Hindi Tv Show Indian Pro Music League - Cast & Crew

Himani Kale is a well-known personality from the Indian television industry. She has been an anchor and presenter for 20 years. Himani pursued a Bachelor of Mass Media from the University of Mumbai and a Films and Television Production Degree from the Xaviers Institute of Mass Communications. She started as an Executive Producer in Programming at Zee TV in 2004. Later, Himani worked as an Associate Producer at The Contender Asia, a Production Assistant at The Moving Visuals Company, a Radio Jockey at Big FM Radio, a Radio Jockey and Program Manager at Masti FM Radio, a Television Host at Colors APAC, a Digital Marketer at Lets Think Aloud, and Co-Founder of Radio Chutney. Himani is running an entertainment portal in Singapore. She is the Distributor of Regional Films.

Purva Mantri is a famous singer and live performer in India. She was born on 7th August 1992. Her interest in singing came from her family, who trained her in Classical singing. Her singing career started when she voiced the opening songs of popular daily soaps like Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai and Balika Vadhu. Mantri was one of the competitors in Indian Idol (2006). In 2015, she was one of the finalists of Close-up Websinger. In the same year, IBM awarded her Singer of the Year Award.  

Akanksha Chaturvedi is a 23-year -old young entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Eduauraa. She did her graduation from University College London and Masters at Columbia University. Eduauraa is an Edtech venture that aspires to provide high-quality education at an affordable cost. She spent her college days researching on urban planning and business. This made her realize that provision of quality education can lead to the development of our country. The story of Eduauraa began when Akanksha came back to India after finishing her studies. The stay in India made her realize that India can be something more than a developing country; India has the power to do it.

Ananya Birla is an Indian singer, entrepreneur, songwriter, and mental health advocate, Born on July 17, 1994, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She is the oldest offspring of the 6th most extravagant Indian - Kumar Mangalam Birla (Chairman of Aditya Birla Group) and Neerja Birla and the 6th era scion of the Birla family. Ananya Birla built up an enthusiasm for music at an early age, figuring out how to play the santoor at eleven. She majored in economics and management at Oxford University for her four-year certification, yet dropped out without finishing her degree.

Rupali Jagga In Sanskrit “Rupali” means “beautiful” and her voice does justice to the meaning of her name. Rupali Jagga was born in Sarangpur, Uttar Pradesh on 15 July 1995. She is an Indian classical singer. Having spent her entire childhood in Sarangpur, she did her schooling from Asha Modern School. She graduated as Bachelor in Arts and took music as her specialization from MCM DAV College, Chandigarh.

'Payal Dev' is an Indian playback singer, who made her debut song entitled Ab Tojhe Jaane Na Dungi in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s epic historical romance film, Bajirao Mastani. Payal was born on February 26, 1989, and started training under her mother’s guidance, a classical singer. She had mastery on vocal exercises and graduated with a degree in Music.  

Waluscha De Sousa was born on 28 November 1979, in Goa. Waluscha has been contributing in the fashion world as a supermodel and also landed on the screens of Bollywood in 2016, making her debut with a very famous and well-renowned star, Shahrukh Khan, in the movie Fan, produced by Aditya Chopra (Yash Raj Films). Waluscha has been in the fashion industry since she was 16 years. She was introduced into the industry by Wendell Rodricks, a stylist who ranks among India’s Top 10 designers. Waluscha tied the knot in 2002 with Marc Robinson, an Indian actor, and model, in Goa. She met Marc for the first time in The Miss India beauty pageant, where he was one of the judges and the director of the pageant. They were blessed with three children, Chanel Robinson, Brooklyn Robinson and Sienna Robinson.

Shilpa Rao is perhaps the youngest Bollywood singer who made her debut with her song “Tose Naina’ from the movie ‘Anwar’ which was composed by music director Mithoon. This singer was a discovery of music composer Mithoon. She got the chance to sing her debut song when she was studying in college. It is said that her father groomed up this singer when she was young. She had her first training from her father S. Venkat Rao who was a music graduate. 
 

