Ratan Thakore Grant

Ratan Thakore Grant is a theatre personality based in Bangalore. From theatre, television and film personality, Ratan has played the protagonist in several theatre productions for over two decades. Recent productions include Children of a Lesser God, Come and See My City from Here,^[1] Divorce Me, Darling!, Silly Cow and The Rainmaker. Film credits include the award winning film Jungle Boy (1998), Outhouse (1999) - an official Indian entry to Cannes, Minus 1 (2003) and the TV series Professor Vasan and South Parade. Ratan Thakore Grant has devoted much of his life to the advancement and propagation of theatre.

Grant is also the founder of the multilingual theatre group MiSF!T (My Interest Stays Firmly In Theatre), a name he coined as he always felt like a misfit during his growing years being 'dyslexic and painfully shy'.^[2] His assignments have included fashion shows, plays, and musicals.

MiSF!T Theatre Factory (MTF) was a concept conceived by Grant to use theatre as a foundation to performing arts – dance, music and technology. MTF encompass developing plays, writing original playscripts, interpreting existing play scripts and transforming scripts to actual plays. In doing so, MTF promotes free and open discussions on the process of play productions, theatre styles and the role and use of various types of technologies. "The end objective is to simply make theatre fun, interactive and enjoyable for both the actors and the audience, and bring in a special energy to the spirit of theatre in Bangalore", says Grant. He is currently Mentoring a Team from MSRIT in the Bangalore Theater Festival.^[3]

Grant has also been involved with choreography and dance instruction for close to 25 years.

Career

Movies

• Minus 1 – 2003
• Outhouse – 1999 ^[4]
• Jungle Boy – 1996

Television

• South Parade
• Professor Vasan

Plays

• Just Let Them – Oct 2011
• Pancake Helen – Oct 2009
• An Evening of Theatre - June 2008
• Scripted: Tiraa, Pinjra – March 2006
• Words, Laya, Chakravyuh – “I” – June 2005
• Audience on the Mat – May 2004
• The Imaginary Invalid – Oct 2002
• Children of a Lesser God – Sep, 2001
• Come See My City – Nov 1998
• Divorce Me, Darling! – Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1997
• Silly Cow – Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1997
• The Rainmaker - Jan 1991, Repeated in 1998
• The Hollow – Sep, 1989
• A Map of the World – May, 1989
• The Physicist – Jan, 1989
• Close Of A Play – Decccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1988
• Coralie Lansdowne Says No – Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1988
• Suddenly at Home – Feb, 1987
• All My Sons – Jan, 1986
• An Inspector Calls – Dec, 1983
• Moliere’s – The Hypochondriac (For National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore)
• Spider's Web by Agatha Christie (For St. Joseph’s College)

References

• MISFIT homepage
• Visit IMDb
• Ratan Grant talks about teaching
• Imaginary Invalid - The Hindu
• Imaginary Invalid - TOI
• Puja Goyal from Vijay Times
• Leslie Carvalho's The Outhouse
• Outhouse at the Cannes

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