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 Rituparna on Facebook MISF!T must have received complements like – amazing, marvelous, fantastic, brilliant, awesome workshop. Well, I am not going to write anything different, but with a blend of my experience.   MISF!T has helped me to rediscover myself. When I say rediscover I mean I have again fallen head over heels in

Find Vidya on FB Dear Baba, below is my feedback. Misfit has a huge impact in my life. Especially L2. It had helped me to improve my self esteem and to rediscover myself. The bonding we develop in misfit as a group is inseperable. That too in L2 we all

Find Manish on FB Honestly more than L1 I enjoyed L2 as I loved the process and all the techniques taught. The emotions, triggers, about creating a character, about the body levels I loved the whole process. Also I regret that I missed a lot of classes due to personal

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

From reel to real is the Keyword I was told DAY 1. What it means …easier said than going thro. Now, I know why is said, “Acting is believing” Now too far ago was thinking, I am dine with the acting part when Level 2 was announced and to my

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