Nisha Rawal
Shefali Zariwala
Fazila Allana
Kamna Nirula Menezes
Shilpa Shetty
Supriya Pilgaonkar
Suhasi Goradia Dhami
Smita Bansal
Sargun Mehta
Mahhi Vij
Neelu Vaghela
Deepshikha Nagpal
Charlie Chauhan
Elena Boeva
Dimpy Ganguly
Drashti Dhami
Rahul Mahajan
Keshav Arora
Arvind Kumar
Jaisheel Dhami
Kunwar Amar
Ashim Sen
Hemant Ruprell
Sajid Khan
Terence Lewis
Parag Tyagi
Gautam Rode
Gurmeet Choudhary
Ankush Mohla
Karan Mehra
Jay Bhanushali
Karan Wahi
Kushal Tandon
Ravi Dubey
Sachin Pilgaonkar
1. Nisha Rawal
After gaining success as a model for various brands, including Coca-Cola and Sunsilk, Nisha Rawal succeeded as a TV actress. She got married to Karan Mehra in the year 2012.
Nisha Rawal is a Mumbaikar who got success as a model and actress on Indian television. Later on, she also tried her luck with little success in Bollywood. After gaining success as a model for Fem Bleech, Sunsilk, and Coca Cola, she got her first television serial in 2001 when she appeared in Aane Wala Pal that was aired on Doordarshan National. She became popular with her acting skills, and in 2004, she landed a meaty role for the serial Kesar that was aired on Star Plus. She continued working in this television serial till 2007. In 2008, she made her Bollywood debut in the movie Rafoo Chakkar and the same year, she appeared in the film Hastey Ha...
2. Shefali Zariwala
3. Fazila Allana
Business is that occupation that is occupied by male dominance. In such circumstances, Fazila Allana emerged as one of the most successful Indian businesswomen. Fazila was born in 1970, in South Mumbai. She went to Queen Mary School and did her primary education. Later, she graduated from Sydenham College in 1991. Fazila spent some time in Finland but finally decided to come back to her birthland, Mumbai.
Initially, Fazila worked with UTV and understood the dynamics of business. Then Fazila finally made her mind to open her start-up. In 2003, she commenced her own company named Sol Production Pvt. Ltd. It was not just the company that opened, what else opened with the company were the doors of the most popular shows in the history of India like Koffee With Karan, Nach Baliye, Rakhi ka Swayamwar, Kya mast Life Hai, and Mai Ka La...
4. Kamna Nirula Menezes
Kamna Nirula Menezes is probably one of the most underrated TV producers of all time. She has been involved with the production business for almost 20 years as a professional. Her list of productions ranges from Koffee With Karan to Nach Baliye. Her simplicity and dynamic personality have allowed her to grow in the world of production. She is one of the most successful producers of TV serials, with her partner being Fazila Allana.
Both of them started their venture, SOL PRODUCTIONS PVT. LTD., in 2003 and later on became a part of the larger European production giant, Zodiac International. Sol Production has produced over a hundred shows in more than 40 genres. Paramount clients include Netflix, HistoryTV18, Discovery Channel, ALT Balaji Kamna Menezes has also led several shows to variou...
5. Shilpa Shetty
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.
Her television career started off with her p...
6. Supriya Pilgaonkar
Supriya Pilgaonkar is best known as Supriya in the industry. Every household which watches serials would recognize her immediately. She is a popular face in the television industry lately. But her career started as film heroine. She was selected as heroine of her first movie by her husband in the year 1984. She was born in 1967 on 17th August in Mumbai. This Marathi actress got married when she was only 18. She married Sachin Pilgaonkar, they have a daughter named Shriya Pilgaonkar. She rose to fame by acting in the Tu Tu Main Main serial, in which she played the role of Daughter-in-law, this comic serial depicting the relationship between mother in law and daughter in law became an instant hit.
The movies she acted along with her husband Sachin also did well in Box office. This duo even won the first season ...