Nikita fell in love with Chennai. While pursuing dentistry, her friends advised her to look for opportunities and competitions in the music industry. She soon decided to join KM Music Conservatory (KMMC), to do a short course. KMMC is established by the Oscar winner A.R. Rahman in 2008. He is the head principal their while Fathima Rafiq is the Executive Director. She met Rahman when she was one of the choir members in an Indo-German exchange orchestra. A.R. Rahman was impressed by her and auditioned her for his upcoming project Qyuki in 2015 with Shekhar Kapur.

Neha Bhasin is a singer by profession and has many hit numbers to her credit. She was born to be a pop sensation. Neha started her hard work and dedication towards music and dance at a very young age. She joined Shiamak Davar’s dance group to unleash herself in dancing as well. Neha took her singing tuitions from Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

Genelia Dsouza is a popular Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu cinema industries. She has also worked for television industry as a host.

Genelia Dsouza is a Bollywood actress who started her career as a model. She worked with Amitabh Bachchan for the Parker Pen commercial for which she gained wide recognition. She started her acting career with the movie Tujhe Meri Kasam opposite Ritesh Deshmukh. This movie was released in 2003. In the same year, she also appeared in a lead role in a Tamil movie Boys. After that, she worked for various Telugu movies including the romantic movie Bommarillu in 2006 for which she received her first Filmfare award.

She returned to Bollywood with movie Masti which was released in 2004. In 2008, she again appeared in the Bollywood flick Mere Baap Pehle Aap. During the same year, she played the lead role in Telugu movie Ready which was a super hit. She also played the lead role of Aditi for the 2008 Bollywood movie ‘Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na’. Some of other successful movies of this beautiful star include Force; that was released in 2014, and Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya which was released in 2012.

Apart from doing commercials and Bollywood movies, Genelia Dsouza has also worked as a host and anchor for the reality television series Big Switch season 1 which was telecasted on UTV Bindaas.

Deshmukh Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

Shraddha Kapoor, born on March 3rd, 1989, is a young emerging actress of Hindi Film Industry. She is the daughter of veteran actor Shakti Kapoor and niece of famous actress Padmini Kolhapure. Shraddha started her acting career in the year 2010 with a film called Teen Patti which had Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley and R. Madhavan in it. Though the film did not do well at the box office, her performance got some attention. Her second film was Luv Ka the End (a teen comedy), opposite Taaha Shah, which failed to perform at the box office but Shraddha’s performance in the movie was very well appreciated by the film critics. Even after giving two consecutive flops, Shraddha went on to take a major risk and cancelled her three-film contract with Yash Raj Films, signing a Mohit Suri directorial flick Aashiqui 2 which was a sequel to a 1990 cult film Aashiqui.

     ‘Akriti Kakkar’ was born on August 7, 1986. She is a popular Indian singer who had sung many peppy numbers. The most prominent numbers are 'Saturday Saturday' song in the movie 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania' and 'Iski Uski', in the movie '2 States'. In Zee Bangla, she had been a judge for the show, 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: Li’l Champs'. She released her solo music album via Sony Music India in April 2010. As of now, she had sung 33 songs in Bollywood. 

Winner of Indian Idol season 10, Salman Ali is an Indian playback singer who began his career through the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs. Salman Ali was born on 14th January 1998 in a town called Punhana in Mewat, Haryana. He comes from a musical environment as his family earns their livelihood by performing music at weddings and other functions. Salman is the youngest of five siblings in his family. As Salman Ali happens to the fourth-generation music kid in his family, music was natural in his DNA. He followed his father and grandfather to work since he was seven. He did his schooling up to 9th standard from Palwal, but dropped out to concentrate fully on music. Salman Ali ventured into television with the popular reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs Season 5 of Zee TV.

