The National Academy of Performing Arts ( ur, ; abbreviated as NAPA) is a
performing arts
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school located at
Hindu Gymkhana Hindu Gymkhana may mean:
* Hindu Gymkhana, Karachi, a gymkhana in Karachi
* Hindu Gymkhana, Mumbai, a gymkhana in Mumbai
* Hindu Gymkhana, Pune, a gymkhana in Pune
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in
Karachi
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,
Sindh
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,
Pakistan
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. NAPA was established in 2005 as an institution to conserve and teach performing arts and music.
Departments
; Music : At NAPA, the students of music derive benefit from being taught by a faculty consisting of practicing musicians, musicologists and visiting maestros. They will also have the opportunity to enrich their repertoire of compositions and styles by tutelage under many teachers.
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; Theatres Arts : The Theatre Arts department will offer students academic courses in all aspects of the theatre as well as practical exploration and the opportunity to present their work before an audience.
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; Make up : NAPA has also introduced lessons in Make up.
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Faculty
Chairman
Zia Mohyeddin
Zia Mohyeddin (; born 20 June 1931) is a British-Pakistani actor, producer, director and television broadcaster who has appeared in both Pakistani cinema and television as well as in British cinema and television throughout his career.
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is the current Chairman of NAPA.[ He was asked by ]Pervez Musharraf
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, then the President of Pakistan
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, he has spent a lifetime dedicated to the theatre, films and television, appearing in many local and foreign productions. He has also performed in numerous Broadway
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
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and West End plays. He has also produced and directed extensively.
Notable teachers
Arshad Mehmood, Director Programmes and Administration.[
Besides Mohyeddin and Mahmud, NAPA has some of the most well known theatre icons and teacher-performances in ]Asia
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, including:
* Talat Hussain[
* Head of Department Theatre Studies, curriculum consultant and founder of Napa Repertory Theatre
Rahat Kazmi is the ][
* ]Khalid Ahmed
Khalid Ahmed ( ur, خالد احمد) is a Pakistani TV director, producer and actor. He currently teaches theatre at National Academy of Performing Arts.(Rafay MahmoodKhalid Ahmed presents double bill at NAPA (National Academy of Performing A ...
(acting teacher)[NAPA inaugurates new Basement Playhouse]
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* Nafees Ahmad (sitar teacher)[NAPA music festival gets under way]
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* Bashir Khan (tabla teacher)[
* Salamat Hussain (Flute Teacher)
* Arsalan Pareyal (Guitar Teacher)
* Shehzad Ghias Shaikh
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Alumni
* Ahsan Shabbir, 1st Batch Singer and composer
* Araslan Pareyal, 5th Batch guitarist and composer
* Saqib Khan Saqib is the Persian pronunciation originally from the Arabic name, Thaqib (ثاقب ''thāqib''), is a masculine given name which means "influential notion of the well-chosen, the truthful".
Notable people with this name include:
* Saqib Ali (bor ...
1st batch theater arts
* Fawad Khan 1st batch theater arts
*Faisal Malik 1st batch theater arts
* Ali Rizvi 1st batch theater arts
* Akbar Islam
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1st batch theater arts
* Ather Abbas 1st batch theater arts
* Paras Masroor
Paras Masroor is a Pakistani theatre and television actor. Starting his career as a theatre actor, he moved on to television. He has played the role of Torah Khan in Momina Duraid's ''Sang-e-Mar Mar'' (2016) for which he received Hum Award for Bes ...
1st batch theater arts
* Maria Rabab
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* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
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*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
1st batch theater arts
* Rabab Hashim
Rabab Hashim is a Pakistani television actress and host. She made her acting debut with ''Na Kaho Tum Mere Nahi''. She has played a role of Rukhi in Hum TV's acclaimed series '' Zid''. She is also known for her leading roles in ''Piya Mann Bhay ...
1st batch theater arts
* Kashif Farhad
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When use ...
1st batch theater arts
* Mohsin Ali Shah
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Islamic term
I ...
1st batch theater arts
* Farhan Shah Farhan or Farhaan (Persian: فرحان ''farḥān'') is a name of Persian origin meaning "happy, joyful, blessed, happy, delightful, rejoicing, merry, inclined to hopefulness". The name is the male variant from the female stem given name Farah, an ...
1st batch theater arts
* Aiman Tariq
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1st batch theater arts
* Uroosa Siddiqi 1st batch theater arts
* Late Mohammad Saim 1st batch theater arts
* Fiza Zehra
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1st batch theater arts
* late Riaz
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1st batch theater arts
* Zeeshan Haider Nalwala 1st batch theater arts
* Syed Meesam Nazar Naqvi 2nd batch theater arts
Relocation
In December 2018, The Supreme Court of Pakistan
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Established in accordance to thePart VIIof the Constitution of Pakistan, it has ultimate a ...
had directed the Sindh government to shift NAPA
to another location from this Hindu Gymkhana building but, as of 11 February 2020, compliance to this directive could not be made and NAPA was still functioning there.
See also
* National College of Arts
The National College of Arts (colloquially known as NCA) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Overview
National College of Arts - A Federal Chartered Institute is the oldest art school in Pakistan and the second oldest i ...
* The Hindu Gymkhana
* Theatre of Pakistan
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* Music of Pakistan
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References
External links
National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA)
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2005 establishments in Pakistan
Pakistan federal departments and agencies
Universities and colleges in Karachi
Art schools in Pakistan
Dance schools in Pakistan
Film schools in Pakistan
Music schools in Pakistan
Arts in Pakistan
Buildings and structures in Karachi
British colonial architecture