Hindi Tv Show Bigg Boss Season 17 - Cast & Crew

Manasvi Mamgai is a model and actress. She was born on 10th October 1989 in Delhi, India. She took education in Chandigarh. Her parents are basically from Uttarakhand. During school days, she participated in many dancing and skating competitions and eventually won many of them. She won the ‘Best Dancer’ Award when she was 14; the awards were given by ‘Shinchang Institute of Performing Arts and also Chandigarh Art Theatre. Manasvi started her modeling career by signing up along Elite Model Management India.

We would all remember her as, "Chaya" Parvati's sister-in-law in ‘Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii’ telecasted on ‘Star Plus’. It was one of the most popular shows under Balaji Productions. Her real name is ‘Rinku Dhawan Karmarkar’. Rinku is married to actor ‘Kiran Karmarkar’ who played her brother (Om) in the show 'Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii' and is also seen in Bollywood movies like ‘Force’. She is blessed with a son, “Ishaan” who is seven years old. The show won many awards including ‘Indian Telly Awards’ for ‘The Best Drama Series’ in 2002. The show was very popular with a high TRP. She is also known for the daily soap opera ‘Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha’ (2012). In this programme, she played a double role. She played a comic character, that loves drama and likes to be a drama queen. This show was filmed in ‘Indore’ and gave her a huge fan following during its filming. She was also seen in ‘Palampur Express’ show, that was telecasted on Sony. She played the role of ‘Sudha Bua’ – the aunt of Pavni. Her character in show was very nice, good hearted and humorous. She is a family oriented person and likes to spend as much time as possible with her family. She even likes to be a homemaker and respects it. She respects her husband's priorities and supports him in every possible way. She is ready to do theater, play, daily soaps, and reality shows too.

Ankita Lokhande was born on 19 December, 1984, in Indore to a Maharashtrian family. She has finished her schooling and college from Indore itself. Her father is a businessman and her mother is a housewife. Before working on Pavitra Rishta, she struggled a lot to get a decent break. Ankita got an opportunity to show her talent on Zee Cine superstar Ki Khoj in the year 2006, where she was chosen as one of the participants from Indore. Ankita Lokhande was supposed to have started her acting career with the show Bali Umar Ko Salaam in 2008 along with Jay Soni, but due to some unknown reason the show was dropped off. Ankita came into limelight when she took up the leading role of Archana in the daily soap Pavitra Rishta on Zee T.V. This show is one year old now, but still gaining popularity and Ankita is definitely main reason for that.  Besides television, Ankita Lokhande is a good stage performer. Ankita Lokhande has performed in the dancing show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.

A model turned actress, producer, entrepreneur and now, mom, Shilpa Shetty has excelled in every field she’s touched so far. Born in the city of dreams, Bombay, started off as a model in the advertising industry with a Limca commercial. She went on to do more ad-films and pretty soon landed her first movie Baazigar (1993) directed by the popular duo Abbas-Mastaan, famous for their bone-chilling thrillers. The movie earned her Filmfare nominations for Best Actress in a supporting role and Lux new face of the year. These became the first of many awards she went on to receive in her career over the years. With over 40 movies on her tab, she has acted not only in Hindi but also in the languages of Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil.

Farah Khan is an Indian film actress, producer, director and a choreographer. She was born on January 9, 1965 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Menaka, sister of screenwriter and actress, Honey Irani and Daisy Irani. She is also the sister of film actor and comedian Sajid Khan and the cousin of film personalities Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar. Farah was married to Shirish Kunder, a film writer, producer, director, composer and the editor of her directorial film Main Hoon Na in 2004. The two have worked together in films like Jaan-E-Mann, Tees Maar Khan and Om Shanti Om. She gave birth to triplets, composing of one boy and two girls in year 2008. 

