Bhavana Balakrishnan


Bhavana Balakrishnan also spelt as Bhavna Balakrishnan also simply known as VJ Bhavana is an Indian television anchor, cricket commentator, video jockey, playback singer and dancer. She is one of the popular sports journalists in India after Mayanti Langer. She currently works as a broadcaster for Star Sports and also hosted several programmes for the channel. Bhavana was one of the fewest women to serve as a commentator during the 2019 Cricket World Cup.

Career

She is a trained classical Bharathanatiyam dancer since her childhood. She completed her postgraduate MBA degree at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai before pursuing her career in media.
Bhavana began her career as a radio jockey for a brief period and ventured into television. She joined Raj TV as a host and hosted her first television show Beach Girls Show. She later joined Star Vijay channel and became a full-time anchor with the channel since 2011. Her first programme with Vijay TV was Super Singer Junior and also hosted Airtel Super Singer until 2018. She also hosted other shows with Vijay TV including Jodi Number One Jodi Fun Unlimited.
In 2018, she joined Star Sports as a sports journalist and hosted shows including Indian Premier League and Pro Kabaddi League. She served as commentator for the Star Sports Tamil during the 2018 IPL season and was just one of two female presenters during the 2018 Indian Premier League.
She also made her debut as singer in 2018 and released her first single The MashUp Series by BB.

Personal life

She married Mumbai based businessman Nikhil Ramesh and currently resides in Mumbai.