Aryan Heritage Foundation presents
Broadway रामलीला
नए दृष्टिकोण से
The Ramayan, staged the way a great theatre stages it — built sets, designed light, live sound and a company of players. An annual production in Delhi, free to attend, made by the neighbourhood that watches it.
- 14 – 19 Oct 2026six nights
- 7:00 PMgates onwards
- NSP PitampuraNew Delhi
- Free entryregister online
“Experience World’s Best Ramlila” #broadwayramlila
14 – 19 October 2026
The trailer
Two and a half minutes of what is coming to the ground this October.
Who we are
Aryan Heritage Foundation
We are a cultural body in North West Delhi with a single, stubborn purpose: to keep the Ramleela alive by making it worth watching again.
The Ramleela has been performed in this country for centuries, and in most places it is performed exactly as it was fifty years ago. Audiences drifted. Children stopped coming. We did not think the answer was to change the story — the answer was to change the telling.
So the Foundation set out to produce a Ramleela to professional theatre standards: a real stage, real design, real rehearsal, and a cast that has been directed rather than merely costumed. Everything else about it stays exactly as it always was — the same Ramayan, the same faith, the same open ground, and the same rule that nobody pays to come in.
Everything is run by volunteers and paid for by the people of the area. There is no ticket counter. There never will be.
The production
Why we call it ब्रॉडवे
Not because the story changed. Because the craft did.
The name is a claim about standard, and we mean it literally. Broadway — the theatre district off Times Square in New York — is where an audience simply assumes that the light, the sound, the sets and the timing will be flawless. We set out to build a Ramleela to that level: the same order of technology, the same months of rehearsal, the same refusal to let anything on stage look improvised. What plays out on it is the Ramayan exactly as it has always been told.
The Times Square standard
Broadway is the benchmark because it is the highest one there is. Everything a theatregoer in New York expects without thinking about it — a cue that lands, a light that tells you where to look, sound that carries clean to the last row — is what we build for an open ground in Pitampura.
High technology, open ground
A Broadway house is engineered around its show and never takes it down. A Ramleela ground is bare earth eleven months a year — so the stage, the rig and the sound system are built up from nothing each October and made to perform to the same standard.
Directed, not merely dressed
The difference an audience feels first is rehearsal. Every scene is cast, blocked and directed for months before opening night, so what reaches the stage is a performance rather than a recital in costume.
The Ramayan, unchanged
None of this touches the text. The episodes run in their proper order across six nights and the telling stays faithful — the technology is in service of the story, never in place of it.
All of that — and nobody has ever paid to come in.
Coming to the Ramleela
Entry is free of cost.
How to get your entry pass
Two ways — choose either one
Option 1 · Fastest
Register online — pass on your email
Fill the short form below and choose your night. Your QR entry pass is emailed to you instantly — show it at Akasa Dwar. Valid for that one day only.
Available until the last night, Monday 19 October
Register below ↓
Option 2
Collect a printed pass
From any of the three addresses listed below the form, weekdays 2:00 – 4:00 PM.
Until Saturday 17 October
Limit Maximum 4 persons per entry
Valid One pass is valid for one-time entry
Option 1: register here — your QR entry pass comes to your email, valid for the night you choose.
Passes for 2026 are no longer being issued. Already have yours? See you at the ground.
Your registration
- Name
- Occupation
- Night
- People
- Mobile
Your QR entry pass has been emailed — show it at Akasa Dwar. Not in your inbox? Check spam, or take a screenshot of this and collect a printed pass at any address below.
One pass is valid for one-time entry.
Option 2 — pass collection addresses
- G-26, NDM-2Netaji Subhash Place Map
- A-8, Lok ViharPitampura Map
- BA/25, Mangolpuri Industrial AreaPhase-II Map
Weekdays, 2:00 – 4:00 PM · until Saturday 17 October
Gates open at 7:00 PM, all six nights · How to reach the ground →
Year by year
The editions
One production a year, six nights each. A record of the ones we have staged.
This year · 2026
Broadway रामलीला 2026
Entry is free of cost — register on this page for your entry pass.
2025
Broadway रामलीला 2025
At the ground
Selfie of the night
Take a selfie at the Ramleela and upload it here. Every night we choose one selfie, and whoever sent it receives a gift from the Foundation.
Winners
- Night 1To be chosen
- Night 2To be chosen
- Night 3To be chosen
- Night 4To be chosen
- Night 5To be chosen
- Night 6To be chosen
- One winner each night, chosen by the Foundation.
- Take it at the Ramleela ground, on the night you came.
- Up to three selfies per mobile number per night.
In your words
Reviews
Seen the Ramleela? Tell us what stayed with you. We read every review, and a selection appears here.
No reviews yet — be the first.
Get involved
It runs on the people who show up
Entry is free, so every rupee behind the production comes from somewhere else. Here is where.
Our Team
Our Donors
The members who stage it
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The 24 founder members of Aryan Heritage Foundation — office bearers, vice presidents and executive members — who build Broadway Ramleela every year.
Meet the team →The people who make it possible
Entry is free, so every set, light and costume is paid for by the families and businesses who give to the Foundation. To each of them — thank you.
Donations to Aryan Heritage Foundation qualify for deduction under Section 80G.
80G Aryan Heritage Foundation is a registered trust. Donations to it qualify for deduction under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961 — a receipt is issued for every contribution. Registration number to be confirmed.
Reach us
Contact
Aryan Heritage Foundation
Ramleela Ground, Opp. NDM-2
Netaji Subhash Place, Pitampura
New Delhi 110034
At the Ramleela
Coming to the ground, or just back from it:
- Get your free entry passFree of cost — register in a minute
- Upload your selfieOne selfie wins a gift every night
- Write a reviewTell us what stayed with you
- Food Menu 2026All seven food court counters, with prices
- How to reach the groundMetro, car, auto — and where to park