Most of the cinemas in the city are one-screen halls, but in recent times these have been giving way to large multiplexes. Cinemas often serve as major landmarks in the city and define the neighbourhood. Mumbai has many cinemas catering to a large and polyglot population.

It thereafter became the centre of India's Hindi and Marathi language film industries, with the former often dubbed as Bollywood. Mumbai has long been associated with films, with the first film being displayed here in 1896 by the Lumière Brothers. Lakshika also provides body movement and physical conditioning coaching for IIT Mumbai, Flame University, Drama School Mumbai and can also be found training for Acting Adda at Tata Sky.This is a list of cinemas in the city of Mumbai, India. Her works as an actor and director have received fame and accolades at the Kala Ghoda Festival and the National Centre for Performing Arts. Her production ‘Walking Naked – a journey of the women saints of India’ was commissioned by the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (Shimla) & the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). Lakshika is the founder of the Mumbai-based theatre company: The Shakti Ensemble, under which she devised and directed ‘Bebaak Beckett’, based on Samuel Beckett’s life and short plays, a play that was performed in six languages. Trained at the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire in the UK, she is India’s leading expert in creative movement and expressions.

She is trained in Bharatnatyam, Chhau (a martial-art Folk dance form), Yoga, and Butoh (Japanese dance theatre). Lakshika Pandey is an actor, dancer, and theatre-maker with over 15 years of experience. Most recently, she served as the Dialect Coach for the cast of ‘A Suitable Boy’ that was released on Netflix earlier last year. Hetal has been a voice, accent and dialect coach to many industry professionals including Mithila Palkar, Sonali Kulkarni, Abhimanyu Dassani, Manoj Bajpayee and many more. She has been recently invited to speak on an upcoming international panel of BIPOC (Black, Indeginous, and Person of Colour) TV/Film Accent and Dialect Coaches for VASTA Conference, 2021. As a founder of HV Voice Work, she is constantly researching and creating performances based on vocal explorations and music. She was also invited by the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to offer her research-based work on ‘Exchanging Pedagogies’ as a Masterclass for their International Voice Network Symposium. She was the only Indian invited as a delegate to VASTA’s annual conference in 2018. Her accolades include awards such as Charles Wallace India Trust Award from the British Council, Diversity Scholarship from the Voice And Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), and Best Singer Award from Lion’s Club. She holds a Masters in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She has been working in the theatre industry for more than 15 years as a singer and actor. Hetal Varia is a world-renowned voice, accent, and dialect coach. In his spare time, he also conducts several workshops for both children and adults who are theatre enthusiasts. Most recently, Niketan acted in one of the upcoming web shows of TVF, which is known for its YouTube content. His creation, ‘Adrak’ (co-written, co-directed, and co-performed by him) has received tremendous appreciation in the independent theatre community in India and was also featured at the prestigious Serendipity Arts Festival Goa in their Theatre at Home series in 2018. He also has his own theatre company, NOW Productions. He collaborated with the renowned Mahesh Dattani in his play ‘Final Solutions’ as part of a Cineplay production for online media. Niketan has been a part of many well-known productions. In 2014, he got professional training at The Drama School Mumbai to become a first-generation actor and theatre director today. Having grown up in Delhi, Niketan’s journey in theatre began ten years ago from the theatre society at Kirori Mal College’. Niketan Sharma is a Mumbai-based actor, writer, and theatre director.

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