Kim Jagtiani (born Komila Jagtiani; August 8, 1980) is a Canadian
television personality who has hosted multiple TV programmes for over 15 years, including regular appearances on ''
Daily Planet'' for a series entitled India Unleashed. She was also a
VJ (video jockey) for
Channel V India, hosting ''Cool Stop'', ''P.O.V.'' and ''Club V'', and is considered to be a household name in India.
Born in
Mumbai,
India, she and her family moved to
Oshawa
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Ontario in Canada, and she altered her name from Komila to Kim in order to better help her adjust to Canadian society. Jagtiani won ''Miss India Canada'' in 1999, and has modelled for beauty and lifestyle magazines, including the front covers of
Femina (magazine),
New Woman (magazine)
''New Woman'' is an Indian lifestyle magazine. It is published by Pioneer Book Company Private Limited. ''New Woman'' is based in Mumbai, India. Hema Malini is its editor.
History and profile
The first edition was published in December 1996.
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,
Seventeen
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and
Cosmopolitan
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While vacationing in India, television station Channel V contacted her, asking if she would like to audition to be a VJ. Though she declined, her aunt made her reconsider and she went to the audition. Believing her audition went poorly, she was surprised to be contacted yet again by Channel V, who offered her a full-time position. Leaving her studies at
University of Toronto, she moved to
Mumbai in 2000 to begin her new job. Through her 5 year career at Channel V she learned to speak
Hindi. During these years Jagtiani interviewed Bollywood Stars and international music celebrities including
Celine Dion,
Aaron Carter and
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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. In 2006, Jagtiani was chosen as the lead actor for Indian beauty brands Sunsilk Shamp
and Everyuth Facewa
advertising commercials.
Following this, she joined
STAR One in India to host the travel program Exotica.
In the well-known Indian magazine, Femina October 2007 issue, Jagtiani was named one of India’s 50 Most Beautiful Wom
The word most used to describe her was "soulful."
Jagtiani has also acted in several Indian plays and commercials and is trained in various forms of dance,
including tap, ballet,
jazz dance and
Latin dance.
She began training in
kathak in 2003,
and enjoys attending Kathak performances.
On 2 August 2007, Discovery Channel announced Jagtiani as the new co-host of ''Daily Planet'', a daily science television show on Discovery Canada, starting 4 September 2007.
She had co-hosted an India theme week for the programme in the spring of 2007.
She left ''Daily Planet'' in September 2008, and returned to India where she hosted travel documentaries and travel shows for
Discovery Channel India
Discovery Channel India is the Indian version of Discovery Channel operated by Warner Bros. Discovery for the Indian subcontinent. It is available in eight languages including Hindi, English, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi w ...
and
NDTV Good Times.
She was one of 50 semi-finalists for
The Best Job In The World,
a competition created by
Tourism Queensland to promote the
Great Barrier Reef as a tourism destination.
In 2011, Jagtiani performed a cameo in the Bollywood hit film
Desi Boyz, directed by
Rohit Dhawan, co-starring
Akshay Kumar and
John Abraham.
In 2015, Jagtiani returned to Canada to pursue her education at the
University of Toronto. She received her HBSc undergraduate degree in psychology and anthropology.
In 2021 at The
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of The
University of Toronto (OISE), Jagtiani co-authored a journal article with supervising professor, Dr. Charles Chen, and published "''Helping actors improve their well-being'
in The Australian Journal of Career Development (March 2021). In the same year, Jagtiani graduated OI
with an MEd in Global Mental Health & Counselling Psychology and returned once again to Delhi, India, where she currently works as a counselling psychologist at The Garg Psychiatry Clin
References
External links
A short article regarding Kim Jagtiani's assistance with India UnleashedThe Best Job In The Worldvideo by Jagtiani
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1980 births
Living people
People from Mumbai
People from Toronto
Canadian television hosts
Canadian women television hosts
Indian emigrants to Canada
Canadian people of Sindhi descent
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian expatriates in India
Canadian Hindus
Sindhi people
University of Toronto alumni