Background
Shibani Dandekar was born as the eldest daughter into a Marathi-speaking chitpavan family. Shibani grew up in Australia.
Shibani Dandekar was born as the eldest daughter into a Marathi-speaking chitpavan family. Shibani grew up in Australia.
She began her career working as a television anchor in American television Following her return to India, she began hosting several shows in Hindi television and events, besides working as a model and a singer as well. She has two siblings, Anusha Dandekar, an actress-singer working in Bollywood, and Apeksha Dandekar.
In 2001, she moved to New York, United States 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 British Broadcasting Corporation network and hosted in India on Colors television
She returned to India and continued her work as a television host, while venturing into modelling as well. She was featured on the men"s magazine Gentlemen’s Quarterly India and has appeared in a television advertisement alongside noted Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra.
Apart from music and modeling, Shibani’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, Household Bank, Spice Mobile, JBL, Music Television Coke Studio, Nivea and the Sony Launch of the tribute to Michael Jackson ‘This is lieutenant’.
Popular shows Shibani has anchored include the lifestyle shows After Hours on Zee Cafe, Men 2.0 on AXN, ZoOm"s Let"s Design, India"s Sexiest Bachelor on Big Columbia Broadcasting System Prime, as well as its extension India"s Glam Diva on Big Columbia Broadcasting System Love. Shibani also anchored the Indian produced Grammy Nominees Special on Video Hits One as a lead-up to the 53rd Grammy Awards. She is hosting the Mission cover shot for National Geography channel.
And she even did a dance number Hi Poli Saajuk for 2014"s biggest hit Marathi movie Timepass,followed by 36 Nakhrewali in Sangharsh.
She played the role "Zoya" in the movie Roy which was released on February 13, 2015.
