Hindi Awards Mirchi Music Awards 2021 - Cast & Crew

Born on July 24, 1980, Lulia Vantur is a Romanian TV presenter and actress. She graduated with a degree in Law and started her career as a model and TV presenter at the age of 15. After four years, she started working for a local TV station, Europa Nova and then shifted to Bucharest in 2006. At Bucharest, she worked as a host for morning new shows and PRO TV show “Dancing with Stefan Banica”. She stated that she was a sportsperson and is especially interested in volleyball, tennis and basketball. 

Shraddha matured up in Mumbai and belongs to a large family of prevalent instrumentalists, vocalists, melody creators and artists. She has studied Hindustani Traditional Melody under her Granddad, Sangeet Acharya Former Shri. Pandit Pratap Narayan. Shraddha has sung for many productive music musicians including Amit Trivedi, Salim-Sulaiman, A. R. Rahman, Badshah, and many more. Her all-time successes are "Jigar Da Tukda", "Ae Shivani", "Rang Deeni", "Rab Rakha", "Manchandre Nu", and "Band Baja Baraat". Her latest hits are Aaj Raat Ka Scene and Pani Wala Dance. Shraddha has also published a record, Teri Heer in 2008 from Sony Music, where she composed lyrics and wrote all the tracks by herself. Her two siblings have prosperous professions in the Bollywood business where her sister, Shweta Pandit is also a well-known playback vocalist and her brother Yash Pandit is a movie and TV star.

Palak Muchhal's birth date is on 30th March 1992 into a Maheshwari Marwari family in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. She comes from middle-class family. She started singing since the age of four. In 1999, she spent a week singing door-to-door to collect funds for Kargil war soldiers. She has been performing shows since March 2000 and donated the amount for the hospitalization expense of children suffering from heart diseases.

Shruti Pathak stepped into the film industry as a singer. Her first two songs, 'Sudu Sude', 'Guchchi Guchchi' for a Telugu movie, ‘Bujjigadu: Made in Chennai’ and the next song, 'Awaara Dil' for the Hindi movie, Money Hai Toh Honey Hai, weren't massive hits. However, on her third strike towards her goal of becoming a star singer, she hit it with 'Mar Jawaan', from ‘Fashion’.

Antara Mitra was born on 10th July 1987 in the state of West Bengal. She is a very famous playback singer, who is absolutely good with her vocals. The solid platform which gave her an avenue to the Bollywood film industry was her participation in a reality show of Sony TV. The name of the show is Indian Idol of season two which took place in the year 2006. She was an active participant of the show, which turned out to be the key reason for her entry into playback singing. 

Antara Mitra had an absolute enthusiasm in singing and her father was the one who motivated her. This had moulded her to become the finalist of the shows Indian Idol 2 and Junoon. Inspite of the fact that she could not turn up to be the title winner of the show, she became a prominent singer which gave immense bliss for the singer. Her initial dream was always to pursue a career in the arena of medicine, but her passion towards singing brought her to the wonder world of Bollywood Cinema. 

Her father is a tutor in music and she learned music right from her age of three. Her immense potential in singing has been manifested rather than getting latent and she made it quite evident in her movies. The versatile part of Antara is that she is pretty much capable of singing in about multiple languages. 

This includes Bengali, Hindi, English and Urdu. She is a very consistent singer in the Bollywood film industry. In the Indian Idol 2 contest, Antara proved her skills in a splendid way upon the Theatre, Piano and Gala rounds. After her overwhelm in the contest, she gave some unforgettable performances in the stage shows. This highlighted her blissful singing in a sharp manner and the exquisite aspects of her voice articulation.

Ila Arun is of the star sign Pisces being born on 14th March in Jaipur, Rajasthan where she was also brought up. Her siblings are Piyush Pandey, Prasoon Pandey, Rama Pandey and Tripti Pandey, none of them a part of the Bollywood business like their sister. Ila completed her education graduating from the Maharani Girls’ College in her hometown and is popular for acting and singing, mostly for the latter. Her strong, husky voice of earthy tones has proved her an incomparable singer in Rajasthani folk/folk-pop fusion songs while dabbling in other genres including classical music.

Vijay Dayal is a Sound Engineer and Recordist. He is the Chief Sound Engineer at Yash Raj Films. He is the head of India’s leading audio recording faculty, so he has to ensure the proper functioning of the facility as well as record and mix the songs at both the studios. He has worked for over 20 years in the field of sound engineering. He has been a part of several vital and path-breaking projects.

Jeet Ganguly is one of the most prominent and active music composers and music directors in the Bollywood and Tollywood film industry. His birth name was Chandrajeet Ganguly but he uses a shortened name in the industry. He was born on 24 May 1977 in Mumbai. His family later moved to Baranagar in Kolkata. His father was Kali Ganguly, a renowned musician in West Bengal. It was under his father whom Jeet was trained in classical music.

