Hindi Tv Show Foodistan - Cast & Crew

Poppy Agha, or Amina Agha, is a celebrity chef, entrepreneur, and food connoisseur in the Bollywood film industry.  She is widely known for participating in a food show, A Taste of Fusion, which aired on DawnNews TV, and the Indian cooking reality show-Foodistan. She has been cooking for more than 17 years and specializes in Pakistani, French, Italian, Thai, and South Indian Cuisines. She hails from Karachi, Pakistan, and spent most of her life in London, United Kingdom. 

She got the name Poppy because when she was a kid, she pronounced the name of a Chinese restaurant as Poppy, and hence, all her family and friends started calling her by that name. Poppy Agha became interested in cooking after her grandmother’s chef, Zahoor, taught her how to c...

Madhumita Mohanta is an Indian culinary expert. Mohanta is the leader gourmet specialist at Great Eastern Hotel in Kolkata. She worked and lived abroad for ten years and has cooked for recognized characters from sportspersons like hustling vehicle driver Michael Schumacher to eminence. Mohanta is one of the top ladies' gourmet specialists in India today. She is the main female chief cook in a star inn in Kolkata.

In 2010, she was the top assistant chef at Claridges, Surajkund in Haryana. She loves Shiraz's biryani. She adores the vibe of New Market. She cherishes purchasing fish straight from the nearby market. Back in Calcutta, later over ten years, culinary expert Madhumita Mohanta is The Lalit Great Eastern's chief gourmet specialist, the leading woman leader cook in a star lodging in Calcutta.

Merrilees Claire Parker is a famous British chef and TV presenter. She was born on August 11, 1971 in Westminster, London. She is best known for showing TV shows that combine food and travel, as well as various more traditional cooking shows. Parker is also known for her menu for the Lansdowne Bar in Primrose Hill, London.

She started her TV career in 1996on Ready Steady Cook, a BBC cooking show, as a researcher. In 1997, she started hosting a TV show called "Barbecue Bible". Parker is known as a TV chef in the long-air BBC series "Anything You Can Do" co-hosted with Brian Turner in 1999. In 2001, she was a regular chef on the BBC daily program House Call. In 2005, she co-hosted the BBC show 'Full on Food' with Heston Blumenthal and Richard Corrigan. Parker also co-hosted 'Orgasm...

Ira Dubey is among the brightest, most talented young actresses in the country today. Born on August 1, 1984, Ira grew up in a family of actors and claims that theatre was imprinted in her personality. Her father, Ravi Dubey is the senior vice president and her mother, Lillete Dubey is an actress.

She has a sister named Neha, who is a former actress and is now a psychotherapist in Mumbai. Since her mom and aunts were completely immersed in theatre, she claims that theatre is a part of her. Ira did her schooling in The Cathedral & John Connon School in Bombay and then graduated from St. Xavier’s College.

She completed her higher studies at the Yale University in Filmmaking and creative field. Ira returned to India and struggl...

Sonya Rizvi, also known as Sonya Jehan, was born on 24th April 1980, in Karachi, Pakistan. Sonya was born to the Rizvi-Jehan family. Sonya is the granddaughter of Noor Jehan and Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. She got married to Vivek Narain, who is a banker. Vivek happens to be of Indian nationality. Sonya is a Pakistan-based actress who has worked in both Pakistan Film Industry and the Indian Film Industry. Sonya also owns a French Restaurant, named Café Flo, located in Karachi. Sonya was born and brought up in Lahore, Pakistan. Sonya’s mother, Florence Rizvi, was from France, and father, Akbar Hussain Rizvi, Pakistani. Her original name happens to be Sonya Rizvi, but she changed her surname to Jehan in fond memory of her grandmother, Noor Jehan, who was a singer. Sikander Rizvi is her brother, who is...

Flavors travel from the stomach to the heart. Amir Iqbal, also called World Curry Master, is a legendary chef and cook in Karachi, Pakistan. In an interview, Iqbal said that he is the only person from his family who has opted for cooking at a professional level. First, he gave exams for the Pakistani Army but failed to clear. In Air’s family, almost everyone was involved either in teaching or giving exams for Army. In 1999, Amir did a six months certificate course and passed the same with flying colors. Then he did further training of six months. Amir jobbed for numerous years, including in Abu Dhabi. After 2007, Iqbal started working in restaurants.

Later, at the end of 2010, Iqbal was allowed to do a live show, and due to his solemn efforts, the show became successful. Iqbal’s dedication towards his work was not h...

Noor Khan is an aspiring chef in the Bollywood film industry. He is widely known for participating in the 2012 cooking reality show-Foodistan, which had Vir Sanghvi, Sonya Jehan, and Merrilees Parker as judges.  The show featured sixteen professional chefs to host a healthy competition between two countries, India and Pakistan, which aired on NDTV Good Times Channel. Noor Khan hails from Karachi, Pakistan, and works as a chef in a restaurant there. He became popular overnight after participating in the Foodistan show, where he prepared various authentic Pakistani dishes like Burus Shapik, Alchin, and many more. For his cooking talent, Noor Khan won the ninth episode of the reality show.

Nimish Bhatia, popularly known as Chef Bhatia, is known for his expertise in food and beverages. Besides being a chef, he also works as a consultant providing valuable advice to businesses on menu development, recipe management, kitchen design, strategies for food, and beverage and operations development.

