Hindi Tv Serial Bournvita Quiz Contest Season-2 - Cast & Crew

Kiran Uttam Ghosh belongs to Kolkata, India, where she was studying at St Xavier’s College. To pursue her interest in fashion, she studied at Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai. After completing her studies, she went to London and worked and trained under well-known British fashion designer Jasper Conran. After coming back to India, she launched her own brand Kimono. She sells elegant couture and even sells accessories. Her brand is found in 22 stores across India and in eight countries all over the globe. These include Ogaan, New Delhi and Kolkata, Melange, Ensemble and Crossroad in Mumbai, Aza Fashions, 85Landsdowne, Elan, Zenon in Kolkata, Mohr, and Folio. She has done many shows, and her designs appear in many magazines. She knows that sales abroad aren’t that big as designers make them be, and it's the domestic clients that are larger in number. She excels in embroidery and believes it to be her area of specialization. She gives this credit to Kolkata.

Derek O’Brien is a popular Indian personality, known for hosting India’s longest-running game show, Bournvita Quiz Contest. He is also a Member of Parliament for Bengali’s All India Trinamool Congress. O’Brien was born on March 13, 1961, in Kolkata, West Bengal in India. He came from an Anglo-Indian household and his father, Neil O’Brien is a known personality in quizzing in India. He studied at St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata and later attended St. Columba’s School in Delhi, where he took an English course. Two years after, he went to Scottish Church College and started his career as a journalist for an Indian sports magazine. Later on, she shifted his career to advertising and has worked in one of the largest marketing company called Ogilvy.

Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 April 2012 which is a thing of pride. Shankar has always considered himself as a restless student wanting to learn more every time. He says he’s thirsty and want to learn every time and experiment with something new. He wants to be a perfectionist. Shanker also feels that Karnatak music is the most powerful form of music and he himself started with Karnataka classic which he says is the best to create a prominent base for music. Music is the thing which excites Shanker the most, and he would always be attached to it. Personal Life: Shanker Mahadevan was born in Chennai to a Tamil family but was later brought to Mumbai and was raised there. Being born into a Tamil family and later raised in Mumbai, he knows both Hindi and Tamil language but is not well versed with Tamil and Malayalam. He finished his schooling from OLPS High School in Chembur and his engineering in computer science from R.A.I.T (D Y Patil, Navi Mumbai). His wife, Sangeeta is Maharashtrian and oldest son Siddharth Mahadevan. Also, a singer, made his debut on the 2013 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’s song, Zinda. Shankar’s youngest son, Shivam Mahadevan, also a singer made his debut in 2013 in the movie Dhoom 3’s song, Bande Hain Hum Uske. Mahadevan is fluent in Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and English.

Loy Mendonsa is an Indian pianist, musician, and singer. He is more renowned as the member of the trio group Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, which he co-founded with singer Shankar Mahadevan and guitarist-singer Ehsaan Noorani. His career initially began for Doordarshan productions, where he composed the theme song of “The World This Week” show. Before the formation of his trio group, Loy has worked with the Indian music great A.R.Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan.

Ehsaan Noorani is one of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio, composing of three talented Indian musicians namely Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan himself and Loy Mendonsa. He is a popular music composer and guitarist. 

Ehsaan was born on October 12, 1963 in Hyderabad, India. He grew up in a place instilled with appreciation to different music genres at an early age. At 14, he started learning guitar under the teaching of Bismarck Rodriguez in Mumbai. During the mid 80’s, he attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), which is known as MI now. This became the turning point of his life as a musician as he slowly began to progress as a guitarist with huge potentials. He considered this period as ‘the best years of his life’. He went to Los Angeles, which is known to be the Music Capital of the World, and showed himself to the great musicians like Larry Carlton, Robben Ford and many more. 

Ehsaan was influenced by the famous bands of the 70’s like Pink Floyd, Led Zepellin, Wishbone Ash, Santana and Deep Purple. Since then, he became inclined and fond to the Blues; something about the genre has caught his whim and he continues to hold into it until today. He listened to BB King, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton and Robert Ford to help him in shaping up his Blues vocabulary and become a stepping-stone to his improvisation. 

When he returned to India, he worked with coposers like Louiz Banks for several advertising commercials and continues to create trends to the industry with his captivating tunes, expertise in guitar and his cleverness in music. This led him to compose music for commercials and just before he knew it, he was brainstorming with Shankar and Loy. The trio started to compose music for films and they were known as SEL. 

Composing music for films and commercials had helped him to experiment in various music styles like blues, metal, electronic, rock and country, but his heart is still fond of doing Blues and until now, he is still performing with his band called Apostrophe. 

Ehsaan together with Shankar Mahadevan have lent their vocals to several songs, including Yeh Dil Deewana from the 1997 Bollywod film Pardes, Vande Mataram from the 2000 comedy-drama film Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, and Mujhse Shaadi Karogi from the romantic comedy film Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge. He also lent his guitar pieces to songs made by many music directors like Vishal Shekhar for the songs Bin Tere and Sadka Kiya from the box-office hit film, I Hate Luv Storys and Small Town Girl from the rom-com film Bachna Ae Haseeno. 

To prove his mettle in the world of music, Ehsaan has won several accolades in his entire career for his work in films like Kai Ho Naa Ho, Bunty Aur Babli, Dil Chahta Hai, Kal Ho Naa Ho and Mission Kashmir.

Ashwyn Balsaver is an Indian sound engineer who works predominantly in the Hindi film industry. He is known for Prahaar: The Final Attack (1991), Zubeidaa (2001), and Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008). His other films are “Bharat Ek Khoj” TV Series (1988-1989), Rudaali (1993), Mammo (1994), Oh Darling Yeh Hai India (1995), Tarpan (The Absolution) in 1995, The Making of the Mahatma (1996), Sardari Begum (1996), Hari-Bhari (2000), and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005). Ashwyn Balsaver won the Best Sound Recording Award (Technical Award) for Zubeidaa at the Screen Awards, India, in 2002. He did the sound recording, editing, and designing for more than ten movies.