The Jamshed Bhabha Theatre is a 1109-seater theatre inaugurated on 24 November 1999 within The National Centre for the Performing Arts premises in

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, India. It has hosted & staged Indian epics and classical concerts to western operas and ballets. Besides the main auditorium, the theatre has three conference rooms, large foyer spaces and a museum. The acoustics of this theatre were designed to permit appreciation of individual instruments without any additional amplification. The theatre is home to a 100-year-old staircase in its foyer. The staircase was donated to the NCPA by the

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family. It was originally part of the Petit hall at

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, made of

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shipped from Italy. When the Petit hall was demolished, the staircase was dismantled and stored in a warehouse for forty years until it was re-assembled and added to the theatre's foyer. A new, permanent exhibition located in the foyer of JBT, which opened to the public on 16 May 2018, pays tribute to the life and legacy of Jamshed Bhabha. In 2016, the theatre hosted the first public shows of ''Mughal-e-Azam'', a

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-style

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directed by

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and jointly produced by

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and the

National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is a multi-venue, multi-purpose cultural centre in Mumbai, India, which aims to promote and preserve India's heritage of music, dance, theatre, film, literature and photography. It also presents ...

. The musical is based on the 1960

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film ''

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'', directed by

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and produced by Shapoorji Pallonji. In 2019, the theatre produced and premiered the

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whodunnit classic, ''

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'' directed by Melly Still, produced by

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, in a new version for an Indian audience by Ayeesha Menon, based on the adaptation by Rachel Wagstaff of the novel ''

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'', and starring

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and

Shernaz Patel Shernaz Patel is an Indian film and theatre actor, who works in Hindi and English films, most known for her roles in films like ''Black'' (2005) and '' Guzaarish'' (2010) and English language theatre in Mumbai. She made her theatre debut with ' ...

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Jamshed Bhabha Theater at the NCPA

History of NCPA
1999 establishments in Maharashtra Theatres in Mumbai Theatres completed in 1999 {{india-struct-stub

See also

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