made name in the Parallel cinema, which came of age in the late 1970s. This included, Sai Paranjpye, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor. Most colleges now had their own theatre societies, which became breeding ground for future practitioners. Later in the 1980s, with increasing popularity of television soap operas, home videos and cable TV, audience moved away from theatre for a while, before theatre resurrected itself in the late 1990s with a new breed of theatre directors who sought not just new themes and narratives, but also took to absurd, expressionist, experimental and improvisational theatre with greater zeal. They also started to find sponsors in the corporate sector and numerous theatre directors were able to sustain themselves on theatre alone. Two challenges that came up in the coming years was that even now actors took their theatre careers as a prep for film careers, and secondly most theatre actors learned via working in theatre groups, as avenues of theatre education remained limited, though some organisation that opened in other cities beyond Delhi, like Jaipur, Lucknow, and Chandigarh, which had playwright-director Balwant Gargi guiding new phase of theatre, offered young aspirants to learn the craft. At Bhopal theatre director and playwright Prof. Satish Mehta and his National Award-winning actor wife Jyotsna Mehta established the theatre group "Prayog". The group was founded in the year 1975 at Indore and later over the years, opened branches in Bhopal, Mumbai, Rewa, Noida and New Jersey, USA. Since then the group is active and staging the plays regularly. Well known plays of "Prayog" are "Andhon ka hathi", "Juloos", "Bakari" "Dulari Bai"," Jadugar jungle","Khamosh adalat jari hai","Ek aur Dronacharya", "Jis Lahore nahi Dekhya","Kajal ka jadu","Kandhe par baitha tha shap" "Mujhe Amrita Chahiye", "Raktbeej", "Rai" and many others. Satish Mehta directed all these plays with his own original style. He has got credit to perform many street plays, too. Prof. Satish Mehta has also authored many Plays. Few of which are, "Kajal ka Jadoo", "Jinda hai Sukrat", "Abhinay", "Door Desh ki Gandh", "Bharat ke Laal" etc. Prof. Satish Mehta's comprehensive book on theater, "Rangkarm Aayam Dar Aayam" is considered one of the finest work on the history, evolution, different genres and various other aspects of theater. Mrityunjay Prabhakar is one of the major young Hindi theatre director and playwright who emerged on Indian Theatre Scene in the last decade of the 20th century and established