{"id":16081,"date":"2021-11-05T21:29:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seminarsonly.com\/news\/?p=16081"},"modified":"2021-11-05T21:29:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:59:25","slug":"bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhavana Star Sports : Bhavana Balakrishnan Career, Personal life, Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Bhavana Star Sports : Bhavana Balakrishnan Career, Personal life, Husband<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Bhavana Balakrishnan also spelt as Bhavna Balakrishnan also simply known as VJ Bhavana (born 22 May 1985) is an Indian television anchor, cricket commentator, video jockey, playback singer and dancer. She is one of the most popular sports journalists in India after Mayanti Langer. She currently works as a broadcaster for Star Sports and has hosted several programmes for the channel. Balakrishnan was one of the women to commentate during the 2019 Cricket World Cup.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Career\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"color: #800000;\">Career<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Balakrishnan began her career as a radio jockey for a brief period and ventured into television. She joined Raj TV as a host, and the first television show she hosted was Beach Girls Show. She later joined Star Vijay channel and became a full-time anchor with the channel in 2011. Her first programme with Vijay TV was Super Singer Junior, and she also hosted Airtel Super Singer until 2018. She has hosted other shows with the channel including the &#8220;Fun Unlimited&#8221; season of Jodi Number One.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, she joined Star Sports as a sports journalist and hosted broadcasts of for the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Pro Kabaddi League. She served as a commentator for Star Sports Tamil during the 2018 IPL season and was one of just two female presenters during the 2018 Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-66451563,imgsize-392955,width-800,height-600,resizemode-75\/66451563.jpg\" data-imgid=\"66451563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Balakrishnan made her debut as singer in 2018 and released her first single The MashUp Series by BB. In 2020, she sang her first playback song for music director Dharan. The song &#8220;Veerathi Veera&#8221; has more than half a million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TP3iJN5pc3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seminarsonly.com\/news\/t20-world-cup-2021-live-tv-channel-india-free-cricket-t20-world-cup-2021-live\/\">T20 World Cup 2021 Live TV Channel India Free : Cricket T20 World Cup 2021 Live<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;T20 World Cup 2021 Live TV Channel India Free : Cricket T20 World Cup 2021 Live&#8221; &#8212; Seminarsonly.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seminarsonly.com\/news\/t20-world-cup-2021-live-tv-channel-india-free-cricket-t20-world-cup-2021-live\/embed\/#?secret=b9cbS2XSA2#?secret=TP3iJN5pc3\" data-secret=\"TP3iJN5pc3\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Personal_life\" class=\"mw-headline\" style=\"color: #800000;\">Personal life<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>She married Mumbai based businessman Nikhil Ramesh and currently resides in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Bhavna Balakrishnan on being the lead presenter on Star Sports 1 Tamil said, &#8220;It is a lot of responsibility because for the Star Sports Tamil team, I am the only female presenter and all my colleagues are insanely talented and extremely experienced. They&#8217;ve been doing this for a while and this is just my second year in sport even though it\u2019s my 9-10th year in this work space.<\/p>\n<p>I took this opportunity because I wanted to see if it was possible to push boundaries and take up the challenge. And it&#8217;s been fantastic so far, I feel like I&#8217;m back in the 10th and 12th grade prepping for my board exams every time I come into the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhavana Star Sports : Bhavana Balakrishnan Career, Personal life, Husband Bhavana Balakrishnan also spelt as Bhavna Balakrishnan also simply known as VJ Bhavana (born 22 May 1985) is an Indian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bhavana Star Sports : Bhavana Balakrishnan Career, Personal life, Husband - Seminarsonly.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bhavana Balakrishnan also spelt as Bhavna Balakrishnan also simply known as VJ Bhavana (born 22 May 1985) is an Indian television anchor, cricket commentator, video jockey, playback singer and dancer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bhavana Star Sports : Bhavana Balakrishnan Career, Personal life, Husband\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bhavana Balakrishnan also spelt as Bhavna Balakrishnan also simply known as VJ Bhavana (born 22 May 1985) is an Indian television anchor, cricket commentator, video jockey, playback singer and dancer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Seminarsonly.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/seminarsonly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-05T15:59:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-66451563,imgsize-392955,width-800,height-600,resizemode-75\/66451563.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Freddy John\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@seminarsonly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@seminarsonly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Freddy John\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Freddy John\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/75cf706896b7210fb0a84651adc258bd\"},\"headline\":\"Bhavana Star Sports : Bhavana Balakrishnan Career, Personal life, Husband\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-05T15:59:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/\"},\"wordCount\":411,\"commentCount\":2,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-66451563,imgsize-392955,width-800,height-600,resizemode-75\/66451563.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"news\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bhavana-star-sports-bhavana-balakrishnan-career-personal-life-husband\/\",\"name\":\"Bhavana Star Sports : Bhavana Balakrishnan Career, Personal life, Husband - 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