Animation: A day in the life of Akash Karmakar (the video is loading, may take long. Please bear with us...)

8:00 am: Crows start waking him up in his bedroom in Mahim. He does not use an alarm clock. He stays in bed in a daze. 9:00 am: He finally gets up, puts on some trance music and takes a shower, making sure the music can be heard in the bathroom. 10:00 am: Gets in his Maruti Zen and drives to Prana Studios in Bandra Kurla Complex. 10:15 am: Grabs a coffee and checks his email. 11:00 am to 1:00 pm: Attends meetings and participates in project-related discussions, and meets team leaders to review work. Sometimes he has to show hairstyles his team has made to his superiors and receive feedback. 1:00 pm: Has a chicken teriyaki or bacon melt at Subway, with chips and juice. 2:00 pm: Sits down with his team and gives them feedback from the morning meetings. Helps them with their work. 8:00 pm: Finishes his main work, but stays in the office, trying to come up with new ways of using the software or designing characters. 9:00 pm: Heads home. 9.30 pm: Gets home, take a shower, put on trance music and eats dal, vegetables and rice prepared by his maid. 10.30 pm: Meets friends in Poison or Toto's in Bandra 1:00 am: Goes home 1.30 am: SleepsGo back to Hot New Careers