 Dalip moved with his family to Mumbai in 1968, joined the Theatre Group Bombay and trained under its directors, Alyque and Pearl Padamsee.He appeared in some of its major productions, such as John the Baptist and Jesus in "Godspell" (India's first English theatre musical, directed by Pearl Padamsee), Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' "A Street Car Named Desire", directed by Alyque Padamsee.He played Galy Gay, in Amal Alana's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Man Is a Man".