Rajat Dalal– Feedback on Level 1 Workshop (2025/2)
Email address: rajatdalal963@gmail.com
The Workshop:
L1 was AMAZING! Fun, laughs, friends, positivity, learning, stretching the comfort zone, initial rise, middle fall, final triump. All in 12 days. No, sorry, six weekends.
Everything from animating facial expressions, active listening, actors magic, switching in and out of character, the use of body language and voices has helped me become a better version of myself in my mind and whoever I come across to in my personal life.
I will never forget the day when you repeatedly made it a point that my naughtiness in not something I should dial down, that it’s something I should own! (I’ll get better at not stepping on people’s toes though while at it!)
The workshop was a class and a therapy in itself! We got to learn about releasing inhibitions, creating characters, express better in terms of face and voice and stage technicalities. Vishal and the gang had been consistent when it came to maintaining the novelty and the energy through out the six weekends to make sure it doesn’t feel like class and more like an adventure, an awesome thrill ride.
And BY GOD, VISHAL, YOUR ENERGY! Let’s not get into it, just talking about it is exhausting for people like me.
You and all the mentors saw me, observed me, shredded me to pieces, then built me back up in ways I didn’t know I needed. Everything from being relaxed, focusing and not moving all the time, this workshop has not only helped me with just acheiving my dream of performing on stage but has given me ACTIONABLE insights on my own, very real personality.
Thanks Vishal. (Sir)
They say Rome wasn’t built in a day. No, sir, it was built in, precisely, six weekends!
The Community:
For a long time, I hadn’t understood the difference between being alone and lonely. Until 4 years ago, I got to. The loneliness had crept in every nook and corner of my life. That loneliness led to me foregoing every opportunity I was presented with to make my life a better place but I let every opportunity pass by. I just didn’t act. When it became too much, and I got a chance to write the blank slate over again, I held it with every inch of my existence and turned around my life.
Now I’m in a much, much better place. But that trauma is still very much a part of my personality. The fact that is ingrained within me is that if I don’t move a lot, I feel like I’m letting things go again and the place that it leads to is not a very awesome place.
You pointed it out and told me it’s not a thing I should be proud of very much. I let go of the moving thing, and my world didn’t come crashing down after Sunday! Thanks a lot, Vishal sir, again and again and again!
This community gives me immense satisfaction and relief to realize that I’ll never have loneliness ever again. Even if I get exhiled by my entire world right now, I know I’ll have some people who’ll accept as I am. Thank you, Baba and every single person of the community who have kept that feeling alive!
Personality changes:
I now,
• Focus a lot better
• Not shuffling around much
• More expressive in terms of my face
• Voice changes while conversing
• A LOT more confident when it comes to people
• More open when it comes to being vulnerable
- Not concerned about making mistakes anymore
• More comfortable with making a fool out of myself
• More accepting and approving of people as they are
• BELIEVE I AM A PERFORMER!
So, unlimited gratitude to you, Baba and the whole misfit gang for allowing me to take up L1, thrive, get beaten up then rise again sensationally!
And Finally, You, Vishal:
All my friends who came to the final grading show day on Sunday said one thing in common, You have a “Wazandaar” personality and voice, Vishal.
And I told every single one of them the same thing, that, he’s not just an actor, a teacher, a mentor or an elder brother. Whatever good you see in me now-a-days, it’s because of him! He’s a walking-talking personality crash course. If you spend even 10 minutes with him, you’re life will get 1 percent better than it is now. I know you’ve said multiple times to not put you on a pedestal. BUT, BUT, I thought about it and I realized there are close to zero people who I’ve met and talked to and PUT THEM ON A PEDESTAL. People usually say never meet your on-screen heroes. YOU WERE THE JHAKAAS KICKASS LIFE SAVER Hero I didn’t know I needed, sir. I know I’m always laughing and goofing around and that leads people to not take me seriously when I want them to.
You somehow always knew when it was time for you to take me serious and that made me feel almost teared up inside. So even if you say not to put you on a pedestal, for every person coming in to the misfit community, you are the pedestal! The pedestal to rise above themselves!
Learn to take the compliment, sir! (OWN THE MOMENT!) If a lot of people whose lives you’re touching are saying the same thing, then you must be doing so many things right! (That was a little out of my place, but I just said it and I’m sorry!)
I just want to end with the note that what you’re doing is very noble, Sir. Fullfilling people’s dreams, making them realize their potential, not allowing them to undermine themselves against the world and exposing them to the exhilariting and exciting world of Stage, Lights and Drama!
Thank You So So So Much! VISHAL & THE WHOLE MISFIT GANG!