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.

It’s gr8 to now see you more regularly online. I’ve been meaning to write my feedback about MISFITS though I’m fairly sure I did earlier too in the feedback form, but it’s always nice to dwell on happy times. I would recommend MISFITS to anybody in Bangalore who has any

Find Pansy on Facebook Hi Ratan, Level 2 was certainly a different experience from Level 1 , more of internalizing , introspection and application of all that was taught. As always, I feel I have a long long way to go, only performing and practicing the art will make me

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

While the Beginner’s batch kept the acting at a more fun level, stressing more on projection and focusing on comedy scripts with humorous portrayals of characters with regional accents, the Advanced batch was all about internalizing. It was about being ‘In the Moment’ and doing an in-depth analysis of the

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 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