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 Sushma on Facebook Hello Ratan, MY L2 FEEDBACK! FINALLY! I was in post L2 state and it came to an end a few minutes ago. I was waiting for the post L2 phase to end and now here is my feedback. L2 happened to me in three phases. Phase

Find Bhumika on Facebook Dear Baba, Thank you. Thank you for changing my life, making me a better actor, singer and most important- a better person. You have taught me so much and I feel like you are the only person who I can really, fully open upto. I don’t

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

I was really lucky to be one of the students in Ratan’s first Advanced workshop batch. The workshop was intended to raise the level of our understanding of the skill of acting and to inch closer to professional performances. This workshop required us to be dedicated and to pick up

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 Selva on Facebook Dear Baba, Sorry for delay in feedback. I’m a Software engineer and passionate on Photography, Cinematography and Film Making. Had worked around 10 short films as Cinematographer, editor and poster design. Curious to understand what’s going on with actors and joined MISF!T Level 1 course. Few