Rannvijay Singh is an Indian television host, film actor and presenter. He is best known for hosting the adventure reality TV show, MTV Roadies. He is based in Mumbai, India.
Rannvijay's father is an army officer with the Indian Army, making Rannvijay's six generation male ancestors to be directly related to the Indian Army. He changed nine schools, as his father's transfers of service in the a...Rannvijay Singh is an Indian television host, film actor and presenter. He is best known for hosting the adventure reality TV show, MTV Roadies. He is based in Mumbai, India.
Rannvijay's father is an army officer with the Indian Army, making Rannvijay's six generation male ancestors to be directly related to the Indian Army. He changed nine schools, as his father's transfers of service in the army required the family to keep on moving to different places within India, even as he did a major part of his schooling from a boarding school. He attended the Army Public School Dhaula Kuan in New Delhi, Army Public School, Dagshai and graduated from Hans Raj College,Delhi University.
Although he was all set to join the Indian Army after passing the exams and clearing the medical test, he just happened to participate in an adventure reality TV show on MTV India, MTV Roadies Season 1 in 2003 and emerged as a finalist. He said in an interview with Zee News, "Frankly speaking, I never wanted to come under the spotlight. I took up Roadies because I wanted to win the bike Karizma, which, according to me, is the best bike. So, destiny took its turn and I became what I am today." Thereafter, MTV offered him to host the same show. He has been associated with MTV and the show Roadies since then. He elaborated, "If not the entertainment industry, I would have definitely joined the Army - like everybody else in my family. We have all served the nation. And I was on my way to joining the Army when Roadies happened." MTV India roped him in to host some other shows like MTV Stuntmania, MTV Splitsvilla Season 1, MTV The Fast and The Gorgeous and MTV Teen Diva. He also made a brief appearance in MTV Splitsvilla Season 2. Rannvijay is currently hosting the 14th season of the MTV Roadies show that started airing from February 2016. About experience of the show, he said, "The travel itself turned out to be an exhilarating experience. My memorable moment will always remain the bike journey across Arunachal Pradesh with Raghu." Rannvijay was also part of the MTV Show RannVJRun which featured Rannvijay, Anshuman Jeswal & Rishabh Dhir, which is a 10 episode series in which Rannvijay goes to 10 different locations across the world and try Extreme Sports. Singh will appear in the Hindi military TV serial Pukaar.
Rannvijay worked for Reliance Communications for a series of television commercials with leading Bollywood actress, Anushka Sharma. All these advertisements, directed by Shoojit Sircar, were a part of Reliance's Mera vs Tera (Mine vs Yours) Campaign, where Rannvijay plays the Tera (Yours) network, competing with Anushka's Mera (Mine) network that's Reliance. Rannvijay said about the campaign, "While we are shooting it, we're all having a lot of fun. It's very today. It also portrays little bickering that is common in every relationship." He also commented, "I'm shooting with Anushka for the first time. I found out that she's also an army officer's daughter. We're having a great time shooting.
