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 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

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

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

While the Beginner’s batch kept the acting at a more fun level, stressing more on projection and focusing on comedy scripts with humorous portrayals of characters with regional accents, the Advanced batch was all about internalizing. It was about being ‘In the Moment’ and doing an in-depth analysis of the

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

Find Rushi on Facebook   It’s not a workshop- it’s life changing in every aspect. I still remember about the day before my L1 started; I was like I shouldn’t expect much from this course and try to give my 100%. But what a grand journey it has been. I had