About The Event
ACT Season 16
(February 22-28, 2026)
Various Venues in Delhi/NCR
The 16th edition of ACT – Atelier Campus Theatre Festival marks not just another year of performances but a reaffirmation of what theatre truly stands for: community, collaboration, and collective expression. ACT embraces the spirit of celebration—a celebration of voices, dissent, identities, stories, and the transformative power of coming together.
Atelier’s ACT Festival aka "Atelier’s Campus Theatre" Festival is the World’s Largest Campus Theatre fiesta. Started in 2007, this festival has witnessed more than 800 performances in the last 15 seasons.
In Season 16, we aim to achieve a bigger, better and diverse this year, from February 22-28, 2026.
Festival Curator
Kuljeet Singh
Festival Director
Mansi Grover
Festival Manager
Manjot Singh
Festival Advisor
Gaurav Suri
Name of the group: Ashwamedh
Name of the college : Netaji Subhash University Of Technology
Synopsis of the play:
BOMBAY is a psychological tragedy set in the golden yet crumbling world of 1950s Indian cinema. Once celebrated as the man who brought sound to films, filmmaker Anirudh Damodar now faces rejection, artistic decay, and a collapsing marriage. As his life begins to mirror the story of a tragic king from his own unfinished film, Anirudh must confront the ghost of his own creation.
Told through a circular, meta-theatrical structure, BOMBAY interweaves realism, poetry, music, and stylized performances rooted in Chhau movements. It moves between intimate domestic tension and mythic grandeur; between the chipped walls of the glittery world and the ruins of its glory.
At its core, BOMBAY is both a requiem for lost brilliance and a critique of cinema and art itself: the nostalgia that traps creators, the marketplace that defines taste, and the audience that demands genius but refuses to understand it. A cinematic play for the stage that reimagines the downfall of a filmmaker as the downfall of an era — of love, of art, and of self.
