Rahul Vohra has played multiple roles in the field of culture. He was a senior member and actor of Delhi-based theatre group Chingari. Since then, he has been an actor for Indian and foreign theatre and feature film and documentary film productions, advertisements, and television serials. He has hosted television shows for Indian and foreign channels and has been a Presenter for diverse performances held at prestigious venues across the world.
Rahul has been Artistic Director and Producer for various international festivals of performing arts. A founding Co-ordinator of Sarthi, a voluntary body addressing basic issues related to artists and artisans, he has directed and managed productions with troupes of performing artists and craftspersons from all across the country.
He was Director of the show Navrasa, a multidisciplinary show that inaugurated the summer theatre season in France at the festival Printemps des Comediens. The show also travelled to two other festivals – Garonne at Toulouse and Chalon Dans La Rue at Chalon sur Saone.
Rahul was also Producer and Director of the show Jhalak that was featured at the World Cultural Forum Barcelona 2004 from May to September 2004. This show also travelled to the festivals of Reus and Bilbao (Spain) and Montpellier (France). He was Director of a multidisciplinary show Le Palais Des Vents with an international cast of artistes from six countries to inaugurate the festival Printemps des Comédiens (Montpellier) in June 2005. He even played an important role as Creative Consultant, Creative Director and producer of multidisciplinary performances and exhibitions for La Salle Champ Fleury at St Denis de la Réunion in Nov 2005 and for the programming year 2006.
He undertook the Creative Management of ‘1857’, a show with 2000 folk artistes from all over the country to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the First War of Independence at the Red Fort Delhi.
Rahul has been Artistic Consultant for several French film and television productions.
He established an independent performing arts and production company Apostrophe 99.
He has lectured on various aspects of Indian culture in festivals held in the Reunion Island (France).
Currently, Rahul is the Principal Lead Actor and Sutradhar (in French and English) in the world tour of the musical Bharati, which premiered at the Palais des Congres in Paris in Jan 2006 and travelled to 39 cities across the world. He has performed for the show nearly 500 times since the premiere, on European, American and Austalasian Tours
Rahul Vohra was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Montpellier and the medal of St Jean de Vedas in 2005 by the Vice President of the department of Herault, south of France.
