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 Mahaboob on Facebook Hi BABA, Acting infront of people?My god i didn’t even thought about it.I even didn’t remembered any single incedence in my life which i have communicated to new person with confidence . Eventhough i have intrest in acting,my first intension to join MISFIT was atleast i

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.

  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,

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

Find Suprabha on Facebook L1: First day was very scary, all the fuh-kha exercises made me wonder why am I here. As the days passed by I was having fun, made a few friends but I would still miss those jobless weekends. Sometimes I used to count the number of

 Find Arvind on Facebook Nothing specific but a very general feedback of my road from being a person who would abstain himself from initiating a casual chat with someone (anyone), who turned into to a gregarious folk. Like really, give me a chance to talk and at times, and I