Professor Roshan Taneja is the founder and former head of the acting department of FTTI, Pune. He is the pioneer of method acting in India. He had been to New York where he had been trained under the renowned Sanford Meisner and Sydney Pollock. He has been teaching acting for the last 51 years. He runs now The Roshan Taneja School of Acting with Acting Exercises and Scenes to suit the times., keeping in mind the universality of emotions. They offer a four-month Diploma course, and conduct weekend courses. Apart from Mumbai, the school has branches in Hyderabad and Kolkata. They also run summer camps in the USA.