Dubbing

Voice Work

Voice - Over

• Recorded about a dozen Radio spots for Dubai Radio.
• Lent his voice for the ad of STATE BANK OF INDIA as well as Agarwal Packers and Movers, both telecast on major television channels.
• Gave voice-over for National Dairy Development Board's promotional film on milk titled "Piyo Glassful Doodh".
• Lent voice for a number of Joyce Meyer Ministries books, Documentaries on NIRD, AOC, APGENCO etc, and a number of other short, corporate and promotional films.
• Introductory voice in the Golconda Sound and Light show.

Vinay Varma has held acting, voice and body language workshops at Sutradhar since 1999, and has identified and trained more than a hundred talents, some of whom have gone on to become successful actors, some have won accolades for their short films, some do regular voice-overs and dubbing for feature films, ad-films and documentaries, and some are assisting big-time film directors. However, all of them retain their loyalty towards theatre.

Vinay Varma has held multiple acting workshops for corporates over the years.

- A workshop for Satyam in 2004. 

- A workshop for middle and senior executives for ITC in 2009. 

- A production-oriented workshop for Thomson Reuters in 2010. 

- A `Training the Trainer` workshop for platform skills for Sujana Group in 2013. 

- A short workshop for the employees of Cognizent in March 2013. 

- A short workshop for female HR executives as part of the `Women`s Day` celebrations in Novotel in March 2014. 

- A production-oriented acting workshop for members for the Institute of Indian Interior Designers in May 2015, to celebrate their anniversary. 

- Theatre workshop (February, 2017) for project Bright Spark, Youngistaan (an NGO) which works for underprivileged children.  

- He has also taught a Certificate Course in Acting for students of St. Joseph's Degree and PG College, Hyderabad in March(2015), October (2015) and January - February(2017).

- He worked as an adjunct faculty to teach "Directing the Actor" program for AIFSM, at CCRT for students of film making in 2012.

- `Bacchha Bollywood` is a series of workshops about all the facets of filmmaking - acting, music, dance, scriptwriting and film appreciation - for children, organized by Buzzaar, from Bombay. Vinay Varma overlooked the assignation of teachers for each workshop in May 2016, and taught the acting workshop to children aged 5-15, over two batches, resulting in individual productions.

-  In May 2017, he conducted a theatre workshop at Kompally, Hyderabad, for over 90 students hailing from Gujarat State.

Vinay Varma's first performance was on 14th September 1980 with the play "Coffee House Mein Intezaar", directed by Dr. D. K. Goel. 

Other plays in university were - 

- "Interview", directed by Dr. D. K. Goel
- "Inspector Matadeen Chand Par", written by Harishankar Parsai, and directed by Tej Rajinder Singh
- "Teen" (Hindi for 3), an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek's 'Out at Sea', directed by Tej Rajinder Singh
- "Mahatma", a family drama, directed by Lingam Pandu
- "Tambe ke Keede", written by Bhuvaneshwar Prasad, directed by Venu Gopal
- "Aage Aage Premchand, Peeche Peeche Hum", as part of the centenary celebrations for Premchand, directed by Venu Gopal
- "Cyclewalla", directed by Venu Gopal
- "Brecht ke Laghu Natak", directed by Venu Gopal

Under the direction of his guru Professor Bhaskar Shewalkar, Vinay acted in -


- "Room No. 13, Block No. 14" in 1983.
- "Krapp's Last Tapes" - a 70 minute monologue written by Samuel Beckett, and translated by Vijay Ahluwalia, in 1985-1986. 
- "Stronger than Superman", written by Roy Kift, in 1998-89.
- "Guddi Pappu aur Munna", in 1987.
- "Aarop", in 1985 and 2002.
- "Prastaav" - a Hindi adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 'The Proposal', in 1983-84.
- "Nathuram Godse", in 2004 and 2007.

Vinay's foray into direction began with "Rehearsal" in 1980.

He went on to directing the following - 

- "Prastaav" and "Uttarardh" in Marathi, in Nashik, in 1990 and 1991. 
- "Phandi", his first direction for Rangadhara - The Theatre Stream, in 1993.
- "Ballabhpur ki Roopkatha", written by Badal Sarkar, and for Rangadhara - The Theatre Stream, in 1995. 