7. Suhasi Goradia Dhami
Suhasi Goradia Dhami is a model turned film and television actress who played the main lead role as Gita in the Telugu film, Vaade Kavali in 2009. Suhasi was born on April 28, 1988 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Gujarati theater artist, Lata Goradia. Suhasi used to come to her mom’s stage shows when she was a child. She is the wife of IT Engineer, Jaysheel Dhami, the brother of popular Indian actress, Drashti Dhami. Jaysheel has been her boyfriend since her college days and they got married in the year 2007. She is also a trained Bharata natyam dancer and joined the fifth season of Nach Baliye on STAR Plus together with her husband.
The couple won the third runner-up place in the year 2013. She initiated her career as a model for various brands like Slice, Yamaha, Ford TVC, Tata Magic and mor...
8. Smita Bansal
Smita Bansal is the famous face of Indian Television. She has worked both on small screen and big screen. She was born on 21st Feb, 1977 in Jaipur. She got her education from India International School, Jaipur. She is married to Ankush Mohla (director) on 8th Dec, 2000. She is living a happy life with her two daughters and with a lovely husband.
She came to Mumbai in 1997 and started her career as a model. She has worked in many serials and films. Talking about her role in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, she has played the role of Nivedita Kamal Agarwal. This show was aired on Star Plus. It grabbed the attention of domesticated women and it was the 2nd highest viewed show on Indian Television. It won several Indian Telly awards in different categories.
She got famous with the name Sumitra in Balika Vadhu (20...
9. Sargun Mehta
Sargun Mehta is an Indian model, comedian, actress and dancer. Her most famous roles include her role as Phulwa in Zee Tv’s self titled series and as a daughter of a middle class family in 12/24 Karol Bagh. Apart from that she has anchored many reality tv shows, dance shows and award ceremonies.
Sargun Mehta was born on 6th of September, 1988 in Punjab. She was a member of the theater club in Delhi University from where she completed her graduation. She made her television debut as Neetu in 12/24 Karol Bagh, and won the New Talent Award for Best New Actor in Supporting Role for the same. Later she was cast in Apno Ke Liye Geeta Ka Dharmayudh, episodes in Crime Patrol and Teri Meri Love Stories and reality shows like Nach Baliye, Comedy Circus and Boogie Woogie Kids Championship. It was the...
10. Mahhi Vij
Mahhi Vij is basically an Indian model who turned out to be an actress in India. She got her remarkable fame from the serial –‘Lagi Tuzse Lagan’ where she appeared as Nakusha . She was born on April 1st, 1982 and is presently continuing her work as an Indian actress in TV serials. She stays in Mumbai, but is a Hardcore Punjabi. She won one of the dance series Nach Baliye 5 along with her spouse-Jay Bhanusali against 10 other couples; it was basically a reality show. This show marked her as a great dancer and she succeeded in gaining applauds from judges every single time she performed. She has appeared in lots of Indian TV serials and also won Star Parivar Award for’ favorite pratiyogi’.
She has been working from 2005 where she first appeared in a song ‘Tu tu hai wahi&rsq...
11. Neelu Vaghela
Neelu Vaghela is a very famous Rajasthani actress and has acted in more than 50 Rajasthani movies most of which have proved to be a success. Her better known Rajasthani movies are Supattar Bindani, Bai chali Sasaria and Veer Tejaji amongst others.
She was born in Rajasthan on April 15, 1970 and is 44 years in age. She is very active in Rajasthani movies. She started acting in Hindi TV serials as Bhabo in the popular drama in 2011 'Diya Aur Bati Ham'. The serial is still being telecast on Star Plus channel. It is produced by Shashi Mittal and Sumeet Mittal for Shashi Sumeet Productions and directed by Sumeet Mittal and Rohit Goyal. In this serial she appeared as Santosh Arun Rathi alias Bhabo the mother of male lead, Suraj (played by Anas Rashid) and the wife of Arun (played by Ashok Lokhande). In ...
12. Deepshikha Nagpal
Deepshika Nagpal was born on 2 September 1977 in Punjab, and currently resides in Mumbai. She comes from a family of artists, namely, her mother was also an actress and had a political career as well, and her father was a writer. Her uncle was a cinematographer and he helped her build her successful career in acting. Deepshika started her professional acting career in 1995 and for almost 20 years she has been actively performing in Punjab series and films. Some of the most popular television series she performs in are A.D.A. in 2005, Baa Bahoo Aur Baby, C.I.D. in 2006, and at the present she acts in Madhubala Ek Ishq Ek Junoon. Deepshika performed in more than 20 movies, some of them are: Betaaj Badshah, Koyla, Kahani Kismat Ki, Dillagi, Pyaar Mein Twist , Red ...
