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 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

L1 was quite amazing in itself. I have slowly got rid of some of my inhibitions, and learnt stage techniques. I was quite satisfied with the presentation as well. But then I guess I did not have enough belief in myself to do L2. But Prakash Kota was telling L2

Find Ankita on FB Dear Baba, It took me 5 years to join L1, but after completing that I was very sure that I want to join L2. With all the warnings that it won’t be same or fun as L1, I was little nervous but very much excited about

Find Vishal on Facebook “To be a good actor you need to be a good human being”. And with these words started the process of my advanced workshop To say that this course helped me would be an understatement. The advanced workshop for me was a beginning of the journey “within”.

Find Avishek on FB Dear Sir, Before sharing my feedback, I would like to thank you for allowing me to pursue this course. I wasn’t able to make it to the interview process and I’m immensely grateful you understood my situation back then. I have been overjoyed by your conduct

Find Anusha on Facebook Dear Ratan, Here is my long pending (after much procrastination) feedback of the brilliant Misf!t course(s) I was fortunate to be a part of. Level 1 : Excitedly we climbed up four floors to the studio on May 3rd 2015, the interview day at 1:45 PM