After forming Sutradhar, the theatre group and casting house in Hyderabad, Vinay directed the following - 
 
- "Kisi Ko Toh Jaana Hoga", written by Subhash Parkhi & translated by Anant Kulkarni, in 1998 & 2000. 
- "Saiyyan Bhaye Kotwal", originally the famous Marathi folk play 'Vichha Majhi Puri Kara' written by Vasant Sabnis, and later translated into Hindi by Usha Banerjee, in 2000. 
- "Budh Kaam Shudh", written by I. S. Johar, in 2001. 
- "Haye Mera Dil" in 2002.
- "Kisi Aur Ka Sapna", written by Nand Kishore Acharya, in 2005. 
- "Vicharon ka Achar", written by Professor G. Shankara Pillai, in 2005. 
- "The Ants", originally a Malayalam play 'Orukootam Urumbukal' written by Professor G. Shankara Pillai, in 2005.
- "Room No. 13, Block No. 14", written by Shrikant Sreekar, in 2005. 
- "Atmahatya ki Dukaan", written by Asha Varma, in 2006. 
- "Uttararddha", translated by Anant Kulkarni from the Marathi original of the same name by Vijay Mondkar, in 2007. 
- "Neem Hakeem Khatra-e-jaan", translated and adapted by Niyati Sureliya from Arthur Moliere's "Physician in spite of Himself", in 2007. 
- "Ek Se Badhkar Ek", written by S. Parthasarthy, in 2008. 
- "Gandhari", written by Dharmavir Bharti, in 2009. 
- "The Trial of Polly Baker", written by Benjamin Franklin, in 2009. 
- "On Vacation", written by Sachin Kundalkar, in 2009. 
- "Voids, Spaces & Borders" - an ensemble of 3 short performances, consisting of 'Dramatic Space' by Theo Lesoualch, 'Kisi Seema Ki Ek Mamooli Si Ghatna' by Sagar Sarhadi, and 'Avoid the Void' by Shivani Tibrewala - in 2010. 
- "Sita Apaharan Case", written by Dr. Prem Janmejay, in 2010.
- "This Is Nathuram Godse Speaking" which went on to being "Godse...An Assasin Speaks", written by Pradeep Dalvi, in 2010. 
- "Isoceles Triangle", written by Dr. C. H. Phansalkar, in 2011.
- "Bhoot", written by Prakhya Sriram Murthy, in 2011.
- "Birjees Qadar ka Kunbaaa", adapted and translated by Dr. Raghuvir Sahay from Federico Garcia Lorca's 'The House of Bernarda Alba', in 2012. 
- "Ismat - Ek Aurat", a collection of stories written by Ismat Chughtai, in 2013. 
- "Mah Laqa Bai Chanda", written by Dr. Oudhesh Rani, in 2013.
- "Aamne - Saamne" or "Face - Off", consisting of the stories "The Stronger" by August Strindberg, and "Maranoparant" by Surendra Verma, in 2014. 
- "Post-Mortem", written by Milind Tikhe, in 2014. 
- "Bitter Chocolate", written by Pinki Virani, in 2015. 
- "Out at Sea", written by Slawomir Mrozek and translated by Nicholas Bethell, in 2015. 
- "Agnes of God", written by John Pielmeier, in 2015. 
- "Raktbeej", written by the late Dr. Shankar Shesh, to celebrate 45 years of Rangadhara (Hyderabad's oldest theatre group), in July 2016.
- "Sita Soorpanakha" - a workshop production, written by Shivani Tibrewala, as a part of 'Maryaada' an evening of two short plays.
- "Jaal", written by Annie Zaidi. A staged reading of the play as a part of Writer's Bloc showcase at British Council, Hyderabad. 
- "Kanjoos Makkhichoose", a Hyderabadi adaptation of French playwright Molière’s “The Miser”  Adapted by Sutradhar and directed by Vinay Varma. This was staged on the occassion of World Theatre Day 2017.

 Joint directoral ventures include 

- "Gandhi - Ambedkar" with Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar, in 2000. 
- "Inspector Matadeen Chand Par", written by Harishankar Parsai, in 2002. 
- "Teen Apahij" with Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar, written by Vipin Agarwal, in 2004. 
- "The Phoenix" with Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar, written by Abhijit Sircar, in 2004.
- "Kisi Aur Ka Sapna" with Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar, written by Nand Kishore Acharya, in 2005.
- "Andhon ka Haathi" with Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar, written by Sharad Joshi, in 2006. 
- "Goodbye Swami" with Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar, written by Susheel Kumar Singh, in 2006.
- "Siyaah Haashiye" with Deepti Girotra, written by Sa'adat Hasan Manto, in 2011. 

Vinay has also acted in 
  
- "Jungle Book", directed by Vaishali Bisht, in 2011. 
- "Flowers", directed by Ram Mohan Holagundi, in 2015.
- "Raktbeej", directed by Vinay Varma, in 2016.
- "Jaal", directed by Vinay Varma, in 2017

Vinay does story reading for Abhivyakti- An Initiative to Celebrate Reading. It is a lead taken by Sutradhar and G.P Birla Library, Hyderabad to promote reading from books. Every month interested listeners gather at G.P Birla library to listen to Classic Hindustani Literature.

The Unsung Puppeteer

Solemn Soliloquy

Vinay Goes International

Oh! The Smell of Book

Vinay Varma

3-6-145/9/1/1, Himayatnagar
Hyderabad - 500 029, Telangana, India

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Email : vinay@sutradharactors.com