Ep. 575: feat. Nikhil Taneja

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 12:35 a.m.

This week, Cyrus is joined by the extremely jovial Nikhil Taneja, Co-founder & CEO, Yuvaa Originals and Festival Creative Director, India Film Project (IFP). In a super fun and funny conversation, Cyrus and Nikhil talk about Nikhil's career as an entertainment journalist, how he got into it at 14 years of age, his stories and experiences from interviewing top celebrities, interviews with Jagjit Singh, Shaan, Farhan Akhtar, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and many more, working with Cyrus at MTV, being a huge fan of MTV Roadies, working with Rhea Chakraborty on the movie 'Bank Chor' and her always being the sweetest person, telling his mother he wanted to do Arts in college but then ending up in engineering, the upcoming India Film Project (22nd-25th Oct, 2020) which is in it's 10th year now, how he ended up being the Creative Director and programmer for the festival, why there was a need to do it in these times, and lots more.

Check out India Film Project 2020 at: https://indiafilmproject.co/

Follow Nikhil on Instagram at https://instagram.com/tanejamainhoon?igshid=amfgh54pwlix and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tanejamainhoon?s=09

Do send in AMA questions for Cyrus by tweeting them to @cyrussaysin or e-mailing them at whatcyrussays@gmail.com

Don't forget to follow Cyrus Broacha on Instagram @BoredBroacha (https://www.instagram.com/boredbroacha)

In case you're late to the party and want to catch up on previous episodes of Cyrus Says you can do so at: www.ivmpodcasts.com/cyrussays

You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/android
or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios