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.

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 Bishan on Facebook Hello Baba, The first word on the white board on the first day of L2 was “Honesty”. And truly L2 is all about honesty. On the day of admissions you gave us enough opportunity to back out from taking up this journey of L2 as it

I haven’t acted in a rather long time, though I have been helping out a lot of groups with their performances. And my last acting performance was a disaster, by my standards. Consequently, I have developed a certain fear of, and an aversion to getting up on stage. So when

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

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

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”.