AFTER opening acting schools in India and abroad, actor-cum-filmmaker Anupam Kher is all set to start personality development schools to help people express their 'real emotions'.

These schools, to be branded Change Within, will show students of every age a means to self-realisation. He plans to open them not only in India but also across the world.

'The Change Within classes won't be for actors, although acting would be a part of the course. Neither is it an 'Art Of Living' course. I'd describe it as a 'power of living' course. My schools would show the common man why he needn't be afraid to show his real emotions,' Anupam told IANS.

Anupam is in discussion with therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists and astrologers who will form a part of his core group.

'The first branches of Change Within would open in Mumbai and Delhi in the next six months. Thereafter I want to take it to other cities all over the world. Mine won't be a finishing school, it will be a 'starting' school.

'When I was a struggler in Mumbai I was told not to eat with loud chomps or laugh too loudly although I enjoyed doing both. I'd rush to the beach every morning and laugh as hard as I could. Why is an unbridled emotional expression considered downmarket? More importantly, why are we so insecure about our level of achievements?'