they were defintely astudy in contrast each complimenting the othercolleen khan was about poise soundarya rajnikanth about presentation colleen more conversational soundarya more formal but despite their diverse styles the two speakers at the times avenues had the audience mostly students at the threshold of making career decisions that will change their lives forever rapt in attention the event a collaborative effort between the times of india and the srm university was held on monday at the chinmaya heritage centre in chetpet a daylong event that covered various careers options as soon as she took the stage hairstylist and former model colleen khan asked the audience if they wanted her to speak about the industry she was in or if they just wanted to ask her questions almost immediately hands shot up in the air making it pretty clear that it the students were brimming with questions they were earger to get answers to for the next 20 minutes colleen answered question after question ranging from fashion designing to modelling from the market for a nail spa in chennai to how to open a salon colleens answers were to the point casual and very practical to a question on how to set up a salon she said you need a minimum of 500 square feet of space and basic investment of rs 5 lakh salaries for junior stylists can range from rs 4000 to rs 6000 while a senior stylist can even earn up to rs one lakh if they are very much in demand colleen managed to answer around 20 odd questions in the time she hadsoundarya managing director of ocher studios combined grace with a professional presentation armed with a laptop and standing tall behind the lecturn soundarya had all her information at her fingertips whether it was the history of animation or the intricacies of the world of 3d animation or the economics involved in the production of an animation movie soundarya was ready with information and tips her talk was peppered with an absolutely slick presentation of the all the work that ocher studios has done from advertisements to movies and of course her magnum opus sultan the warrior her fulllength 3d animation movie starring her father rajnikanth