If you haven’t listened to “Indian Noir”, then you have missed a lot. Indian Noir is one of the best creatives you can ever find in storytelling and voice acting podcasts.
But before we get onto it, let me ask you a question.
What do you work on – your weaknesses or, your strengths?
A common tendency in the most of us is to always work on our weaknesses and let our strengths remain.
After all they are out strengths. Isn’t it?
This isn’t really a bad strategy. But then one thing we fail to acknowledge is that it is our strengths that will take us places. While weaknesses can be plugged to help us from stuttering, focusing on strengths is what will take us to where we intend to go.
So, as you work on your weaknesses, it is important to perfect your strengths. Perfect it to a point where you have no competition at all.
And that is precisely what Nikesh Murali did, which is why his podcast Indian Noir is breaking all records on pretty much every podcasting platforms.
His show, “Indian Noir” is a critically acclaimed, chart-topping podcast featuring thrilling crime and horror audio stories set in India, featuring Indian characters.
Indian Noir has been featured in the Harper’s Bazaar, CBC, The Hindu and many other well known media as well.
It has won rave reviews on major podcasting platforms from critics and listeners alike and is a chart-topper on almost all podcasting platforms.
In this episode we talk to Nikesh Murali and understand his perspective of podcasting and what goes behind the scenes of his podcast – Indian Noir.
The Art of Perfecting Your Strengths with Nikesh Murali(Indian Noir)
Storytelling is an art. But if you have to immerse your audience in your stories, then it needs a unique talent of voice acting and narration. And if you have to mesmerize your audience with your narration, then you need to be Nikesh Murali.
Our guest on the show today is
an internationally acclaimed spoken poetry artist. His readings of some of the greatest poets of this generation on Twitter & Instagram (@indiannoir) are viral sensations, which have been viewed over a million times. His work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 2007.
He is a professional voice actor and an Amazon bestselling, Commonwealth Short Story Prize and DWL Story Prize-winning writer and has also received honourable mentions for the Katha Short Story Prize twice.
He was amongst the top creative talents from India (including Amitabh Bachchan, Karan Johar, Anil Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Tabu, Nawazuddin Siddiqui) selected to create original shows for Audible Suno.
He is the author of a multi-award winning, Amazon bestselling short story collection ‘The Killing fields’.
His novel ‘His Night Begins’, which was praised by Crime Fiction Lover magazine for its ‘terse action scenes and brutal energy’, was released to critical acclaim and earned him the tag of the ‘most hardboiled of Indian crime writers’ from World Literature Today Journal.
Here is some of the things we discussed on the show
- An essential storytelling skill that you can acquire by practice
- How to ensure that you are committed to producing regularly
- The advantage of producing a Fiction Podcast in comparison to writing a Fiction book
- The complete editing process in a one-man show, Fiction podcast
- Things to keep in mind when using music for your background scores.
- What’s in store for Indie podcasting in 2021
Resources mentioned in this episode
In this episode we spoke about a few resources. They are as below –
- Music and background scores – AudioHero
- Background scores – Output
- Podcasting microphone – Rhode NT USB mic
- Podcast editing software – Hindenburg Journalist Pro
- Noise removal plugin – Accusonus
- Standing Desk
- Podcast – Indian Noir
Thank You for Joining in
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You can tune in to listen to Nikesh’s chartbuster podcast at Indian Noir.
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