13. Charlie Chauhan
14. Elena Boeva
Elena Boeva is a 29-year old gorgeous Bulgarian model and actress. She was born on May 24, 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is currently based in New York, USA and went to India to joined the fifth season of the popular dance reality show, Nach Baliye 5. She danced opposite Kushal Tandon, a popular Indian model turned actor and an ex-housemate of Bigg Boss. But the two were eliminated on February 3, 2013. Elena met Kushal while she was studying in New York Film Academy in U.S. Kushal happens to be her classmate which later turned to a special friendship and ended with a long distance relationship. Elena usually come to India to visit Kushal and vice versa, however, it has been reported that their three-year relationship was already ended and the reason why they did not even made it to the wild card entry of Nach Baliye is because they al...
15. Dimpy Ganguly
16. Drashti Dhami
Drashti Dhami is a Bollywood model and television actress who acts in many television serials. She was born on January 10, 1985, and brought up in an orthodox Gujarati household in Bombay. She is widely known for her energy on the screen and the liveliness she brings to the shows she plays. She finished her studies at Mary Immaculate Girl’s High School in Mumbai and went on to complete an Arts Degree Major in Sociology at Mithibai College.
Aside from being an actress, Drashti is also a renowned and talented model and dancer. She appeared in several advertisements before making her debut on television. She has acted in commercials for famous brands like Lion Honey, Chevrolet Spark, VIP Bags, Reliance, etc. She is often called to appear and dance in ...
17. Rahul Mahajan
Rahul Mahajan is an entertainer. He was also a former pilot. He was born on 25th July, 1975. Rahul is the elder son of Pramod Mahajan, former union cabinet minister. His mother's name is Rekha Mahajan. Poonam Mahajan, Rahul's sister is a Member of Parliament. He divorced Shweta Singh. Then, he tied knot with Dimpy Mahajan. Their marriage took place at the end of 'Rahul Ka Swayamwar', a reality show of 2009. During May 2014, Dimpy and Rahul have applied for divorce.
Rahul Mahajan has appeared in Colors TV's 'Big Boss (Season - 2), which was also a reality show. He was also seen in 'bhund'. In the year 2010, he was seen in 'Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega' of NDTV Imagine. Then, he was the part of 'Comedy Circus' that was telecasted in Sony TV. In the year 2013, he w...
18. Keshav Arora
Keshav Arora is a model and actor in Indian Cinema. His movie career has been small yet. He is a well known figure in modeling and Indian Television Industry. He was married to actor and director Deepshikha Nagpal but unfortunately the marriage could not sustain for a long term.Keshav Arora has acted in a movie Yeh Dooriyan, which was a directorial debut for Deepshikha Nagpal as well. This couple has hit it off very quickly. Deepshikha was already divorced and has two children with her first husband. Kaishav still agreed to marry her, saying age too is no bar. Later Keshav Arora took part in Nach Baliye 5 along with Deepshikha as it is a couples' dancing reality show. The couple had done really well, and first time ever the world had come to know that Deepshikha and Keshav Arora are wed-locked. However, according t...
19. Arvind Kumar
Arvind Kumar is an Indian actor, dancer, writer and producer. He was born on 15th April 1970 in Rajasthan, India. He was sent to Gurukul in Bhagalpur for his education. Currently he is living in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He was married to Neelu Vaghela who is now acting as a Bhabho in Star Plus serial “Diya Aur Baati Hum”, which has excellent TRP ratings. They are having two children, one boy Kaizer and one girl Vanshika. Arvind is having his own production house “Aruneel Films” which produces Rajasthani movies.
Arvind was recently seen in a dance show of Star Plus “Nach Baliye 5” with his wife Neelu. Nach Baliye is a dance reality show, where celebrity couples use to participate and compete with each other and eventually wins the competition. Arvind Kumar has shown his dancing skill along with Neelu in this show. Arvind ...