Bhatia was born on September 7. He attributes his success as a chef to his mother, who encouraged him to pursue his passion. He was a foodie since childhood itself. In his own words, he was so curious to taste different flavours that during a family trip to Kashmir, he was the only one to order all kinds of new dishes.

He studied at Maharaja Harisingh Agri Collegiate School. The eminent chef pursued a Bachelor’s in Hotel Management at Srinivas College of Hotel Management under the Mangalore University in 1990. Af...

Karan Suri, a former executive chef at Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, has cooked and eaten worldwide. Karan Suri was born in New Delhi, India. He started his journey after graduating with Science in Hotel Management at Indira Gandhi National Open University in 2004. His brilliant resume consisted of working for the Oberoi, Ritz-Carlton, and Raffles Hotel Groups in India, Singapore, and Dubai; executive sous chef at The Leela Places and Resorts.

Suri’s goal was to become an executive chef before he was thirty. At the age of twenty-nine, he achieved his goal by becoming the group executive chef based at Fairmont’s The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. Suri accepted the position of Executive Chef at the Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel (3111 Grant McConachie Way, Richmond), which made him move to Lower Mainland in 2014. The...

Rajeev Arora is a celebrity chef in the Bollywood film industry, widely known as one of the contestants in the cooking reality show-Foodistan, which aired on NDTV Good Times. He hails from Mumbai,  India, and spent most of his life in Surrey, Canada. He got a Diploma in Hotel Management from Pune Institute of Hotel Management in 1993 and studied hotel management in British Columbia, Canada. He also interned at JW Marriott Hotel, present in Hong Kong, where he became interested in cooking and shifted from hotel management to cooking.

Rajeev Arora started working as a Chef De Partie in some of Canada’s famous hotels like Pan Pacific Vancouver, and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. Later, he worked as a sous chef for some years before becoming the Regional Executive...

Sunil Chauhan is an Indian Television actor whose best works include 'Kashi - Ab Na Rahe Tera Kagaz Kora' and 'Akbar Birbal.' He is a person who believes in following his energy and checks out his heart to achieve his dreams. A wry person who means no fiendishness. He is a veritable capacity in the matter of thousands. Can take on testing employments, and pass on the proportional easily. He wishes to accomplish something continuously evident in life that will empower him to meet new people, go to new places, help him fulfill his inventive needs, and goad him to be better at it. Vitality and fun are always on an extent on the off chance that one is made arrangements to push toward getting to be showbiz sway in the showbiz. In like way, it is splendid not to get unreasonably worried in work as it will affect the presentat...

Girish Krishnan is a famous chef in various-star hotels and the Bollywood film industry. He is widely known as the executive chef of the popular five-star hotel-JW Marriott, Delhi Aerocity.  He was born and raised in a South Indian family and has been interested in food and cooking since childhood.  His experience of trying rotis instead of South Indian white rice inspired him to become a chef.  So, Girish Krishnan got his degree in Hotel Management from IHM Jaipur and started working in one of the famous hotels, Maurya Sheraton.  There, he opened Peshwari, which specialized in Indian food and became a hit among the customers.

Over the years, Girish Krishnan has worked in multiple hotels like Oberoi Hotels, ITC, JW Marriott, and many more. He has...

Manish Mehrotra (born 20 January 1974) is an Indian chef. He was born in Patna, Bihar. He studied at St.Xavier’s High School, Patna, and later did his high schooling from New Era Public School, New Delhi, and graduated from The Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai. He started his journey as the Kitchen Management Trainee for the Taj Group of Hotels, where he mastered the art of pan Asian cuisine. He soon joined Old World Hospitality's Oriental Octopus, where he traveled around Asia to train in Pan Asian Cuisine. 

Mehrotra has won numerous prestigious awards, which includes Foodistan, a television cooking game show by NDTV GoodTimes, Vir Sanghvi Award, best chef of 2010 and 2012, Chef of the year- Living foods Powerlist awards 2016, Chef of the year- Eazydiner Foodie Award 2017, Culinary Excellence- Hello Ha...

Vir Sanghvi is an Indian television journalist, Author, talk show host, food critic, columnist, and editor. He was born in Mumbai and brought up in Mumbai and London. Sanghvi went to Mayo College, Ajmer, and Mill Hill School, London, for his schooling. Later on, he went to Brasenose College Oxford to study politics, philosophy, and economics for his graduation. In 2021, he's a member of the Broadcast Content Complaint Council (BCCC), a body that governs content on entertainment TV channels. He is the Co-Founder and Lead Food Critic at EazyDiner. He has been a member of numerous government bodies, one of which is the National integration council.

Vir Sanghvi jots down a column, Rude Food, in the Hindustan Times Brunch magazine, for which the Indian Culinary Foundation gave him the “Best Food Critic” awa...

Aly Khan or Alyy Khan is a mixed British and Pakistani television and film actor. He was born on December 6, 1968 in Karachi to a Muslim household. When he was 6-years old, they moved to London that’s why he has a British Passport. When he was 9 years old, they moved to Mumbai, India where Aly studied and later on worked. He was married to Pakistani, Chandni Saigol and they have two kids. Chandni took up kickboxing and teaches kids at school. Then they came back to Pakistan again. He studied film and TV production in Pimlico Arts and Media College. He is now a resident of Pakistan and London.

Aly works in both Hollywood and Bollywood industries. Some of his renowned works are, the drama film, A Mighty Heart by Michael Winterbottom along with some American actors and actresses like Dan Futterman an...

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