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

I am enjoying the revisit of level 2. The process of acting is becoming even more clear, the outcome is obviously me going to a better level and delivering better performance. In Thursday’s class, the highlight for me was the ease with which we can create a character, by picking up

Whew! What a journey it has been, finishing the Level 2, Batch 4, MISF!T acting workshop by Ratan, in September 2009. I finished the Level 1 workshop in June 2006, which brings back so many nostalgic memories. During the interim, I became a professional “audien”, watching plays by others. Something

The advance cource was very different from what i had expected. Any course conducted by Rathan is a lot of fun but there were portions of the advance course that were intense and very personal for me. There was a lot of introspection required for the basic emotions and I

Harrowingly intense and almost about self discovery! It was an interesting experience as an actor. I learnt to feel for the characters I was playing and build a background. Cut off from all my peripherals like stage, costume, lights, etc and stripped down to my bare essentials, I started to

Level 2 is extemely intense. I feel any aspiring actor should be part of Ratan’s Level 2 acting workshop. It helps you unearth all those buried emotions and in turn makes one realize acting is, “how real one can be!” Personally I felt it was 2-3 months of self discovery.

Whew! What a journey it has been, finishing the Level 2, Batch 4, MISF!T acting workshop by Ratan, in September 2009. I finished the Level 1 workshop in June 2006, which brings back so many nostalgic memories. During the interim, I became a professional “audien”, watching plays by others. Something

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.

Again was very nervous at the start with Ratan scaring us in the first class. But it kept getting better and better with some serious acting and critical feedbacks. On my side, I was able to pick up some of the learnings I has missed in my Level 1. Also

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

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

 Find Arvind on Facebook Nothing specific but a very general feedback of my road from being a person who would abstain himself from initiating a casual chat with someone (anyone), who turned into to a gregarious folk. Like really, give me a chance to talk and at times, and I