Hindi Awards Asian Viewers Television Awards 2018 - Cast & Crew

Gul Khan is one of the leading Indian Television producer, director and writer. She is the co-creative head and co- producer of 4 Lions Productions. She has written and produced many television soaps such as Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon, which had 398 episodes and which was aired from 2011 to 2012.

Jennifer Singh Grover, a popular Indian actress and anchor, was born as Jennifer Winget on 30th May 1985 in Mumbai. She’s the daughter of a Marathi Christian father and a Punjabi mother and she has an elder brother. She studied in St. Xavier’s High school and K J Somaiya College in Mumbai. She married her co-star, Karan Singh Grover, in April 2012. She bought a yacht for his 32rd birthday and can’t imagine her life without him. She enjoys shopping and accessorizing and believes that being herself is being fashionable.

She began her acting career at the young age of 12 and played minor roles in Hindi films like Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995), Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1997), Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya (2000), and Kuch Naa Kaho (2003). Her television career began with the role of Piya in Shaka Laka Boom Boom. She also played Sneha Bajaj in Kasautii Zindagi Kay, Natasha in Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa, Dr. Riddhima Gupta Malik in Dill Mill Gayye, and important roles in Kkusum, Sangam and Kahiin To Hoga. She’s currently famous as the female lead character of Kumud in the Star Plus serial, Saraswatichandra. 

Besides TV serials, she’s also hosted many shows including Dekh India Dekh, Laughter Ke Phatke, Zara Nach Ke Dikha 2, Comedy Ka Maha Muqabala, Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan and Star Holi Masti Gulal Ki and has participated as a contestant in shows like Comedy Circus 3 and Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout. 

Her achievements include numerous awards including Best Beti, Comic Role (Female), Best Villan (Female), Best Child Actress, Fresh Face of the Year, Best Patni, Best Jodi, Supporting Role (Female) and Best Actress awards.

Surbhi Chandna is a model and upcoming actress who has recently entered television and movies as well. She was born in Mumbai. She completed her schooling in Mumbai and later graduated from Atharva Institute of Management studies. Before getting into television, she has worked for Indian Princess Contest 2011. She has recently been signed for the TV serial ‘Qubool Hai’ as Hayaa Imran Qureshi, one of the lead characters. Here she plays the role of a dumb and deaf girl. Her innocence in this serial has already stolen everyone’s heart. The serial is telecasted in Zee TV. She also got a small character to play in the movie ‘Bobby Jasoos’ with Vidya Balan. She has done a number of commercials on television. Surbhi is a young and talented girl in her mid- twenties and is ready to give her best in building her acting career. This beautiful model and actress loves juicy fruits and have plenty of it, especially during summer. She avoids oily food. She doesn’t like hot food also. She is very fond of dancing and so includes Zumba in her workout regime. Surbhi loves travelling and Greece is one of her favorite holiday destinations.

Erica Fernandes, an Indian actress who moved from the modeling world to movies after finishing in the top ten in Miss India 2012. She has acted in many Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil language films. Born to Ralph and Lavina Fernandes in a Christian family in Mangalore, she was brought up in Mumbai. She finished her schooling at Holy Cross High School and finished her college from SIES. For further studies she opted Bachelors of Arts in St. Andrew’s College but later dropped out to pursue her modeling career. She kickstarted her career in modeling at the age of seventeen with a B-Blunt saloon. As a progressive step, she took to participate in Femina Miss Maharashtra 2011 and won that which lead her to Miss India contest where she finished in the Top ten rank. She was working in many films but due to delay in release, Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu became her debut film in Tamil film industry. In 2014, she began her career in Kannada films with ‘Ninnindale’. Her first Hindi movie was ‘Love is not Mathematics’ which was renamed after as ‘Babloo Happy Hai.’

Harshad Chopra is an Indian Bollywood actor and model who has acted in several serials and appeared in several reality shows. He is from the Gondia district in Maharashtra. Due to pressure from his parents, Harshad was forced to study engineering after moving to Pune after his schooling. He has reportedly said that he always wanted to become an actor and acting was a passion since his childhood. After his engineering, he went out to Mumbai to audition for Zee TV’s serial Mamta and landed the role of Karan Shrivastav.

Nakuul Mehta is an Indian Model, Anchor and an Actor who became popular for his performance as the main lead character in Rajshri Productions television serial, “Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyara Pyara” on STAR Plus channel. He played as Aditya Harish Kumar opposite Disha Parmar who played as Pankhuri Aditya Kumar. Nakuul has done some music videos and been working on theatre for a long time. He was part of the award winning and critically acclaimed stage play, Cock by Michael Barlett in 2013.

Sharad Malhotra, who is an Indian actor, was born on January 9th, 1983. Malhotra is from Kolkata who has done B.Com in St. Xaviers College. It was during the year 2003, he was selected as ‘Face of the Year – Kolkata’, after which he went to couple of acting workshops along with Samrat Mukherjee and Nishi Arora.