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.

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

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.

 Find Vidya on Facebook From the word ‘GO’ till the moment Ratan said your L2 is completed…Phew!!! the journey was better than a roller coaster ride !!! After my L1 grading I thought I had understood some bits of acting… ‘Jokes’(dialogue from “strangers”) … Day 1 of Level 2 pulled

 Find Nieil on Facebook Dear Ratan I finally did it. After putting it off for many years, I finally enrolled for an acting class, did my Level 1, and completed it. Then……Level 2. Looking back, enrolling myself to do the Level 2 was one of the craziest things I ever did.

Find Bishan on Facebook Hello Baba, The first word on the white board on the first day of L2 was “Honesty”. And truly L2 is all about honesty. On the day of admissions you gave us enough opportunity to back out from taking up this journey of L2 as it

More experiential than level, great experience. Really takes one to the next level of acting where everyone can become their own coach.