Aanakaryam Chenakaryam Bingepods

'When you say rebel without a cause.. Was, am and I will be!'

Femina Ms India contestant, successful model and now an experienced yoga instructor. Hear Anugraha Unnikrishnan's interesting journey and experiences that has shaped the person she is today.

From being barely able to climb 2 feet to scaling 12,250 feet, Syama Sreekumari achieved this in four year by consciously making a choice to change her life for her own wellbeing.As a child Syama was obese but instead of helping her she was fat shamed and teased. Thanks to a friend who was concerned about her well being and Syama’s own determination she set herself a goal to lose weight and become healthy. Listen to her journey and advice on what you can do to loose weight and change your life or give positive support to help your family and friends who need the motivation to make that change.

It takes courage to leave a stable job - specially if you have a young family to take care off - and follow your dreams and passion.

Australian Indian Film maker Jay Janardhan a.k.a Jay J’dan started his career as an engineer, but he felt something was missing and then he discovered his passion for filmmaking. Hear his journey of life as a student in Australia to becoming an award winning Film Director and his future goals.

Jay is a member of Australian Director’s Guild (ADG) and has worked in the Australian Film Industry since 2015 on various Hollywood productions like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2015), Kong: Skull Island (2016), Thor: Ragnarök (2016), Aquaman (2017) and Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019).

A graduate from Queensland School for Film and Television in Australia, Jay was awarded “Best Film Maker” in 2016. His debut directorial short film LUCA (2017) won several accolades and official selections to international festivals - Los Angeles Film Awards, Miami Independent Film Festival, Sydney Indie Film Festival, Benalla Film Festival, Lake View International Film Festival, Jaipur Film World etc.

Recently Jay worked as an Assistant Director to legendary South Indian film maker JOSHIY (Porinju Mariam Jose 2019) and also as an Associate Director to film maker R S Vimal on various upcoming projects (including Mahavir Karna 2021). His international production house Silent Panda Pictures excels in conception, execution and delivery of short films, TV Commercials, Music and Corporate Videos throughout Australia.

"How do you change a system? When you are in a system and you get ahead, you change it!"

Supermodel, Performance Artist and Farmer, Tinu Verghis uses her achievements and position to challenge and expose preconceived notions.

"Create your individuality. Never be ashamed of who you are!" Hear Tinu's story in conversation with Aanakaryam Chenakaryam

Born as Nitin but identifying as Maya - The journey of a brave young woman to live out life as herself. In this episode we explore the support or lack of it, the stigma, ignorance and bullying a transgender person has to go through when they come out to society. Maya also explains what a cisgender person can do to support and help. 

"The reasons for my singing career's success is because I know how to dance. The joy I get from singing is incomparable!" - Benny Dayal

Benny Dayal the versatile multi lingual Indian singer whose repertoire of music includes Jai jai Shivashankar, Badtameez Dil, Bang Bang, Omana Penne and Catherine Dayal dancer, actor and blogger talk to us about being Benny & Cathy.