20. Jaisheel Dhami
Jaysheel “Jay” Dhami is part of a conservative family from Gujarat in Mumbai, and the brother of famous television actress of Madhubala fame, Dhrashti Dhami. Also, Jay is married to television actress Suhasi Goradia who is famous for playing Abha in the serial Yahaan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli (Zee TV). Jay was friends with Suhasi from a young age as she was a good friend of Dhrashti’s. They got married on 28th December 2007 and have been together since college 13 years back.
Jay’s mother is a housewife and an excellent cook of Gujarati delectables while he himself is an IT engineer. He played a very brief one minute role in the series Sapnon Se Bhare Naina on Star Plus and was also in a 2 episode story in crime drama ‘C.I.D.’ along with Kunal Bakshi and Tanvi Thakkar. However, Jay...
21. Kunwar Amar
Kunwar Amarjeet Singh…the name sounds like a bit old-fashioned & traditional, but unlike the name this guy’s personality is quite stylish. He is the heartthrob of thousands of girls of this country. He has the looks to die for, cuteness of a little boy & dancing skills that will leave you shell shocked.
He is a contemporary dancer & Indian TV actor. He basically belongs to Indore, Madhya Pradesh & started his career as a dance teacher at a school in Indore. His dancing style includes freestyle and hip-hop. As an enthusiast dancer, he auditioned for dance realty show Dance India Dance. He rocked the dance floor with his dance & ended up as a finalist in that dance show. He and his co-dancer Shakti Mohan were named as best couple in the ...
22. Ashim Sen
Ashim Sen had started off his career in the television industry as a researcher. His first show was ‘Horn Please Ok’ which gave him enough exposure to knowledge of multi-camera basics. The show was aired five days a week on satellite channel Home TV. The show was a learning pad for him and he worked for Home TV for one year and nine months. Later, he was associated with Sony Entertainment Television network where he joined primarily as a promo producer and later elevated to the position of Head of On-Air Promotions & Events.
In this position, he served the channel where he got involved in making program promos and thereby owning the satellite rights for broadcast of some exclusive events that was broadcast on Sony Entertainment channel. Under his guidance, the channel could revive its hope by ex...
23. Hemant Ruprell
Hemant Ruprell is an Indian producer, who has made several Indian films and shows. Ruprell has been doing this job for 15 years and has gained a lot of experience in this field. He has also worked as a project head with ZEE TV. He has been the producer of Dance Plus TV show, which is a dance reality show. In 2017 he created the show Dil Hai Hindustani. In 2018 he made Home Sweet Home. In 2019 he made a TV show Tara from Satara for SET India. He is the founder of Frames Production.
...24. Sajid Khan
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.
Sajid Khan’s sister is Farah Khan, who made her break as the director with Shahrukh Khan film’ Om Shanti Om’, and also a renowned choreographer in Bollywood. Sajid became popular as a judge for Nach Baliye Season 5 and Nach Baliye Season 6 in Indian television. The actor made a cameo appearance in films like, 'Main Hoon' and Happy New Year. Sajid Khan's mother Menaka is the sister of Honey Irani and Daisy Irani, former child stars. Her father is Kamran Khan.
<...25. Terence Lewis
A dancer extraordinaire, a respected choreographer, God of Contemporary dance, these are some of the names given to Terence Lewis. Terence was born into the family of Xavier and Teresa Lewis and was the youngest of their eight children. He was brought up as a Catholic and did his schooling from St. Theresa High School before joining the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and The Martha Graham Centre for Contemporary Dance in New York where he was trained extensively in Jazz, Ballet and contemporary dancing. It goes without saying that he turned out to be an extraordinary dancer and soon started his career as a choreographer.
Terence has been a part of many Bollywood movies and apart from that he has also staged various musicals, advertisements, stage shows and of course music videos. He is one of the most sou...
26. Parag Tyagi
27. Gautam Rode
Gautam Rode is an Indian actor who predominantly acts in television serials and Bollywood movies. Gautam is basically from Delhi and was born on 14th August 1977. Gautam did his schooling at Army Public School, Delhi and completed his graduation from Bhagat Singh College majoring in Commerce. Initially, Gautam didn’t have plans for making an entry into acting or films, and he took care of his father’s business and stock brokering in the share market. Despite his father’s advice to continue the same business, fate had other ideas and hence now he is an actor and a model.