Hemant Brijwasi, an Indian singer, was born on 5th June 1998 at Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Since he was born in a middle-class family, he and his father sang at religious events and paid their bills. His passion for singing developed at a very young age.

Ankush Bhardwaj is a singer, who became famous after he participated in singing reality show Indian Idol Season 10. He was born on 11th December 1992 in Kotgarh, Himachal Pradesh. Ankush started singing at the age of 10. He completed his schooling from Hainault Public School, Shimla. He graduated in commerce from R. G. G. D. College of Shimla in 2014. He completed M.B.A from Amity.

Suresh Raina is an Indian Cricketer, and he was born on November 27, 1986, in Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. His father Trilok Chand, is a retired military officer originally from Rainawari, in Jammu & Kashmir, and his mother is from Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh. He has three older brothers Dinesh Raina, Naresh Raina and Mukesh Raina and one elder sister Renu and his elder brother Dinesh is a school teacher.

Asees Kaur is an Indian Playback Singer. She works in the Hindi Film and Music Industry. Asees was born on the 26th of September in the year 1988. She was born in Panipat, Haryana.

Shantanu Mukherjee is a very popular singer and known by the name of Shaan. He was born on September 30, 1972. His grandfather Jahar Mukherjee was the lyricist, his father Manas Mukherjee was the late music director, and his sister Sagarika is a singer. Shaan lost his father at the age of 13 after that his mother became a singer and took the responsibility of the entire family.

Bhoomi Trivedi is a female playback singer in Gujarati and Hindi movies. She was a participant in a reality show, ‘Indian Idol 3’. Bhoomi hails from Gujarat. She gave audition for ‘Indian Idol 3’ but left the show in the middle on account of her illness. She was suffering from jaundice and had no other option but to quit the show. Next year, she again had auditioned for’ Indian Idol 4’ and this time also she could not take part in the full telecast as her aunt had passed away when she was in the show.  However, she attempted again to participate next year in the ‘Indian Idol 5’ and ended the competition as a runner-up. The fifth season was judged by Anu Malik, along with two new judges: Salim Merchant and Sunidhi Chauhan. The contestants at the grand finale were Sreeramchandra, Bhoomi, and Rakesh. In this show, she had sung ‘Wannabe’, a pop song by the Spice Girls.  Having made her voice popular in the reality show, she got a break to sing a solo song titled’ Bahne Dey’ in the film ‘Prem Mayee’ which released in 2012. In this film songs were not so special to be noted at all. However, she shot to fame and popularity with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's  film ‘’Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela’’, that released in 2013. In this film, she got a chance to render an item song on Priyanka Chopra and it reflected positively on her career. The choreography of the dance was unison of Gujarati folk and western music. The vocal of the song is given by Indian Idol fame Bhumika Trivedi, who had to strike a perfect chord with its fast paced beats and other musical arrangements. 

Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.

After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsav Maharajand and also Lata Mangeshkar. After that, he started to teach music for his expenses in Delhi. Because of some problems in the family, he left singing and completed his graduation from Delhi University. When he was staying in Delhi, he met Paresh Kamath and Naresh Kamath in a concert. They together, started his band named “Kailasa”. Thus, he started his journey in his music career. 

He has sung more than 5000 songs in 20 different languages of India. He got the opportunity to sing in the movie “Andaaz” (Rabbaa Ishq Na hove). After this, his song “Allah ke Bande” from movie “Waisa Bhi Hota Hai 2” became very popular, and made him a popular singer in Bollywood. The song "Teri Deewani" from the album of the same name by his band Kailasa and the song "Ya Rabba" from the movie Salaam-e-Ishq had record sales. His band albums are Kailasa(2006), Jhooma Re (2007), Chaandan Mein (2009), Rangeele (2012),Naina Chaar (2013) etc. 

He won Filmfare award as Best Male Playback singer for the film Fanna (2007) and also won the Filmfare award as Best Male Playback Singer-Telugu for the film Mirchi.

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.

