manasella neene actress rashmi prabhakar who recently won the war against covid19 has turned an acting mentor for many aspiring and amateur actors through her acting workshop which she started in april this year the idea to start such a workshop she says was to be able to help students who cannot afford to enrol in acting schools there are many people in villages and other smaller towns who cannot afford paying a huge sum of money to enroll in an acting school or taking up an acting course but do dream of cracking a serial audition and making it big in kannada tv and hence after recuperating from covid i decided to spend the lockdown time doing something constructive when i came to industry nobody helped me and i had to do it all by myself and this journey also made me want to help others through my network and experience says rashmi who has completed a few workshops onlinespeaking about the teaching experience she says i always wanted to teach whatever i have learnt and unlearnt in my acting journey and have always wanted to help students improve their acting skills and hence decided to help them with that and started teaching during the last week of april more than teaching it was more of sharing my experience with them and telling them where they are going wrong when enacting a character from a script the workshop was also a learningofsorts for rashmi as well i never knew that i could interact with students and so many unknown faces and i was constantly worrying about how to make an impact through oral communication and also how to be more of a teacher than a kannada television face thanks to this experience i was able to communicate openly share my feedback with the attendees while they were enacting and i was able to give them the comfort zone so that they could act better she saysthe actress has also helped out students who were victims of fake audition calls while teaching i learnt that there were a few fake managers who were falsely circulating audition posters in social media with channel names and have been asking for money from the students to get them a kannada television association card and once the aspiring actor shares money the person absconds from the chat group and i have been taking screenshots of payments and conversations between them and sharing it on social media to spread awareness not just this i reached out to the kannada television association president and he has taken down all the details and has assured action against the culprits he has also said that he would be sharing an awareness video on the same soon with me wraps rashmi