MUMBAI: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Anupam Kher’s acting school Actor Prepares in Ahmedabad on 20 July. This will be the fourth chapter of Actor Prepares, after Mumbai, Chandigarh and London.

Kher auditioned applicants of the inaugural three-month batch on 4 July and he will be taking classes when the course commences. Apart from Kher, the school has a trained full-time faculty of teachers to teach the craft of acting. Other subjects, which will be taught, reflecting the holistic approach of the Actor Prepares programme are yoga, dance, martial arts, voice and diction.

"I believe that acting, like any craft, can be taught, learnt and perfected," says Kher.

Actor Prepares Ahmedabad is sited on a landscaped 2.5 acre campus on the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway opposite Nirma University. It has several modern facilities such as a swimming pool, a fully-equipped auditorium for rehearsals plus an open-air performing area. Students can also avail of the services of a state-of-the-art gymnasium and a horse-riding school. The school also has a sizeable collection of films and books/journals to facilitate the learning of cinema. Actor Prepares also has a Talent Placement agency.