His debut film in the Bollywood was ‘Annarth’ where he starred opposite Preeti Jhangiani. Before long he was acting in quite a few ads and albums. Abhijeet B...
28. Gurmeet Choudhary
Gurmeet Choudhary shot to stardom with his role of ‘Ram’ in the television serial ‘Ramayana’ in 2008 with Debina Bonnerjee playing the character of ‘Sita’, whom he married in 2011.
Early Life: This dashing Punjabi actor was born in Chandigarh on 22nd February 1984. He was brought up in Jabalpur and also completed his education there. His father, Sita Ram Choudhary, was a Subedar Major in the Indian Army. Gurmeet was a struggling model for five years before landing his feet in the entertainment industry. His made his television debut in as a lead villain in Tamil serial ‘Mayavii’, which was the first 3D TV series on Indian Television. One day he went to Sagar Arts for giving an a...
29. Ankush Mohla
30. Karan Mehra
Karan Mehra is a model, Hindi TV actor, and a fashion designer. He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, and brought up in Delhi. He is from a non-filmy background. His father is Ajay Mehra, who works in the construction business,while his mother is a homemaker.
He did his designing course from NIFT, Delhi. He worked as a fashion designer in Noida for 4 years. His hobbies are watching movies and sketching. He joined the Kishore Namit Kapoor Institute to learn acting skills. After that, he went to Mumbai and joined as an assistant director for Rajkumar Hirani and Ram Gopal Varma. He has worked in 4 movies.
He acted in movies like ‘Saajan’, and ‘Love Story 2050’. After that, he started working in ...
31. Jay Bhanushali
Jay Bhanushali is a Hindi television actor, anchor, model and dancer, who is famous for his portrayal as Neev in Kayamath, which aired on Star Plus.
He was born on 25th December 1984 and studied at BPM School in Mumbai. He took up modeling on the advice of his sister, Hetal, and has appeared in advertisements such as Lays, Rediffmail.com, Pepsi, and Motorola.
He made his television debut as Varun Bhaskar in Disney TV’s musical comedy, Dhoom Machaao Dhoom. He then shot to fame as Neev Shergill on Kayamath, appeared as Yuvraaj in Star Plus’s Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil, and Yash Malhotra in Star One’s Geet – Hui Sabse Parayi, and also played the male lead role as Anuj Shrivastav in Kairi – Rishta Khatta Meetha, a soap opera aired on Colors TV.
He has h...
32. Karan Wahi
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.
He came to Mumbai wanting to become a cricketer, but he had to quit due to an injury, so he ended up auditioning for actor roles, and has come a long way to become a popular figure among youngsters through the small screen. His first TV serial was the Star One show, ‘Re...
33. Kushal Tandon
Kushal Tandon is a famous Indian model and Hindi serial actor. He was born on March 28th, 1985 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. His Birth Sign was Aries. His mother’s name is Sandhya Tandon. His father Billu Tandon, owns a transport and oil business and got selected as president of the Transport union in UP. His grandfather was a Member of Parliament. In their family he has two older sisters Tina Bhushan and Bhavana Tandon Kapoor. Kushal did his schooling from Scindia Boarding School and then joined Hans Raj College in Delhi.
He started modelling at an early age in 2003. In his carrier, Kushal was the first runner-up of Grasim Mr. India contest held in January 2005. After that, he had worked with different companies like Provogue, Spykar and Gioda...
34. Ravi Dubey
Ravi Dubey is an Indian Television and film actor who is best known for his heart-warming appearances in daily television soaps and Television commercials. He has been working in the Hindi television industry from the last seven years. He always dreamt of making a career in the entertainment industry due to his natural bent towards the arts, acting & music.
He is not only as an actor but also as an anchor, Model & Comedian. He was seen in several noted projects. He was quite strongly noticed in his appearance in the serial ‘Saas Bina Sasural’, where he played the lead character ‘Tej’. He was also seen in the television series called ‘Yeh Hai Aashiqui’, which is a dramatization of a few love stories.
35. Sachin Pilgaonkar