About this episode

Cyrus Broacha discusses the unconventional career journey of Kailashnath Koppikar and Aakash Mehta, exploring themes of comedy, film, and cricket.

Most people collect degrees to build a career. Kailashnath Koppikar collected an MBBS, an MBA, film-school experience, jobs in cinema and television, ghostwriting work and then decided to start doing open mics.Naturally, Cyrus is offended on behalf of every Indian parent.Kailashnath and Aakash Mehta joins Cyrus Broacha to discuss his journey from medicine to NFDC, film production, television and stand-up comedy. They also get into Backspace, the importance of doing the unglamorous work, Aakash’s international tour and the strange economics of performing comedy abroad.The conversation then behaves like every  Cyrus Says  episode should: Christopher Nolan eating at Olympia, alcohol becoming a vaccine, unsuccessful fishing trips, Bollywood feuds, cricket fans, Rajinikanth in Japan, ancient Egyptian gold tongues and current affairs solved with absolutely no responsibility.Come for the career advice. Stay because nobody remembers what the original topic was. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Cyrus Broacha

Guests: Kailashnath Koppikar, Aakash Mehta

Topics covered

• career transition
• comedy
• film production
• cricket
• current affairs

Keywords

• comedy
• film production
• stand-up
• cricket
• career advice
• international tour
• Bollywood
• current affairs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NFDC, Bollywood

Books & works: Backspace

Places: Japan, Olympia, Egypt

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