New app on the block, BeReal, is catching on in India, and challenging users to shed the need for validation and perfection, and capture their lives, warts and all. You can post only once a day, and have two minutes to frame and click a picture—and the composition has to also capture your activity since the photograph is taken from the front and back camera simultaneously. Pass the time limit, and the photograph is posted with details of how much you overshot the time by and how many retakes you needed. Ouch. 

We spoke to two professionals, whose work involves putting themselves out there, and asked them whether they are able to keep it real.