RADIO NEWS PRESENTER

Siddharth Kannan

Siddharth Kannan is an Indian television and radio host,

announcer, voice-over actor and a film critic.
He was born into a Tamil speaking family in New Delhi to parents
V. Kannan and Radha Kannan, Sid K as he is popularly known
as, moved to Kolkata with them and then spent 8 years in
Lucknow and finally moved base with his family to Mumbai in
1994.
At the age of 14, Siddharth joined Times FM as a Radio Host.
He holds the record for becoming the youngest radio host in
India. In 1997, while at college, he joined Radio Star on 107.1
FM and hosted a show with Cyrus Broacha called ‘Miranda Char
Baje Band Baje’. He started India’s first radio school called ‘Wild
on Air’ in 1999. Emirates 2 FM in Dubai syndicated their Hindi
shows to him, for whom he hosted and produced shows from
Mumbai. He also produced and hosted shows for Rediff Radio
on rediff.com. In 2009, He started an A list Bollywood celebrity
chat show ‘Meow Starburst’ on Meow 104.8fm. Later called as
‘Oye talkies’ and then re-christened as ‘Bollywood Khul Ke‘ on
Oye 104.8FM(a TV Today Network initiative). Sid K has
interviewed Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan,
Himesh Reshammiya, Aamir Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika
Padukone, and Katrina Kaif.

He hosted his first TV show in 2006 –’Santa and Banta Newz

Unlimited’ with renowned singer and rapper Baba Sehgal on
Zoom. In 2010,Sid started his next TV show ‘See Taare Mastiii
Mein’ –An ‘A list’ celebrity chat show on Mastiii.
Mohammad Rafiq

RJ Rafiq (born 1 February 1992), also known as Mohammad

Rafiq, is an Indian radio jockey, MC, actor and voice over artist,
who currently works at Radio FM. He presents the
Vellapanti Show with RJ Rafiq from 12 PM to 3 PM.[1] He has
worked at All India Radio and at DD Kashir. Though mainly a
radio jockey, he is also active in emceeing and on digital
platforms. RJ Rafiq made his film debut in 2018 with Imtiaz Ali’s
Laila Majnu playing the role of Touseef.

Rafiq was born on 1 February 1992 in the town of Handwara,

Jammu and Kashmir. He lost his father in early age and was
raised in an orphanage in Kashmir.[3] He attended the welfare
educational institutes, Degree College Bemina, Chinab Valley
College of education, Maulana Azad National Urdu
University, Indira Gandhi National Open University and
University of Kashmir.

While he was studying, he took a job at Bharti Airtel call centre,

later he joined local cable network for few months, Rafiq started
his radio career from All India Radio as announcer. He has done
several shows for Vividh Bharti Srinagar service like Morning
show, Film Magazine, Gadget World and many more. He has
also appeared as anchor on DD Kashir for zarai khabar.[5]

Rafiq made his film debut in 2018 in Imtiaz Ali’s Laila

Majnu where he played Tauseef. He currently works at Red FM
93.5 as radio presenter.