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.

Find Pansy on Facebook Hi Ratan, Level 2 was certainly a different experience from Level 1 , more of internalizing , introspection and application of all that was taught. As always, I feel I have a long long way to go, only performing and practicing the art will make me

 Find Amber on Facebook As the year draws to a close, a glance back at the highs and lows is in order. While this has been a very eventful year for me, what with starting work, running a house for the first time, writing more than I have ever done

 Find Abhishek on Facebook L2 is a journey within you. I literally went into various time zones of my life, I cried, laughed, got angry, and became sad. Yes everything and every emotion were true. This is what Baba made us to go through. L2 was like a roller coaster

Find Rituparna on Facebook MISF!T must have received complements like – amazing, marvelous, fantastic, brilliant, awesome workshop. Well, I am not going to write anything different, but with a blend of my experience.   MISF!T has helped me to rediscover myself. When I say rediscover I mean I have again fallen head over heels in

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.

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