She studied Sociology in Mumbai’s St. Xavier College. During this time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller was being telecasted. Farah, though she had not tried dancing before, got inspired and became her vocation. Basically, she just learned how to dance by herself and started her own dance group. She took over to choreographer Saroj Khan, when he walked out of the sports drama film, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar in 1992. After this, she started to choreographed dance routines for more than 100 songs in several Hindi films. Farah has worked in international projects like the 2007 romantic musical comedy film, Marigold: An Adventure in India, the 2001 film Monsoon Wedding and the 2005 Chinese film, Perhaps Love. Her choreography in Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair and Bombay Dreams gained her nominations at the Tony Awards as Best Choreographer in 2004. She already won five times at the Filmfare Awards for the same category. In year 2012, Farah has choreographed the songs Radha and Ishq Wala Love for the film Student of the Year and Jumping Jhapak in 2013. 

Farah is a good friend of Shah Rukh Khan, whom she met during the set of the 1994 Bollywood film Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa and since then, they started to work together in several projects. Farah, soon became a director as well and her first film Main Hoon Na stars Shah Rukh Khan, produced under the banner of Red Chillies Entertainment. She was the first female director to be nominated at the Filmfare for Best Director. Her second film, Om Shanti Om also stars Shah Rukh Khan and the debutant actress, Deepika Padukone. This film became a top grosser of all time after it was released. In 2010, her third directorial venture Tees Maar Khan stars Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. She made her acting debut inn year 2012 after doing the lead role in Bela Bhansali Sehgal’s Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi. 

She also trained the famous Columbian pop star Shakira for her song Hips Don’t Lie, Bollywood version, for MTV Music Video Awards in 2006 and Kylie Minogue in Chiggy Wiggy for Anthony D’Souza’s Blue in 2009. In the same year, she hosted the celebrity chat show entitled Tere Mere Beach Mein, which was aired on Star Plus. She also judged reality television shows like the first and second seasons of Indian Idol, Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star, Dance India Dance Li’l Masters and Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega. In 2011, Farah, along with Hrithik Roshan and Vaibhavi Merchant judged the dance reality series Just Dance on Star Plus. She also hosted the special series of the reality show Bigg Boss Halla Bol in 2013. 

In honor of Farah’s triplets, she and her husband started the Three’s Company, a production house in India.

Isha Malviya was born on November 2, 2003, in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh. Her father's name is Ashish Malviya. Her father is a clerk by occupation in the state education department. Her mother is a housewife. From childhood, Isha Malviya was interested in dancing and acting, and that's why she participated in the dance reality show Boogie Woogie. She ranked among the top 3 positions there. When Isha was thirteen years old, she started modeling, crowned with The Miss Teen Icon India 2018, Shaan in Madhya Pradesh. She was also a second runner-up in Miss LNCT Open Competition. 2021 came to be a remarkable year for her when she got an offer to debut in the television industry. She gladly accepted it. She became a part of the TV show "Udaariyaan," produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey. Her character was Jasmine Kaur Sandhu. Isha also won many other awards, including Miss Madhya Pradesh (2017), Etc. Isha is very active on social media platforms as well. She is a social media influencer and she always posts about her dance videos and modeling pictures. She is pretty engaged with her fans there.

Aishwarya Sharma is an actress who works predominantly in the television industry. She currently plays the role of an elder sister to a character in the soap opera titled Meri Durga which is a production of the PaperBack films. Aishwarya is a native the state of Madhya Pradesh. From her childhood, she wanted to grow up and become an actor. She followed the conventional path of academics and chose the routine journey towards becoming an engineer. Her parents were always aware of her interest and inclination towards the field of acting so given the first opportunity, Aishwarya switched fields and convinced her parents successfully to let her get into the field of her dreams.

Here is a girl who met with a major accident while she was travelling near Trichy in Tamil Nadu, lost one of her legs but never gave that as an excuse to stop her dancing rather attached a prosthetic Jaipur leg and came back with a josh and acted as dancer in a film called Mayuri. Isn’t that a wonderful story which boosts one’s confidence level. That’s Sudha Chandran, a sysnonym for WILL POWER.

Mannara Chopra is a Bollywood actress born in Bokaro, Jharkhand on 29 March 1991. Mannara's mother is a jewellery designer and her father is a lawyer. Her Bollywood career started with Anubhav’s Sinha’s erotic thriller 'Zid'. Actress Priyanka Chopra, Meera Chopra and Parineeti Chopra are her cousins. She grew up in Delhi and was educated at Delhi's prestigious "Summer Fields School".

