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 Ravali on Facebook A lot of people may not know this, but I was a very reserved person for a long time. It was just a select bunch of people in my life to whom I used to open up to. Being social and spontaneous was not my scene.

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

Find Ajay on FB Join MiSFiT level 2, you probably get to know where you FiT. It took some time to recollect what I have learnt in this course and continue to recollect, because its huge.Few things I would like to share. This course is more about learning characters than

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 Vidya on FB Dear Baba, below is my feedback. Misfit has a huge impact in my life. Especially L2. It had helped me to improve my self esteem and to rediscover myself. The bonding we develop in misfit as a group is inseperable. That too in L2 we all

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