Shail Hada, the famous voice behind the soulful renditions such as ‘Saawariya’, ‘Lahu Muh Lag Gaya’, ‘Tung Lak’ and numerous others is a small town boy who was born on April 11, 1975, in the ‘Rajasthani’ town of ‘Kota’. Shail, as well as his family, were serious about a career in music is a fact evident from the way his education progressed. His initial schooling happened at Kota itself at the St. Paul School, Mala Road which was followed by his B.A. and M.A. in Music from the ‘University of Kota’. Followed by this he did his ‘Sangeet Visharad’ from’ Gandharva Mahavidyalaya’ under the guidance of his Guru ‘Pt. Aaskaran Sharma’. Post his ‘Visharad’, he shifted to Mumbai and joined the Music Department at Mumbai University.

Shantanu Moitra is a music composer in Bollywood. He rose to popularity with films like ‘Parineeta’(2005) for which he received Filmfare R.D. Burman Award. After the success of ‘Parineeta’, his association with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra was path-breaking one. He followed it up with Lage Raho Munnabhai’, ‘3 Idiots’ and ‘Eklavya: The Royal Guard' and 'PK'. He has also composed music for Shoojit Sircar’s two films ‘Shoebite’ and ‘Madras Café’. While ‘Shoebite’ remains an unreleased film still, ‘Madras Café’ got released. 

Yashraj Mukhate was born on 28th November 1989 in Aurangabad, India. He is a Music Composer whose video “Rasode Mein Koun Tha” went viral during the lockdown in August 2020. His Saath Nibhana Saathiya gained major popularity. He is an engineer but is very interested in music. After this video went viral with over 3 million views on Instagram, he made other raps as well. In December 2020 he made a rap of the famous dialogue by Bigg Boss 13 contestant Shehnaaz Gill. The dialogue is “Sada kutta kutta touda kutta Tommy”. It got so hit that even the Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone danced to this song at Ranveer Singh’s birthday party. Dananeer Mobeen, a girl from Pakistan who went viral on social media for her video “Pawri Ho Rahi Hai”, inspired him to make his next rap. This rap too became a big hit and was trending in Pakistan and India.

Javed Ali (Javed Hussain) was born in Delhi in 1982. He has been working as an Indian playback singer since 2000. Ali started his singing journey at a very early age with his father, who is a popular Qawwali singer named, Ustad Hamid Hussain. He is also a playback singer in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, and Tamil. 

He has been singing since 2000, but his song “Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein” from the film Naqaab (2007) made him famous in Bollywood. After that, he sang hit song like Jashn-E-Bahaara from the Movie Jodha Akbar (2008). He also sang the song Guzarish (Ghajini) and Maula mere Maula (Arziyan). Javed started his career by singing the song for movie Beti No.1, but this couldn’t help him to grow up his career. After that, he worked in many movies like Chameli, Golmal, Ho Gaya Na, Dil Jo Bhi Kahey, Neal n Nikki and Zindagi Rocks. His song Nagada Nagada with Sonu Nigam from the movie “Jab We Met” has been a great hit. Also, his song “Tu Muskura” along with Alka Yagnik and A R Rahman from movie Yuvvraaj had hit. 

He has also sung many songs in Tamil movies like Siragugal, Chinnanjirusuga Manasukkul, Kungumapoovum Konjumpuraavum, Maattrraan, Thuppakki, Alex Pandian, and Singam 2. Javed Ali has even sung many Telugu songs in popular movies like Tanemando, Maham Maye, Alibaba, Surro Surra, Raccha Rambola, O Meri Jane Jana, Ori Devudo, and Vachchaadu.

He was also seen as a judge for the show “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs” in 2011 which is a famous reality show on Zee TV.

Aditya Narayan is an Indian Television Actor, Anchor, Playback Singer and Music Composer and a very good singer too. Aditya Narayan was born on 6th August 1987 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India in the family of Singers. His father is Udit Narayan and mother is Deepa Narayan both of them are singers in the Music World. He was a singer from his childhood and now he is the Super Star of Television. He passed his Schooling from the Utpal Shanghvi School, Mumbai in the year of 2003. He did his graduation from Mitthibai College of Commerce of Mumbai, India. He did his training for Music under Maestro Kalyanji. After that, he completed his diploma in English contemporary music at Tech Music Schools, in London and after his return to India he was called for the audition of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa show in the year of 2007. He also hosted Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge in 2008.He is successful in his career as a singer, dancer and music composer. He is much known for his best song ‘Chhota Baccha Jaan Ke’ for which he is awarded at Screen Awards for the film Masoom in 1996. He is also known for hosting Sa Re Ga Ma Pa in the year 2007 and 2010 respectively and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs in the year 2008. He is also known as playback singer for his songs in various films like Ram Leela, Shaapit, Chal Chalein, Papa The Great, Raja Ko Rani Se Pyaar Ho Gaya, Biwi No.1, Pardesi Babu, Chachi 420, Hum Saath-Saath Hain and many other movies. He also played as a child artist in various films like Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai, Rangeela and Pradesh. He is a successful guy from his childhood and we wish him all the best for his future.