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Munawar Faruqui is an Indian comedian, rapper, and writer known for his satirical comedy. He was born on 28 January 1992 in Junagadh, Gujarat. He launched a YouTube channel. When he was 16, his mom died, and so he and his dad moved to Mumbai to make a fresh start. He was compelled to work for his family at the age of 17. His dad was sick. Munawar worked as a graphic designer in his early twenties. When OTT platforms were introduced in India, he became aware of comedy and began working as a comedian.

Vijay Vikram Singh is a well-known Indian dubbing artist and voice over artist. Vijay Vikram is the famous voice behind the television reality shows Bigg Boss. His voice is the most anticipated voice on the show. He was born on the 24th of September in the year 1975. Vikram has worked with the show Bigg Boss for more than twelve seasons and years. His voice as the "Bigg Boss" is much loved by the audience and has often created the curiosity amongst the audience regarding the face behind the famous "Bigg Boss" voice.

Atul Kapoor is an actor who lends his voice to various platforms such as in dubbing English movies, radio, TV shows, advertisements, etc. He was born on 28 December 1996 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is famous for the part of the character Bigg Boss on the show of the same name. He started his journey in the year 2002, with various roles.

Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first movie, itself. This film won the National Award for the Best Entertainment Film. It has also bagged eight Awards from Filmfare including the Best Director and Screen Play. Kabhie Kushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, My Name Is Khan, Student Of The year and Gippi are the films directed by Karan Johar. He has produced many hit films including Kal Ho Na Ho, Wake Up Sid and I Hate Love Stories. Karan Johar has also acted in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, apart from his assistant direction. He has also performed as a costume designed for the popular celebrities like Sharukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan. Koffee With Karan was the popular show hosted by Karan Johar, which made him popular among the TV audience. This program got aired for four seasons till 2014. He was also a part of the show Jalak Dikhhla Jaa, judging the participants along with Madhuri Dixit.

Arshad Warsi is most popular for his role as Circuit in the super hit Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Born in to a Muslim family; he attended a boarding school and at the age of 14, this led to many struggles in his early life. 

He began working as a salesman at the age of 17 but had shown interest in dancing. His interest changed in to a profession as he joined the Akbar Sami’s Dance group, which started his choreography and dancing career. 

Arshad’s film career began in 1996 when he was offered a role by Amitabh Bachchan’s production house film Tere Mera Sapne.  He was then provided with numerous roles but none of them were too successful. He became a prominent actor after starring opposite Sanjay Dutt in Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards. Warsi poured his heart out in the role and it paid off as it lead to the many film offers for him. He was signed in supporting roles for Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya and of course the sequel to Munna Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. 

Along with his successful career, Warsi became a family man when he married Maria Goretti in 1999. The two have two children, a son and a daughter.

July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of cinema Sunil Dutt and Nargis gave birth to the ‘Munna Bhai’ of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt in Bombay. Almost all are aware that Sanjay Dutt’s life is like a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life. But this man has never lost hope and is still struggling to get into a normal life as he is behind the bars since 2013 because of the TADA case. He went to Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. In his teenage years, due to peer pressure, he started taking drugs. For almost nine years he took heroin and cocaine as drug intakes and after a long period he realized that he should quit it all and wished to live a normal life.

Vicky Jain by profession is a Businessman and Bengali actor. His actual name is Vikas Jain. He was born on 1st August 1986. His place of birth is Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Raipur is his hometown as well. He is a Graduate in Economics. He studied at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra and did his MBA at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai, Maharashtra. His father is Vinod Kumar Jain, his mother is Ranjana Jain, his sister is Varsha Jain and his brother is Vishal Jain. He got married to actress Ankita Lokhande on 14 December 2021. His hobbies include reading, traveling and swimming. 

Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a producer. He was born as Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on December 27, 1965 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Salman is referred to as one of the most successful actors in Bollywood. His father is Salim Khan who is also an actor and a screenwriter while his mother is Sushila Charak (Salma Khan). He graduated from St. Stanislaus High School in Mumbai. Prior to this, he went to Scindia School, Gwalior together with his brother, Arbaaz Khan. He also studied at Elphinstone College.

Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, India. Bachchan's father was a prestigious Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh socialite. Being his parents’ first born, he has a junior male sibling resembling to his name Ajitabh. Bachchan went to Sherwood College before enlisting in Delhi University to complete his B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree. He became a cargo dealer in Calcutta after completing his graduation. Amitabh Bachchan married to Jaya Bhaduri and has one son named Abhishek and one daughter named Shweta. Bachchan's father passed on in 2003 and his mother in 2007.

In 1969, Bachchan made his film debut in Saat Hindustani a film administered by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas which won him the National Film Award for Best Newcomer. By the early 1970s, Bachchan had collected fame in crowds as the "Angry Young Man" in an arrangement of successful Hindi gimmick movies. His featuring part in Zanjeer was especially instrumental in propelling him to fame as an action-movie film legend. Amitabh didn’t stopped gaining fame and popularity and soon he delivered another successful movie Anand in 1971. Anand was followed by movies like Reshma Aur Shera and Parwana in the same year.

Being family friend with Rajiv Gandhi, he got an opportunity to choose to run for seat in the Congress from the place where he grew up. He challenged Allahabad's seat of eighth Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, previous Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in history (68.2% of the vote). His political life, on the other hand, was fleeting in view of debates especially after Rajiv and he were embroiled in the now scandalous "Bofors" case alongside the U.K. based Hinduja Brothers.

In 1997, Bachchan endeavored to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. However, the film was a disappointment both fiscally and basically. His vocation was spared with a successful film “Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)”. In 2000, Bachchan facilitated the first season of “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)”. Likewise in that year Amitabh Bachchan showed up in Yash Chopra's film industry hit “Mohabbatein” directed by Aditya Chopra. Different hits emulated, with Bachchan showing up as a more established family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) and Baghban (2003). Bachchan is also well known for his profound, baritone voice. He has been a storyteller, a playback artist, and moderator for various projects.

Despite a couple of film industry disappointments in the 1990s and the 2000s ruined his career yet, Bachchan climbed his way back up to as a topnotch Bollywood actor, gaining Filmfare and International Film Awards for his work on movies like Baghban (2003), Khakee (2004) and Paa (2009). His hard work guaranteed his prosperity and now he is known as the "King of Bollywood".

Abhishek Kumar is an Indian actor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Titoo MBA (2014) and 5 Ghantey Mein 5 Crore (2012). Mostly known for his involvement in Bollywood movies, plays, and TV shows in Hindi, his time on the silver screen has been short-lived so far. In 2012, Abhishek made his first notable contribution in the film industry with Faisal Saif’s Psychological Thriller film Paanch Ghantey Mein Paanch Crore, also starring Meera, Kavita Radheshyam, and Shawar Ali alongside him. Two years later, he made a comeback with Rajan Batra’s film Titoo MBA, opposite to Pragya Jaiswal. Since then, we haven’t seen much of him in Bollywood.

Neil Bhatt was born on August 4, 1987. He is an Indian Television Actor and started his career by performing first time in Indian soap operas. He has acted as Abhinav Tarneja in the very famous in Zee TV's show “12/24 Karol Bagh” as well as Kesar in Star Plus's show “Gulaal”.

By profession, he has done graduation in Law from Jitendra Chauhan College of Law, Mumbai, India. Neil Bhatt learned acting and got a degree from Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Institute in Mumbai, India. He performed well and won the award from Indian show Boogie Woogie and Ka Boom.

He played the male in Jo Ishq Ki Marzi Wohi Rab Ki Marzi on Sahara One, which was later on renamed as Kismet Konnection and Arslaan on Sony TV. But the major breakthrough came to Neil Bhatt, when he became a household name as Abhinav Tarneja as a male protagonist in 12/24 Karol Bagh on Zee TV.  Neil was last seen in an episode on channel Life OK’s show Savdhaan India.

He also played a role as the gruesome Aditya in its second episodes of Channel V’s popular show Gumrah. Currently, Neil is playing the role of “Lakshman” in Zee TV’s Ramayan. He is currently playing the character of Cadet Zakir in the Star Plus popular show Diya Aur Baati Hum.