Bobby Deol was a treat to watch when he walks to the tunes of the title song in the Hindi film “Soldier”. With his long hair, dimpled smile and a tousled look he was quite a heartthrob among the young girls. Born on January 27 1969 to a Punjabi family Bobby Deol is born to yesteryear superstar Dharmendra. His sibling is Bollywood actor Sunny Deol. Thriller films are Bobby Deol’s forte and he also played the negative character who is the prisoner of circumstances. His hit list includes Barsaat, Soldier, Gupt, Badal, Dostana, Humraaz, Badal, Bicchoo, Ajnabi etc. The film Gupt skyrocketed his career; his role in the film was very much appreciated. Soldier is also a successful film in his career. 

Originally known as Vijay Singh Deol, Bobby Deol was credited with the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his brilliant performance in “Barsaat” (1995). On his personal front Bobby Deol is happily married to Tanya Ahuja and has two sons. He is not only a good actor but also a good human being. The film “Apne” saw the three Deols (father and two sons) sharing screen space and the film was declared a hit. Yamla Pagla Deewana was another film which saw the Deols sharing screen space and it was successful at the box office. Bobby Deol has two Filmfare awards to his credit. 

Though he proved his mettle in thriller films Bobby was not so successful in the genre of romance. He might have become a prominent star through proper efforts, but unfortunately he didn’t become very successful even after facing few hits. All the same, his level-headedness can be proved when he said that he knows how to handle success and failure with equanimity. 

Nowadays, his father Dharmendra’s home productions are the only outlet to express Bobby’s acting skills. Thankfully Bobby didn’t rely only on films and now he owns a restaurant of his own in Mumbai.

Govinda is a popular Bollywood star who is known for his spontaneous dancing steps and comic timing.

Govinda is a popular actor of Indian cinema who has gained a lot of popularity because of his dancing abilities and comic roles. His debut film was Ilzaam in 1986 which was a commercial success. Since then, he has worked for more than 165 Hindi movies. Some of his successful comedy movies include Love 86, Hatya, Raja Babu, Aankhen, Coolie No. 1, Hero No. 1, Shola Aur Shabnam, Jodi No. 1, Saajan Chale Sasural, Dulheraja, and Hasina Maan Jayegi. Some of his recent successful movies include Life Partner, Partner, Raavan, and Bhagam Bhag. He also performed in villainous roles for the movies Shikari (2000) and Kill Dil (2014).

Govinda has gained name on television too. He first appeared on television in 1999 in a talk show titled Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai along with his co-actress Karishma Kapoor and wife. This talk show was aired on Zee TV and was hosted by Suresh Oberoi. Govinda himself hosted a game show which was titled Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke which was aired on Sony Entertainment Television (India) in 2001. The debut episode of this series broke many records of TRPs and even proved higher than the TRPs of the Amitabh Bachchan’s show Kaun Banega Crorepati.

In 2002, Govinda appeared on Shekhar Suman’s late-night talk show Movers & Shakers which was aired on SAB TV. In 2003, Govinda appeared for a television interview Rendezvous With Simi Garewal. This show was hosted by Simi Garewal and Govinda’s wife Sunita also took part in this show. In 2012, Govinda again made an appearance in Shekhar Suman’s late night show Movers & Shekars Masala Markey, which was aired on SAB TV. In 2013, he appeared on Kapil Sharma’s Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma which was aired on Colors TV. In 2014, he made a special appearance with Karishma Kapoor on the show Mad In India aired on Star Plus. Recently, in the year 2015, Govinda took part as one of the judges in the reality dance competition show Dance India Dance Super Mom Season 2.

Kirti Kumar Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

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.

Ankit Tiwari was born on March 6, 1986 in Kanpur, India. He is a drastically advancing music composer and a playback singer who had given back to back hit albums and songs. He got into the Bollywood Cinema world in the year 2010 until the present. His works are quite impressive and blissful listening to them. Initially, he entered into the film industry as a music director after which he also lingered into playback singing. In the year 2013, he got an award for the music director category. Also, his album contested for a couple of awards in the Filmfare Awards.

