Rapid Rashmi

Rapid Rashmi or Rashmi R Rao is a famous radio personality and an actor. She is well known for her work as a TV anchor and a radio jokey. She was born and raised up in Bangalore. She completed her studies from Bangalore, and for further studies in mass communication went to Pune. She used to take training for singing when she was a kid. She took the training for almost 18 years in various formats of singing. While Rapid Rashmi was a kid, she used to participate in singing competitions. She has given many stage performances including competitions, and local stage shows. She has done various singing assignments before joining Radio Company. She sang many devotional songs for an audio company. When she was in her college she sang a couple of cassettes and serials, including a special show for musical legend O P Nayyar.

She used to work as a consultant at the Standard Chartered Bank at the beginning. While she was working as a consultant there, she was also working as a host in some shows that were aired on Udaya TV and E TV. In 2006, she was offered a job as a Radio Jockey at Big FM at Bangalore, which she took without thinking twice. While working in Radio, she was offered to work in Television too. Her voice attracted many Kannada directors and audio companies too. Radio listeners also loved her voice, and her unique laugh made her more popular. She was offered to sing as a playback singer in a movie named ‘Nee Illadhe,’ directed by Shiva Ganapathy. The star cast of the movie included Raghu Mukherjee Raghu Mukherjee is an Indian model and film actor >> Read More... and Pooja Gandhi Pooja Gandhi is a famous actress in the Kannada fi >> Read More... . After that, she was offered a role of RJ in a movie ‘Payana.’

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Rashmi R. Rao is a multi-talented Indian radio jockey, television anchor, actor, singer and master of ceremonies, who is popularly known as Rapid Rashmi because of her proficiency at speaking merged with her quick wit that always arm her with something funny and intellectual to say at the spur of the moment.

She aspired to become a lawyer, majorly due to her terrific vocational skills but ended up beginning her career as a temporary compere on Udaya TV and E TV, simultaneously working as a marketing consultant at the Standard Chartered Bank.

She got her break in 2007 when Big FM hired her for its 92.7 channel as the host of the Rapid Adda (formerly known as Broadcast Bandi), an on-the-wheel, program aired from 2 to 5 p.m.

That covered daily events, hangout places, Bollywood gossip and youth interactions in Bangalore. Rashmi kept the listeners tuned in with her scintillating presentation of the content and amusing one-on-one conversations with the callers.

She soon gathered a huge fan following, which once went to the extent of a stockbroker stalking her all the way to her radio station and proposing her for marriage. The high ratings of her program led Big FM to shift it to an earlier time slot of 11 a.m. To 2 p.m. As ‘Retro Sawaari,’ thereby gathering a larger crowd of audience.

For her brilliant hosting, Rashmi was felicitated with the Media Award and the Aryabhatta Award for best radio jockey in 2016 while Retro Sawaari bagged the silver prize at the Indian Radio Forum for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017. She was also the first RJ in Bangalore to be selected as the mascot for the 2013 Pinkathon, India’s biggest women’s marathon aimed at spreading awareness about female health and hygiene.

Rashmi trained professionally for nearly two decades under the classical singer Parameshwar Hegde, honing her skills in Hindustani music. She made her debut as a playback singer in 2011 by featuring in Sujay Harthi’s ‘Hrudayadoorige Preethiya Dibbana’ song from the romantic action drama “Nee Illadhe,” directed by Shiva Ganapathy. She also lent her voice to the songs ‘Modala Male’ from “ Ugraa Prathapi Click to look into! >> Read More... ” (2015) and ‘Ringswamy’ from “ Deal Raja Click to look into! >> Read More... ” (2016). In 2019, she released her first music solo, a Kannada rap song titled ‘Independent – U,’ under the label of her production house, Rapid Rashmi Productions. She appeared on television as a contestant in E TV Kannada’s reality dance competition “Thaka Dhimi Tha Dancing Star” (2014) but was eliminated ephemerally.

She later participated in the sixth season of Colors Super’s reality series “Bigg Boss Kannada” (2013) along with seventeen other celebrity contestants. She had a long run in the 99-day show but was eventually evicted from the house on the 98th day, finishing fifth. She also featured in a minor role as an RJ in Kiran Govi’s rom-com “Payana” (2008).

She currently hosts the Rapid Rashmi Show, an online talk show where she interviews celebrities from diverse fields of profession. Rashmi’s fame despite being respected has had its perks as well. In April 2018, she lodged a complaint with the cyber-crime police and the state women commission after being harassed on social media platforms and receiving abusive messages from people,

The debasing began after she had interviewed the director duo, Anup and Nirup Bhandari The good looking actor Nirup Bhandari is the broth >> Read More... , along with actress, Avantika Shetty Avantika Shetty from Mumbai is an aspiring actress >> Read More... , regarding their movie “ Rajaratha Click to look into! >> Read More... ” (2018). She had asked the trio what they would call people who did not like their upcoming movie to which they replied, “Trash!” Soon afterward Rashmi became the new meme face on social media and was trolled incessantly for weeks.