Anupam Kher to set up Chandigarh acting school 
By IndiaFM News Bureau, January 6, 2007 - 12:30 IST
The actor recently made news for getting a golden chance to work with director Ang Lee in Lust, Caution. And now, he has hit the headlines yet again with his tie-up with Chandigarh Tourism to launch an acting school there.
The acting school will be on the lines of the one he had set up in Mumbai two years ago. The acting institute would be the first of its kind in this region after Delhi. It would cater to students from Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Classes are likely to start in April for the one-year course.
Apparently, this idea was suggested by none other than Yash Chopra, who is the chairman of the city's advisory committee for setting up a film city here. To implement this, an agreement will be signed between Anupam Kher's Actor Prepares Company and The Society for Tourism and Entertainment Promotions (STEPS) later this month.
Kher was a student of The Department of Indian Theatre in Punjab University here nearly three decades ago. Now he has decided to give back to the place that made him the actor he is today.
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