The Good Road is a 2013 Indian drama film written and directed by Gyan Correa. The film has been selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. The film won the award for Best Gujarati film at the 60th National Film Awards.
The film is told in a hyperlink format, where several stories are intertwined with the center of the action being a highway in the rural lands of Gujarat near the town of Kachch. The film is the first Gujarati film ever selected to represent India at the Oscars. Ajay Gehi, Keval Katrodia, Shamji Dhana Kerasia, Sonali Kulkarni, Poonam Kesar Singh and Priyank Upadhyay
Ratan Thiyam appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. His term will be of 4 years. Ratan Thiyam is an Indian playwright and theatre director, and the winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987, one of leading figures of the "theatre of roots" movement in Indian theatre, which started in 1970s.
He is a painter-playwright-actor-director by profession, and the founder director of Chorus Repertory Theatre in Imphal. He is the theatre director of some of the renowned plays such as Chakravyuh and Urubhangam.
