Ranjini Haridas

In this Indian name, the name Haridas is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Ranjini.

Ranjini Haridas
Nationality	India
Occupation(s)	Actor Singer Anchor
Years active	2001–present

Ranjini Haridas is an Indian television presenter, actor, model, YouTuber and singer.

Portfolio

Ranjini Haridas went to London for her higher studies. On her return, she ventured into compering and found it lucrative. Since then she has hosted several stage shows such as Asianet Film Awards, Amrita TV Film Awards, Asiavision Awards, Flowers TV awards, Jaihind Film Awards and SIIMA. Ranjini was crowned Miss Kerala at Femina Miss Kerala - 2000. Her first recognized film appearance was for a cameo roles in China Town and Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty (2013). Later she played as a police officer in the film Entry (2013) opposite Baburaj, it was her first leading role. From 2015 she has been an integral part of Flower TV both in program management and TV hosting. She hosted the Star Singer program on Asianet TV from 2007 to 2012. In 2017 she returned to Asianet with Run Baby Run, a revamped celebrity interview programme. She along with Santhosh Pandit in 2016 was voted as the most hated and trolled artists in Malayali social media related to entertainment fields. She was a participant in Bigg Boss Malayalam (season 1).

Television

Year	Show	Role	Language	Channel	Notes
2007	Star Singer	Host	Malayalam	Asianet
2008	Star Singer				Won , Asianet Television Awards - Best Anchor
2009	Star Singer (season 4)
2010	Star Singer (season 5)				Won, Asianet Television Awards - Best Anchor
2011-12	Star Singer (season 6)
2013	Sundari niyum sundaran njanum	Judge
2013-14	Cinema company season	Host		Kaumudy TV
2014	Vanitharathnam Season 3			Amrita TV
2014	Bhima Music India			Asianet
2015	Indian Music League			Flowers (TV channel)
2017	Run Baby Run			Asianet Plus
	Hero ISL season 3			Asianet Movies
	Ithanu Njga Paranja Nadan			Surya TV
2018	Hero ISL season 4			Asianet Movies
2018	Bigg Boss Malayalam 1	Contestant		Asianet	Evicted on day 63
2019	Surya Super Singer	Host		Surya TV

Filmography

Title	Year	Role	Director	Notes
Geetham	1986	School kid	Sajan	Child artiste (uncredited)
China Town	2011	Herself	Rafi Mecartin	Cameo appearance
Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty	2012	Television presenter	T. K. Rajeev Kumar	Cameo appearance
Entry	2013	ACP Shreya	Rajesh Amanakara	Debut as heroine
What The F (WTF)	2013		Rupesh Paul	In one of the three segments.
Otta Oruthiyum Shariyalla	2013	Khayal	Syam-Praveen	Heroine
Mera Naam Shaji	2019	Diana Aby	Nadirshah	Cameo appearance

Controversies

She was openly criticised by veteran actor Jagathy Sreekumar for overstepping her boundaries as an anchor in the singing contest Star Singer. Jagathy was widely criticised of being sexist and what many felt was an unprovoked attack against the anchor publicly. There were allegations from contestants that she was doing so to influence judges in favour of certain contestants. Ranjini openly spoke about his verbal tirade and pointed out towards the inherent sexism in the Malayalam industry. She was shamed by a mob for her alleged use of unparliamentary words and physical attack on a passenger who grazed her in a jammed airport, for this she later responded the community was led by misogynists. A similar incident happened when a passenger created ruckus when he alleged that she tried to bypass queue in Airport in an attempt to use special privileges, both the parties registered cases against each other for abusive verbal attack.