Chasing Creativity with Kiran Manral

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with stand up comic Kajol Srinivasan on her journey into stand up, what it takes to be vulnerable in front of an audience, the misogyny that women often have to deal with and overcome when they go on stage, and escaping through a back door once, when someone took umbrage to something she joked about. Yes, it was political.  Don't miss...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, Kiran Manral talks about some of the absolute crazy, weird, totally cuckoo rituals that some absolute creative geniuses followed in order to be as productive as they were. These range from counting coffee beans to driving round country roads to spot a cow, and well, writing at the window as naked as the day you were born. Don't believe us? Listen in. Don't mi...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with Gayatri, an author of both fiction and nonfiction, columnist, mind body spirit therapist and the founder of Shamah | शम: a mind body spirit alignment practice, about her journey from journalism to mental and spiritual health and wellbeing, how she went about completely retraining herself midlife to change courses. The conversation...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with one of India's most popular authors, Anuja Chandramouli. The conversation delves deep into Anuja's earliest influences in storytelling, her grandmother's retelling of mythological tales, what Arjuna and Krishna mean to her, a surreal experience that led to her writing Karthikeya, the darkness of the down days for a creator, and wh...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with Sidharth Jain, who founded The Story Ink, India's largest books to screen adaptation company, as well as House of Talkies which produced the acclaimed Netflix series Trial By Fire. Sidharth chats about what producers are looking for in books to adapt, writing for different mediums, why he decided to produce House of Fire, and why...

The Forsaken Wilderness by Vivaan Shah is a thrilling tale of adventure, mystery, and spiritual atonement that takes the reader on a harrowing journey through the treacherous peaks of the Himalayas. We're very happy to present exclusive reading from his book The Forsaken Wilderness by Vivaan Shah. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we did. Don't miss this special episode! Follow Bingepods on Ins...

Actor, playwright, director and author, Vivaan Shah chats with host Kiran Manral in this episode of Chasing Creativity about his influences, his craft, why it is important to focus on being an actor and not a star, how theatre shaped his world view, the parallels and differences between performing for screen versus performing for theatre, and reads an enthralling excerpt from his latest book, The...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, Kiran Manral talks about the power of a simple walk in boosting creativity. She speaks about famous people who've sworn by their daily walk, what research says about how creativity is impacted by a good long walk, and how you should do it to really have your creative well refuelled.  Don't miss this special episode! Follow Bingepods on Instagram for more upda...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with one of India's most popular authors, Madhuri Banerjee, who is out with her latest book Life Switch. Apart from being a bestselling author, Madhuri is also columnist and screenwriter and has written the successful Bollywood film, Hate Story 2. We chat about how her books take a hard, unfiltered look at urban Indian women, their des...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with author and scriptwriter Anand Neelankantan, who has written some of the most popular mythological fiction of recent times, including the prequel to the block buster Bahubali, as well many popular OTT series including, Siya Ke Ram, Chakravarthy Ashoka, Mahabali Hanuman amongst others. Anand speaks about his childhood influences, gr...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with Swastika Mukherjee, who has in recent times delivered some of the most memorable performances we've seen with Qala, Paatal Lok, and more. She has a career full of unconventional and power packed roles in films like Bhooter Bhabishyat, Sahib Bibi Goolam and Shah Jahan Regency, amongst the many in her two decade long career. They ch...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with Leeza Mangaldas, who is amongst the foremost sexual awareness content creators in the  country. They talk about what led Leeza to begin creating content in this space, why conversations around sexual awareness are important, the questions she gets asked, the pressure to create content every day, the trolling she often has to deal...

In this episode of Chasing Creativity, host Kiran Manral chats with India's first female dastango , Fouzia, who practices the 16th Century art form of Dastangoi or oral storytelling. Fouzia tells us what made her take the leap into storytelling as a profession, where she gets her stories from, the contemporary retellings of traditional narratives and how she ensures she has women's stories upfront...

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