatives of students taking school exams climb the walls of the exam building to help pass candidates answers to questions in Bihar's Vaishali. (Agence France-Presse)

Originally posted by: Angel-likeDevil

No no.. sorry but in my OP I never said it was to be a government entity(the Commission), I was just making a reference at UPSC.

And the Indian Acting Servants thing was a joke.

Originally posted by: bigul

plz dont say sorry. 😊

why would producers allow any independent commission to decide anything related to their movies? after all its their money which is at risk when they make a movie. all these artist, actor, art stories these actors talk about is secondary. first thing is Bollywood is business . period! nepotism has no end. life is unfair but thats the reality.

Originally posted by: pallavi25

The Film and Television Institute in Pune was just such an institution to teach acting and take exams of film and technical filmmaking students.

In the 70s and 80s many distinguished alumni of FTII enriched the silver screen with their presence and many of the best talented directors we have today are all FTII graduates

Here is a list of FTII actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Jaya Bhaduri, Mithun Chakravarty, Shatrughan Sinha, Tom Alter, Smita Patil, Danny Denzongpa, Rajat Kapoor, Navin Nishchol, and more recently... Rajkummar Rao

List of FTII trained directors: Rajkumar Hirani, Subhash Ghai, Shyam Benegal, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Prakash Jha, Ketan Mehta,

The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India.^[1] It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile Prabhat Film Company in Pune. Since its inception in 1960, FTII has become India's premier film and television institute, with its alumni becoming technicians, actors and directors in the film and television industry.

Originally posted by: Justmoi

It already exists. It's called an audition. 😛

In HW for instance that is how it works most of the time. They send out requirements and you go and audition. You land the part if you are good. That is how people like Lupita Nyongo landed an Oscar winning part straight out of drama school. That is how the system is supposed to work.

Only in BW are people given a career because Mommy or Daddy were good. 🤔

Originally posted by: Angel-likeDevil

Ideally that is what should happen na..

But I guess human politics is something that cannot be controlled, and like bigul has said, it is primarily a business..