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 Selva on Facebook Dear Baba, Sorry for delay in feedback. I’m a Software engineer and passionate on Photography, Cinematography and Film Making. Had worked around 10 short films as Cinematographer, editor and poster design. Curious to understand what’s going on with actors and joined MISF!T Level 1 course. Few

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

  Hi baba(Ratan) putting this accross in words is very clinical for me, because what u experience and feel, is just too difficult to be put in words. it was a journey which has come to an end, without even knowing where did it start, and instead of visiting places,

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

Find Parth on Facebook Hello Sir, PFA Level 2 feedback ! 🙂 Level 2, wow. Extremely sorry for sending this 3 weeks later than it was supposed to reach you Sir. Level 1 was amazing, awesome, it was point 1 – check, point 2 – check, point 3 – check