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Shibani Dandekar Akhtar (born 27 August 1980) is an
Indian-born Australian singer, actress, host and model. She began her career working as a television host on American television. Following her return to India, she began hosting several shows and events on Hindi television, besides working as a model and singer. She was one of the co-hosts of the ''
2019 ICC Cricket World Cup
The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup was the 12th Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested by men's national teams and organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was hosted between 30 May ...
''. She was also a contestant on ''
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5 is the fifth season of the dance reality show, '' Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa''. It premiered on 16 June 2012 on Colors and concluded on 30 September 2012. The series was hosted by Manish Paul and Ragini Khanna.
Contestants Status ...
'' (2012) and ''
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 8'' (2017).
Early and personal life
Dandekar was born in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
as the eldest daughter into a
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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family. Her father Shashidhar Dandekar is a theatre actor in Australia and her mother Sulabha Dandekar works in Qantas Airways, Australia. She has two sisters,
Anusha Dandekar
Anusha Dandekar (born 9 January 1982) is an Indian-Australian MTV VJ, actress and singer, who is best known as a VJ and a host who has hosted several shows.
Early life
Dandekar was born in Sudan on 9 January 1982 into a Marathi family of S ...
, an actress-singer working in
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
, and Apeksha Dandekar. Dandekar along with her sisters formed a music band named D-Major. Dandekar grew up in Australia and Africa for the majority of her childhood.
Dandekar started dating Bollywood filmmaker and actor
Farhan Akhtar
Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, producer, and television host who works in Hindi films. Born in Mumbai to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he grew up under the influen ...
in 2018, just after his divorce from
Adhuna Bhabani in 2017. On 19 February 2022, they got married in a non-religious ceremony at Farhan's father's farmhouse in
Khandala
Khandala is a hill station in the Western Ghats in the state of Maharashtra, India, about from Lonavala, 12 kilometres from Khopoli and from Karjat.
Khandala is located at the top end of the Bhor Ghat, a major ''ghat'' (meaning valley in ...
.
Career
In 2001, she moved to New York City and began working in American television. She hosted three nationally syndicated television shows, ''Namaste America'', ''V Desi'' and the ''Asian Variety Show''. In this role, she introduced Bollywood's biggest stars to American audiences and also hosted ''An Evening With Shah Rukh Khan in Atlantic City''. She has been a contestant on ''
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
''Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa'' is an Indian Hindi-language reality television show and the Indian version of BBC's '' Strictly Come Dancing'' and '' Dancing with the Stars''. The show pairs celebrities with professional dancers. Each couple performs pr ...
'', the India-based ''
Dancing With the Stars
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'' on the
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network and hosted in India on Colors TV.
She returned to India and continued her work as a television host, while venturing into modelling as well.
Apart from music and modeling, Dandekar's love for anchoring shows saw her as host for major events such as the Maxim Hot 100, Nike, Rolls-Royce, Puma, Mercedes, Toyota, Horlicks, HSBC, Spice Mobile, JBL, MTV Coke Studio, Nivea and the Sony Launch of the tribute to Michael Jackson's "This is It". Dandekar has anchored popular shows including the lifestyle shows ''After Hours'' on
Zee Cafe
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Zee may also refer to:
People
*Zee (徐), a Wu Chinese surname, an equivalent of Xu
*Anthony Zee (b. 1945), Chinese-American physicist
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, ''Men 2.0'' on
AXN
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Funded th ...
,
ZoOm
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* Zoom (software), videoconferencing application
* Page zooming, the ability to magnify or shrink a portion of a page on a computer display
* Zooming user interface, a graphical interface allowing for image ...
's ''
Let's Design'', ''India's Sexiest Bachelor'' on
Big CBS Prime, as well as its extension ''India's Glam Diva'' on
Big CBS Love. Dandekar also anchored the Indian produced ''Grammy Nominees Special'' on
VH1 as a lead-up to the
53rd Grammy Awards
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers. Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights pri ...
. Since 2011, she has been co-hosting the show ''Extraa Innings – T20'' on
Sony Max Television during the
Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's T20 franchise cricket league of India. It is annually contested by ten teams based out of seven Indian cities and three Indian states. The leagu ...
matches; she won a nomination at the 11th
Indian Television Academy Awards
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Ceremonies
Categories Popular Awards
* ITA Aw ...
in the category Best Anchor Game/Quiz Show.
She is hosting the Mission cover shot for National Geography channel. She did a dance number ''Hi Poli Saajuk '' for 2014's Marathi movie ''
Timepass'', followed by ''36 Nakhrewali'' in ''
Sangharsh''. She played the role 'Zoya' in the movie ''
Roy
Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin.
In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...
'' which was released on 13 February 2015. In 2017, Shibani participated in
Khatron Ke Khiladi 8 and eliminated in the first week at 12th place. In 2019, she hosted the opening ceremony of
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup was the 12th Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested by men's national teams and organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was hosted between 30 Ma ...
along with
Andrew Flintoff
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff (born 6 December 1977) is an English television and radio presenter and former international cricketer. Flintoff played all forms of the game and was one of the sport's leading all-rounders, a fast bowler, middle-orde ...
and
Paddy McGuinness
Patrick Joseph McGuinness (born 14 August 1973) is an English actor, comedian and television presenter. He rose to fame with the help of Peter Kay, who invited him to appear in his programmes ''That Peter Kay Thing'', ''Phoenix Nights'' and ''Ma ...
in which her husband Farhan Akhtar also appeared as a guest representing India.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
Actresses from Pune
Indian people
Indian women
Female models from Maharashtra
Marathi people
Indian film actresses
Indian women singers
Indian female models
Indian emigrants to Australia
Actresses from Sydney
Australian film actresses
Australian women singers
Australian female models
Australian women television presenters
Australian VJs (media personalities)
Australian people of Marathi descent
Australian people of Indian descent
Australian actresses of Indian descent
Australian expatriate actresses in India
Actresses in Marathi cinema
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi participants
21st-century Australian actresses
21st-century Australian singers
21st-century Australian women singers
1980 births