Cyrus Sahukar - Everyone Needs to Feel Like They Are Important and That's the Best Motivation - Acceptance, and Love (Indian VJ)

Cyrus Sahukar

The favorite part of my job is that it's such a privilege. If you are employed or seems to be employed in my job that work is a place where you almost reach the level of belief where a collection of people get together and create something. It's a very privileged job if you can fine up work and actually help career image. The fact that I can travel, go to a new place. I meet people, I sometimes work with a crew that I never worked with before. 

1. Tell us more about your background and journey. 

Well I grew up in Delhi started working at a very very young age and I got very lucky that I win the MTV VJ hunt. From there I very much Hustled my way into different things in life whether it is radio or a theatre or television or film. There was nobody in the family who was really interested in media and performance. My mother was a writer but what I mean by this is there is no one connected to the field and so I had to find my way and putting on my own. At the age of 18, I moved to Bombay.

2. What skills should someone in your field have?

I think that there is a basic number of skills that you need. I think one is the major communication skills. You need a deep interest in human beings because you know when you give a large amount of life to human beings, meeting people and if you don't like people then that could be the worst thing. Even more important thing than that the skill during this field is to construct of your mind come up with ideas and keeping fluent ideas and constantly innovate. 

I think that the thing which career and media are unlike framed the way where one person has a long career of 25-30 years back and things keep changing medium keeps shifting so here's your need a lot of, hands in quiet of few baskets just to survive. So a person would be multi-talented. It must be innovative. I think a person has 3 basic skills - hardworking, communicator, listeners. 

Most people like to just talk and not listen I think you should become a good listener if you want to be a good host. If you are ready to work hard at the skills then it's all you need as a basis of everything and the rest of the techniques which you can learn or pick up as time goes by.

3. What is the most favorite part of your job?

The favorite part of my job is that it's such a privilege. If you are employed or seems to be employed in my job that work is a place where you almost reach the level of belief where a collection of people get together and create something. It's a very privileged job if you can fine up work and actually help career image. The fact that I can travel, go to a new place. I meet people, I sometimes work with a crew that I never worked with before. 

The feeling of movement, the feeling of getting my, packing my suitcase leaving for a certain place, spending time than working, makes me very happy. In fact, I think I am happiest at work. Everything about my job - meeting new people, trying new characters, trying to make people laugh, trying to entertain people, being part of another people's celebration all of it I really enjoy.

4. How do you create motivation for yourself and your team?

It's very difficult to stay motivated and I don't think I should be talking about drooling over vibes of staying motivated because I feel it very often your brain just doesn't listen. Every stable constant relationship between training the mind and getting to do your own and makes a real human being. I tried my best to do things within a small pocket for half an hour then take 10 minutes break. 

I tried to update myself with interesting information and conversation about things that inspire me and that I think just need you to stay motivated. The secret of motivation that it turns all the good things to you in a happy way. Motivation is a difficult thing to stay activated all the time. I think I don't let things that lose. I don't linger too long on losses. I don't linger too long on worrying about what other people are doing and think. 

More than motivation, I try to keep my brain when I am working especially away from all the problems of life because life is full of problems and drama so when I am working I try to forget those and just do what I am doing and keep myself motivated and happy. My team also needs that. You need to spread love and joy and acceptance. Everyone needs to feel like they are important and that's the best motivation - Acceptance, and Love.

5. What drive you to opt for VJ?

I was very unaware. I was very young. I was only 17-18 years old and at that point, it was the biggest step. Everybody wants to be a VJ. That is a factor I became one was super lucky and I just went for it. When I was very young I wanted to become a documentary filmmaker, a filmmaker also and at that point, an opportunity came my way and I had such little opportunity at that point in my life. 

I had a desperation to do something in my life so there was one time I was trying and I got to know there was an addition to be a VJ in MTV beats. There are thousands of people going there and this was the best decision and I feel I am very lucky. I was in Delhi and Indian media MTV was a massive channel and so I took that chance. From there other work came to me.

6. What has been your biggest success factor?

Quite a few things happen in my life but I think the best thing that happened when I  look back in my life, the most useful thing that happened to me is I went to MTV VJ hunt when I was 18 and it changed my life. After that, I have just been working and that could be the big change.

Cyrus Sahukar

Cyrus Sahukar

Cyrus Sahukar - Indian VJ

Interviewed By: Vanshikha Bagga