Who are the female Indian VJs who made it to Bollywood?

Urmila Solanki

BBA in mass communication | Posted on 2-Mar-2019

Let’s admit it, we all have grown up watching Roadies for Ranvijay, waiting for Nikhil’s take on music, and relying on the fashion sense of Anusha Dandekar, haven’t we?

VJs or Video Jockeys have been an inevitable part of every 90’s kid’s entertainment, and we all can name a few. Not only this, we have our favorite VJs like Ayushmann Khurrana making it big in Bollywood. But here we are to talk about female VJs, which are less in comparison to the number of male VJs, but are equally effective, nevertheless.

As to answer your question, below is the list of female Indian VJs who were able to make it big in Bollywood.

1. Malaika Arora

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She is an evergreen beauty, we all know this. And she made her debut in Bollywood with the iconic “Chaiyya Chaiyya”, is also something we all know. What many of us don’t know is that she used to be a VJ before joining the tinsel town. Gone are the days when she used to feature in ‘Style Check’ and ‘MTV Love Line’.

She was back on MTV in 2017, judging India’s Next Top Model.

2. Shruti Seth

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Before joining Bollywood, we know this face from the popular Children’s TV show, Shararat. Before all this, however, she was a TV anchor for Sony TV and Star Plus.

3. Mahima Chaudhry

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If there is one VJ who got to bag all the big banner movies in 90’s, it was Mahima Chaudhry. Even her debut was a grand one –Subhash Ghai’s “Pardes”, opposite Shah Rukh Khan.

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4. Sophie Choudry

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This beauty became a VJ after establishing herself as a singer and launching a music album in 2000. She then moved on to make her Bollywood debut with “Pyar Ke Side Effect”, playing a cameo. Despite not doing any big role in Bollywood, she has become a known face in the industry.

5. Rhea Chakraborty

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She is the more recent one, having started her career as a VJ in 2009 with MTV “Teen Diva”. After that

she came to host a number a shows on MTV, and also lost the lead role in “Band Baaja Baarat” to Anushka Sharma. She finally played the female protagonist in movies like “Sonali Cable” and “Meri Dad Ki Maaruti”.