Ranipur Theatre Company opens Bandra arts space

Ranipur Theatre Company has opened a new independent arts venue in Bandra, extending a comedy-led brand into a small-format performance space in one of Mumbai’s busiest cultural neighborhoods. The company’s own listings place the opening weekend on April 16-19, 2026, at its address in Dheeraj Swapna Building near Pali Naka in Bandra West. Time Out Mumbai included the launch in its May 11-17 city guide, describing it as a new independent combined arts space from the makers of the Mumbai Comedy Festival and That Comedy Club. ### Where exactly is the new venue? Ranipur Theatre Company lists the venue at Shop No. 3 and 4, 1st Floor, Dheeraj Swapna Building, Pali Naka, Pali Hill, Bandra West, Mumbai 400050. Event pages on AllEvents and other ticketing listings use the same address, placing it next to Woodside Inn in Bandra West. The Bandra location matters because the company is not opening inside an established institutional arts complex. (ranipurtheatrecompany.com) Time Out’s Mumbai roundup placed the venue alongside the city’s weekly cultural listings, while Ranipur’s own pages present it as a standalone arts space rather than a festival pop-up or one-off series. That is an inference from the company’s published venue and event pages. ### What has Ranipur actually built inside the space? Ranipur says it operates a compact, multi-purpose venue with four performance stages. The capacities listed on its shows page are 45, 32, 20 and 10 seats, with only one stage active at a time. The company says the format is meant to allow flexibility within an intimate setting. The programming description on the same page is broader than straight stand-up. (timeout.com) Ranipur says the venue hosts stand-up, clowning, theatre, music and spoken word, suggesting a mixed-use model even though many of the currently visible ticketed events are comedy shows. ### Who is behind it? Time Out described the project as coming from the makers of the Mumbai Comedy Festival and That Comedy Club. (ranipurtheatrecompany.com) Multiple event listings on BookMyShow repeat the same line in their event descriptions for Ranipur shows, including Comedy All-Stars and Masoom Vichar. Ranipur’s own about page frames the company as a founder-led project with a personal name origin. (ranipurtheatrecompany.com) The site says “Ranipur is my mother’s village in northern India,” and explains the “Rani” and “Pur” construction as part of the identity behind the space. The page does not, in the snippet available through search, name the speaker in that passage. ### Did the opening weekend already happen? (timeout.com) Ranipur’s listings say yes. The company’s shows page lists an “Opening (long) Weekend” dated April 16-19, 2026, while a BookMyShow event page for “Opening (long) Weekend” shows the venue hosting that launch run in Mumbai. BookMyShow also shows a separate event, “Ranipur Live 01,” running May 1-3, 2026, at the same venue. That listing described the event as a showcase mixing comedy and music and set ticket prices at 499 rupees. (ranipurtheatrecompany.com) ### What is on the calendar now? May listings point to a continuing run of comedy-led events rather than a one-weekend launch. BookMyShow and event aggregators show appearances and showcases including Comedy All-Stars, Masoom Rajwani, Sumukhi Suresh and Shreeja Chaturvedi tied to Ranipur Theatre Co. in Bandra. (ranipurtheatrecompany.com) A listing for RTC: Comedy All-Stars shows Shashwat Maheshwari and Abhishek Bhutwani on May 16, 2026, at the Bandra venue. (in.bookmyshow.com) Another event page lists “Very Late Night Comedy” on May 31, 2026, with tickets at 499 rupees. ### What comes next after the opening push? Ranipur’s website and ticketing pages indicate the company is still building out both venue programming and adjacent projects. (in.bookmyshow.com) The homepage references a “Ranipur Arts Festival” and says the group is setting up a video-production wing to adapt original theatre productions into films. For audiences, the next concrete step is simpler. (allevents.in) May event schedules remain live on Ranipur’s site and on BookMyShow, with shows continuing at the Pali Naka venue after the April opening weekend and the early-May Ranipur Live run. (ranipurtheatrecompany.com) (ranipurtheatrecompany.com)