On 22 July, 1995, Armaan Malik was born in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a playback singer by profession. Armaan belongs to a music family. His father, Daboo Malik, is also a singer and music director. The singer is the nephew of the famous Hindi music director, Anu Malik. Armaan has a brother, Amaal Malik, who is also a music director.

Mithoon Sharma is a singer and music director in Bollywood movies. He is the son of veteran background music composer Naresh Sharma, who has provided background musical score for over 200 films.  
Mithoon was born on born January 11, 1985. At a young age, he got a break to compose with Anu Malik for film ‘Zeher’ for one song ‘"Woh Lamhe Woh Baatein"’. The song was a hit, and entry in Bollywood became easier for him. IN 2006, he got the opportunity to compose along with Pritam for ‘Bas Ek Pal’. The song "Tere Bin" which had music by Mithoon was voted as one of the best songs during 2006. 

Shravan Rathod is a well-known music composer and is a member of the famous duo of music directors Nadeem - Shravan. Shravan is known to be one of the innovators of Hindustani music and his works, along with Nadeem Saifi, are considered to be one of the most professional works in the whole Bollywood industry. This musical duo was at their peak during the 90s and the 2000s. The duo's specialty is that all of their works have done majorly using three particular Hindustani instruments, namely, the shehnai, the sitar, and the bansuri. 

Sonu Sood is a famous Indian Cinema actor, model who is famous for portraying Chhedi Singh in the Salman Khan Starrer Dabbang, for which he received the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role and IIFA Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Besides working in Bollywood movies, He has also acted in Tollywood, Kollywood and Kannada language films. Sood was born on July 30th, 1973. Sood’s father is an entrepreneur and his mother was a professor, he grew up in Nagpur and received his degree in Electrical Engineering. He is from Moga, Punjab, who made his debut as an actor in 1999 with the Tamil film Kallazhagar. His first Bollywood debut was in 2002 in the movie Shaheed-E-Azam where he portrayed the role of Bhagat Singh. The Movie could not hit the screens due to a controversy and it was banned. Sood has also participated in the Mr India pageant and appeared in commercials of Apollo tyres and Airtel. Having won critical acclaim for his work in Tollywood movies, he received the Nandi Award for Best Villain and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in Telugu for the role of Pashupathy in the movie Arundhati. Sood has worked in well acclaimed movies like Yuva(2004), Ashiq Banaya Apne(2005), Athadu(2005), Jodha Akbar(2008), Dookudu(2011) and Shootout At Wadala(2013). Sood married his wife Sonali on September 25th, 1996 who hails from Andhra Pradesh and holds a degree in MBA. He also has two sons named Ishant and Aryan. He went to fulfil his childhood dream of becoming an actor, by getting a break as a villain in a Tamil movie for which he had to shave his head. His favorite co-stars to work with are Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan. He is a teetotaler and a fitness freak who loves to exercise regularly.

Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record label owned by Gulshan Kumar, his first break came in 1990 when he did playback singing in the movie called Janam. In 1995 he started hosting the popular musical TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, after which he delivered the famous single Acha Sila Diya Tune for the film Bewafa Sanam. Some of his famous tracks are Sandese Aate Hai from the movie Border (1997), Ye Dil Deewana from the movie Pardes (1997). In 1999 he released his debut album Deewana, he also sang the title track for the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. As an individual composer he has worked on movies like Singh Saab The Great, Sooper Se Ooper and Jal. Nigam has contributed in Britney Spears track I Wanna Go, and has also released a track in the album The Beat of Our Hearts as a tribute to Michael Jacskon. In his small acting career he has acted in films like Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani, Love In Nepal and Kaash Aap Humaare Hote. Nigam is married to Madhurima and also had a son named Neevan.

Raj Kumar Yadav, also known as Rajkummar Rao, started his Hindi film career from the movie, Love Sex aur Dhokha, in the year 2010, but the movie that got him critical and public acclaim was Kai Po Che, for which he received the Filmfare Award for the Best Supporting Actor, in the year 2013. He has not looked back since then, and has received Filmfare Best Critics Award for Best Actor and National Film Award for the depiction of the lawyer, Shahid Azmi, in the movie, ‘Shahid’, that released in the year 2013. Since then he has starred in numerous Hindi films, and has established a unique style of acting and an intense position in the industry.