About
To provide performing artists and audiences a world-class venue in South Bengaluru — welcoming artists from across India and the world, and making the performing arts accessible to the city's growing southern communities.
The Prestige Srihari Khoday Centre for Performing Arts (PCPA) is a purpose-built performing arts venue in South Bengaluru, opened in January 2023. Part of the Prestige Group's Falcon City master plan on Kanakapura Road, adjacent to Forum South Bengaluru Mall, the 1,09,806 sq ft complex houses a 1,000-seat Broadway-style indoor theatre, a 500-capacity banquet hall, and a 500-seat open-air amphitheatre. With a stage measuring 77 ft width by 45 ft depth, multiple green rooms, high-end lighting and sound infrastructure, and direct metro connectivity to Konanakunte Cross station, PCPA positions itself as a major contemporary venue for music, theatre, dance, and community events in the city's rapidly developing southern corridor.
Bengaluru's performing arts infrastructure has long been concentrated in the city's older northern and central precincts, leaving South Bengaluru, home to a large and culturally active population, without a dedicated venue of comparable scale. The Prestige Srihari Khoday Centre for Performing Arts emerged from the Prestige Group's ambition to build the cultural life of its Falcon City mixed-use township on Kanakapura Road as much as its residential and retail components.
The centre was inaugurated in January 2023 with a performance by sarod maestro Ustaad Amjad Ali Khan and three generations of his family, a deliberate choice that signalled the venue's aspiration: not merely a commercial event space, but a home for artists of the highest order. Irfan Razack, Chairman and Managing Director of the Prestige Group, described the centre as an effort to curate experiences that would reinforce the Group's connection to Indian artistic traditions.
Designed by American architectural firm WFM Media on a commission from Prestige, the building's section derives from the functional requirements of the auditorium itself, with the roof beginning in a steep incline from the park behind the building and extending to a sweeping arrival portico at the front. Green rooms, rehearsal spaces, lobbies, and exhibition spaces sit below the concourse; a banquet facility occupies the lower ground level alongside the kitchen; and a rooftop recreational space extends the park's footprint over the building.
In the years since its opening, PCPA has established a recurring programme including Raagini, a monthly Indian classical music concert series, alongside an active calendar of theatre, dance, and international performances. It has hosted productions from the Bengaluru Theatre Festival, performances by South African guitarist Guy Buttery, and Summersault, a children's performing arts festival. The NCPA Mumbai uses PCPA as a venue for its touring productions in Bengaluru, reflecting the level of institutional credibility the venue has built in a short time.
Visit & Access
Adjacent to Forum South Bengaluru Mall on Kanakapura Road. Directly connected to Konanakunte Cross metro station on the Green Line. Auto-rickshaws, ride-hailing, and BMTC buses also serve the location. Parking available on-site.
Founding & Leadership
Irfan Razack is the Chairman and Managing Director of Prestige Estates Projects Limited, which he formally established in 1986, expanding the family business from retail into real estate development. Under his leadership the company became one of India's largest listed real estate developers following its IPO in 2010, developing major residential, commercial, retail, and hospitality projects across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, and Mumbai. Razack has served as President of the Bangalore Commercial Association and Chairman of CREDAI Bengaluru; the Government of Karnataka honoured him with the Rajyotsava Award.
Leadership & Trustees
Initiatives & Portfolio
Monthly Indian classical music concert series hosted at PCPA.
Annual children's performing arts festival held at PCPA.
Recurring intimate live music series at PCPA featuring emerging and established artists.
PCPA occupies an important position in Bengaluru's cultural geography precisely because of where it is. Konanakunte, in South Bengaluru, has grown rapidly as a residential area but lacked cultural infrastructure. The centre's integration with the Namma Metro Green Line — with Konanakunte Cross station at its doorstep — makes it one of a small number of Indian performing arts venues genuinely accessible by public transit.
Its scale also fills a gap: the 1,000-seat auditorium with professional-grade technical infrastructure gives both Indian and international touring productions a viable Bengaluru venue outside the city's older, often technically limited alternatives. Organisations like the NCPA Mumbai and festival programmers for the Bengaluru Theatre Festival have already identified it as a preferred partner.
The complex's model — a cultural venue integrated into a real estate development — carries both opportunity and constraint. The Prestige Group's backing provides financial sustainability that purely endowment-based or government-backed venues often lack; the adjacency to a mall and residential towers also shapes the audience it naturally attracts, which leans toward South Bengaluru's upper-middle-class professional demographic.
PCPA is genuinely impressive infrastructure for Bengaluru's performing arts ecosystem, and its opening in 2023 was long overdue for South Bengaluru. The venue's technical specifications — stage dimensions, lighting rigs, Atmos-capable sound systems — are among the best in any recently built Indian performing arts centre, and the metro adjacency is a genuine differentiator in a city where traffic has historically kept audiences away from evening performances.
The more open question is programming ambition. PCPA has the physical scale to be a national-calibre venue, but that distinction is won through curation and commissioning, not infrastructure. The early programming mix — international touring productions, the Bengaluru Theatre Festival, Indian classical concerts — suggests a good baseline, but whether PCPA develops an original voice in the city's cultural conversation, commissions new work, or serves primarily as a high-end hire venue will determine its long-term significance. The Prestige Group's framing as a brand-building exercise sits in some tension with the kind of institutional independence that defines the venues PCPA might aspire to resemble.