Acting auditions in India shouldn't be this hard to find
You're checking Instagram stories, scrolling Telegram channels, and refreshing WhatsApp groups, all to maybe find one audition that's real and still open.
Right now, finding acting jobs in India works like this: someone posts a casting call on their Instagram story. It gets screenshot and forwarded to a WhatsApp group. By the time it reaches you, it's either expired, filled, or was never a real production to begin with. You DM the number anyway. No reply.
Or you're in one of those Telegram channels with 8,000 members where every other post is a “paid collaboration” that turns out to be someone shooting reels in Andheri. Mixed in are the occasional real casting calls, but they're buried under spam, and the details are always vague. No production house name. No dates. Just “looking for fresh faces, DM with portfolio.”
You end up applying to 50 things a month. You hear back from maybe 2. And even those callbacks lead nowhere half the time because the “director” ghosts after the first round. Meanwhile, actual productions with real budgets are casting through closed networks you don't have access to.
ShortCine pulls together verified casting calls from actual production houses, indie filmmakers, and casting directors across Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, and beyond. Every listing has a named production, clear role details, and confirmed shoot dates. No guesswork and no scams.
All auditions, one place
Stop jumping between Instagram, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Every open casting call from verified productions shows up here, filterable by city, language, role type, and dates.
Verified listings only
Every casting call on ShortCine comes from a confirmed production. We check for a real production house, a real casting director, and real shoot dates before anything goes live.
Apply and actually hear back
Submit your profile directly to the casting team. No middlemen, no forwarded screenshots. You won't be hoping someone notices your DM in a group of thousands.
“I used to spend two hours every morning going through Instagram stories and Telegram groups looking for auditions. Most of them were dead leads. Found three real callbacks in my first week on ShortCine, and one of them turned into a short film.”
Priya Nair
Actor, Mumbai