From Wheelchair to Breakthrough | Tanaaz Irani in Manifest With IMK | Mitesh Khatri

15 Aug 2026 · 2 min

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In this unedited life‑coaching session, actress‑turned‑coach Tanaz Irani (referred to as Speaker A) shares deep anxieties about being perceived as a failure after a public rejection of a script and her health challenges that left her using a wheelchair. She expresses a belief that her identity as a ‘product of manifestation’ conflicts with the reality of not getting acting work, and worries that critics will define her worth. Coach Paridhi Dhingra (and briefly coaches Mitesh and Indu) guides her to surface these limiting beliefs, frames criticism as an emotional experience meant for healing, and uses techniques such as noticing bodily cringe and the paradox of ‘not playing the game’ to shift Tanaz’s relationship with failure. The dialogue repeatedly highlights the internal conflict between her love for acting and her emerging role as a life coach, aiming to bring clarity and self‑acceptance.

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People will think I'm a failure. The director threw the script on the face in front of everyone. A certain junction comes into my life. I fall ill. I'm on the wheelchair. I'm not walking very well. I was always a happy girl. I turn negative. I turn bitter.
People judging you, people criticizing you, calling you a failure. And that's the purpose. The purpose is always the emotional experience. The limiting belief that I can't do both 100%.
Now the problem with me is
For decades, Tanaz Irani has won hearts as one of India's most loved actresses. Beyond the spotlight, she discovered a new purpose as a life coach. But as her love for acting and coaching began to pull her in different directions, she found herself searching for clarity. In this raw, unedited session, coaches Mitesh and Indu help Tanaz explore the beliefs that have quietly been holding her back.
The reason there is an internal conflict is because if I want to feel this, it has to only come from here.
I want people to say that to really change my life.
And this is what we call as limiting beliefs.
But I just feel that an actor who's not working, people will think I'm a failure.
I don't like this part of me. I can't be this part.
I've always thought of myself as product of manifestation.
True healing would be somebody criticizing you and you being okay with it. You see the cringe in your body right now when you say that?
Yeah. I did the audition, I did everything. I like the take also, and guess what? I didn't send it.
You know what is the best way to not fail in a game?
Yeah.
So don't play the game.
Entire thing Is playing on me. Don't do it, Tanaz. Now the problem is.