Manish overcame his stuttering in order to pursue his passion for theater and made big revolutions in the theater culture in Hisar. He exhorts everyone to support local performing and visual artists by going to see them perform and giving them encouragement.

Manish Joshi is a Theater Artist, who also does puppetry. He runs the most active theater group in Haryana called Abhinay Rang Manch in Hisar. He also has a good hand at writing.

Manish hails from Hisar, Haryana. He did all his schooling and college education from there itself. He also did a one-year training course in theater from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. After coming back, he started doing theater in Hisar itself, but he was not earning anything there. So he moved to Delhi at the behest of his friend. There, he started by performing in a few plays, and gradually, a lot of work started getting his way.

Soon, he joined the Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon at a good salary package. However, he wanted to do something bigger in Hisar due to which he left his job and returned to his hometown. He, along with one of his friends, brought about a revolutionary change in theater art in Hisar and made it a necessity for the people of the town.

Manish shares that once he watched a play in his hometown. Inspired by this, he thought of making a career in the same field. But the production manager of that theater rejected him because of his stammering problem. That rejection served as the biggest inspiration for him as he worked on his speech since then. He succeeded in it and after that made a successful career out of this field and even achieved heights.

Describing his struggles, Manish says he made his entry into the theater industry with great difficulty because of his stuttering problem. Besides, there was no audience to watch this theater art in Hisar. But he took the initiative and worked so hard in promoting his play that in the following days, the entire theater was housefull. Apart from this, there was immense pressure on him from his family to get a job and earn money as his family’s only source of income was their flour mill, which was completely burnt to ashes in a fire.

Regarding his achievements, Manish says that taking theater art in Hisar to another level and introducing a ticket culture for watching theater in Hisar was his biggest accomplishment because earlier people would not watch plays, even for free. And now, they have started buying tickets to watch the art, which is his biggest achievement. Besides, in 2016, he was awarded the ‘Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Award’ by the Sangeet Natak Academy, Delhi for his playwriting, which was a big achievement for him.

Manish enjoys listening to music, visiting Rishikesh, and taking meditation sessions in his spare time. He is also fond of traveling and likes to spend time with his friends too.

Advising the people coming into the field of theater, Manish says that if you want to make a career in this field, then you have to give at least eight hours a day to it and keep working day and night with dedication and work hard to sustain in this field. He also says that if you think you will not have to study much in this field, then it is your misconception because this field demands to work on different scripts which need more reading and increasing your knowledge base and it involves learning.