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 Satish on FB Hello Baba, First, let me start by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to be part of L2 at MISF!T. In L2 the best part for me is to explore my inner emotions and bringing them on demand. It was never easy… I was not

1>Achieved greater clarity on essence of presenting a character in totality. You just realize how much easier and simpler it is to perform once you let yourself be and think like the character. 2>It was very interesting and harder to be as natural and real as possible. 3>Certain activities like

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 Nieil on Facebook Dear Ratan I finally did it. After putting it off for many years, I finally enrolled for an acting class, did my Level 1, and completed it. Then……Level 2. Looking back, enrolling myself to do the Level 2 was one of the craziest things I ever did.

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

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