The Theatre Movement in colleges is unique in the context of theatre in the country itself. The National College Basavanagudi has always stressed the importance of co-curricular activities, which shape the all-round development of an individual. Education, which aims at an overall development of an individual, can achieve this only when an educational institution lays equal emphasis on curricular and extra curricular activities. Theatre is one such aspect of culture, which enables an individual to develop his/her multi-dimensional personality. Therefore, in recent times, much of the educational institutions do encourage their students to actively take part in such theatre activities. But probably the National College Basavanagudi was the first college in the State, which introduced this concept of Inter-Section Drama Competition soon after Dr. H.Narasimhaiah became the principal of the college in the year 1962.
With the introduction of Inter-Section Drama Competition in the college, the National College Histrionic Club came into existence. It is hard for anybody to speak of modern theatre in Karnataka without referring to the National College Histrionic Club. The contribution of the National College Histrionic Club is huge to the modern theatre in Karnataka. The Gandhi-Nehru Rangamandira, the enclosed auditorium of the college has been the centre of theatre activities in the city even this to day.
60th intersection drama competition was held from 22nd June 2023 to 27th July 2023. The competition was inuagrated by Well-known theatre and Cinema actor, art director Sri. Arun Sagar. Arun Sagar spoke about the importance of the stage of the college which has produced so many eminent artists to theatre and cinema. He also spoke about the importance of opening up during the stage of college life and the rewards it can give later. The event was graced by Dr. H N Subrahmanya, the President NES of Karnataka, Sri. Arun Kumar, Hon. Secretary NES, Sri Sudhakar Esturi, Chairman NCB, Dr YC Kamala, Principal NCB, Dr PL Ramesh from the organization.