Hi Baba, (Ratan) Good morning!! Had been planning to write you this email but then would always think ,’Abhi toh class baaki ha, ll write post the last class’ so that i include everything that i have learnt .. and today morning realised that the Workshop level 2 in

Like many of us would agree, a good measure of an actor lies in his ability to convince the viewer that he is not acting but is the very character he is depicting. That is probably the core of what I perceive to be the purpose and direction of the

L1 was quite amazing in itself. I have slowly got rid of some of my inhibitions, and learnt stage techniques. I was quite satisfied with the presentation as well. But then I guess I did not have enough belief in myself to do L2. But Prakash Kota was telling L2

Level-2 acting worskhop at MISFIT is a complete elevated experience from Level-1,it now feels like as if the(L-1)workshop was preparing us for this…Acting is for ‘REAL’.The workshop is rigorous,fun and in detail.

I haven’t acted in a rather long time, though I have been helping out a lot of groups with their performances. And my last acting performance was a disaster, by my standards. Consequently, I have developed a certain fear of, and an aversion to getting up on stage. So when

Imagine this situation: A friend of yours calls on your mobile, and says, “Can I meet you today evening? I really need to talk to you.” . The tone of his voice indicates, very clearly, that something is wrong. You say, “What happened?”. He responds, “I’ll tell you when I

Find Suprabha on Facebook L1: First day was very scary, all the fuh-kha exercises made me wonder why am I here. As the days passed by I was having fun, made a few friends but I would still miss those jobless weekends. Sometimes I used to count the number of

Find Manisha on Facebook I was always told that I can never be an actor because people believe that acting is all about pretending and being very straight forward by nature I can’t pretend so that means I can never act. And I believed those people. But they were absolutely wrong.

Find him on FB Hi BabaWith L2 I realised how difficult is to enact emotions of our daily life in a way where an audience could connect to it. It requires a consistent amount of effort to be able to do the same as per your will. L2 also brought

12:48 am as I write. “Disturbing” for the professor is good for “creativity” for the student!!  Without squeezing the orange how do you get the tasty juice? Today’s class was very meaningful.  Totally agree that “simplicity” makes acting fresh and real.  It does take the extraneous mental calculations away and

1>Achieved greater clarity on essence of presenting a character in totality. You just realize how much easier and simpler it is to perform once you let yourself be and think like the character. 2>It was very interesting and harder to be as natural and real as possible. 3>Certain activities like

I was really lucky to be one of the students in Ratan’s first Advanced workshop batch. The workshop was intended to raise the level of our understanding of the skill of acting and to inch closer to professional performances. This workshop required us to be dedicated and to pick up