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.

Sajid Khan is a Bollywood director, producer and even actor. He was born on November 23, 1970. Before making debut as an actor and director, he was a popular TV host who claimed recognition in TV medium. Since the early days of television, he gained popularity as talk show hosts and was among the most popular personalities in the medium.

Rituraj Mohanty, whose native name is Ritu Ranjan Mohanty, is a Hindi singer and actor. He became widely known for his participation in the music reality show India's Raw Star, of which he was the first ever winner. Rituraj was born at Belapada, Nimapada, in the Puri district of Odisha. His parents are Sri Chakradhar Mohanty and Parvati Mohanty, and he was born as their eldest son. His father, Sri Chakradhar Mohanty is a professional musician and also a small-time singer. Sri Sumanta Mohanty, who was a reputed music director in Oriya classical music industry, is his cousin brother. Rituraj kept trying to get a break in the music industry and finally got it when he won the show India's Raw Star. He went on to sing the song Sahib in the Bollywood movie Bhoothnath Returns. Before he participated on the India's Raw Star, he had sung the song Aam Ke Aam Honge in the second season of the reality show Satyamev Jayate. Rituraj Mohanty became more of a popular icon after he began acting in serials and TV shows, which include Seeta Aur Geeta, Kittie Party, and Banegi Apni Baat. The number of fans that he earned while participating on India's Raw Star only seemed to increase once he took up an acting profession through TV shows.

Riteish Deshmukh is the son of a politician, late Vilasrao Deshmukh, who was chief minister of Maharashtra for some terms as a Congress, party member. Riteish was born in Mumbai on December 17, 1978, to Vaishali Deshmukh and Vilasrao Deshmukh.

Mika Singh is an actor, singer, stage presenter and composer. He was born on 10 June 1977 in Durgapur Bihar. He is the youngest child among six of Ajmer Singh Chandan and Balbir Kaur. Mika Singh real name is Amrik Singh. He is the real brother of all time famous punjabi singer Daler Mehandi. He is one of the most famous Punjabi singer. He sang several songs in Bollywood ‘Mauja Hi Mauja’, ‘Dhanno’, ‘Dhinka Chika’, ‘Gabru’ and ‘Mai tera agal bagal hu’.

Mika is also known for the songs Jaato Ka Chora and Rani Tu Mai Raja of the movie Son of Sardar. In 2014, he shares the stage with the rockstar Yo Yo Honey Singh for the song Mast Kalandar. The song is very much appreciated by the audience especially the young of India. Since 1998, Mika Singh was the part of more than 150 albums and movies either he was the composer, song writer or the singer. Some of his notable work was done in the albums ‘Sawan Mai Lag Gayi Aag’, ‘Ishq Brandy’, ‘Gabru’, ‘Something Something’, ‘Dunali’ and movies like ‘Son of Sardar’, ‘Housefull’, ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’, ‘Jab We Met’, ‘Singh is King’, ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbai’ and ‘FALTU’.

Mika also appeared in three films as an actor. In 2014, he plays the lead role in the movie ‘Balwinder Singh famous ho gaye’. He played the role of Balwinder Singh who is a small farmer in Punjab but due to his hard work and the help of his bestfriend Jagjeet Singh he gets fame in whole India. The role of Jagjeet Singh was played by the famous rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh.

Karan Wahi is an Indian presenter and an actor who predominantly stars in Hindi serials and movies. He was born on June 9, 1986, into a Punjabi Sikh family, in the city of Mohali. He is originally from the city of Delhi and finished his schooling from St. Mark’s School in Meera Bagh. He then attended the IILM Institute for Higher Education and Delhi University. Reportedly, his favorite actors are SRK and Amitabh Bachchan. He is a passionate drummer, and apart from acting, he also loves dancing and is a self-admitted video game freak.