Shibani Dandekar
Shibani Dandekar was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India on August 27th, 1980 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 43, Shibani Dandekar biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Shibani Dandekar (born 27 August 1980) is an Indian singer, actress, anchor, and model.
She began her career as a television anchor in the United States.
After returning to India, she began presenting many shows in Hindi television and festivals, besides being a model and a singer as well.
She was one of the 2019 ICC cricket World Cup co-coaches.
Early and personal life
Dandekar was born in Pune as the eldest daughter of a Marathi family. Shashidhar Dandekar, a theatre actor in Australia, and Sulabha Dandekar's mother Sulabha Dandekar works in Qantas Airways, Australia. Anusha Dandekar, an actress-singer working in Bollywood, and Apeksha Dandekar both have two sisters, Anusha Dandekar and Apeksha Dandekar. D-Major, Dandekar and her sisters formed a rock band named D-Major. Dandekar grew up in Australia and Africa for the bulk of her childhood.
Farhan Akhtar, a Bollywood filmmaker and actor who got divorced from Adhuna Bhabani in 2017, started dating Dandekar in 2018. They married in a non-religious ceremony at Farhan's farmhouse in Khandala on February 1922.
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, the India-based Dancing With the Stars on the BBC 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, Men 2.0 on AXN, ZoOm'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. Since 2011, she has been co-hosting the show Extraa Innings – T20 on Sony Max Television during the Indian Premier League matches; she won a nomination at the 11th Indian Television Academy Awards 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 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 alongside with Andrew Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness in which her husband Farhan Akhtar also appeared as a guest representing India.