Carve Your Destiny

Carve Your Destiny is an upcoming documentary film by Anubhav Srivastava. The film seeks to investigate the mentality of successful individuals through interviews with achievers from several fields.
List of Interviewees
The following are the Indian personalities that are confirmed to appear in the film so far:
1) Kiran Bedi: Former Indian female police officer, social activist and television personality. Recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
2) Sushil Kumar: Olympic Medal Winner in Wrestling (Beijing Olympics 2008). Recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the highest sporting honor in India.
3) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: Wealthiest woman in India, Padma Bhushan Awardee and Chairperson of Biocon, the largest Biotechnology Company in India.
4) Sheila Dixit: The Chief Minister of Delhi and India's representative on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from 1984 to 1989.
5) Deepak Puri: The chairman of Moser Baer, the second largest optical storage media manufacturer in the world.
6) Vinod Dua: Eminent Television Presenter and a Padma Shri awardee presently working with NDTV.
7) Jatin Das: Acclaimed Indian Painter
8) Som Mittal: President of NASSCOM
9) Shiv Khera: International Author and Motivator
10) Ekta Chowdhary: Miss India Universe 2009
Background
The documentary is among the first motivational films from India featuring interviews with prominent personalities from diverse fields. One of the reasons for its creation, despite the existence of similar films internationally was gaining insight into principles for success from prominent achievers unrelated to the self help industry. Anubhav Srivastava believed that knowledge from such people would be considered more credible among the masses. With the exception of Shiv Khera, all of the interviewees have attained eminence in fields unrelated to personal development.
Anubhav Srivastava created the concept for the project in 2007, at the age of 21, while pursuing his studies at a university in New Delhi. The project was originally conceived as a possible entry to SIFE, an international inter-university competition. However, it was rejected at the university as the implementation of the idea was not considered feasible. After the early disappointment, he then decided to pursue the film independently although he was initially doubted due to his young age, lack of relevant contacts and prior filmmaking experience. The shooting for the film began in late 2007 with the first interview being that of Kiran Bedi just prior to her retirement from the Indian Police Service. However, most of the other interviews have been conducted in 2008 and 2009.

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