Mini Mathur

 Some Lesser Known Facts About Mini Mathur

• Does Mini Mathur drink alcohol?: Yes

• Before marking her entry into the entertainment world, Mini worked as an advertising professional with J Walter Thompson, New Delhi through IMT Campus Placement.

• She started receiving modelling offers after becoming the “Face of Ray-Ban” sunglasses.

  

• It was after she became the face of Ray-Ban that she got her first game show “Tol Mol Ke Bol.”

  

• Mini Mather became a VJ with MTV after hosting quite a few game shows. She became quite popular with hosting international concerts, interviewing celebrities, and appearing on youth campuses.

  

• Mini hosted a cultural show on India “Bombay Blush” that aired in the UK. She hosted 2 seasons of the show on BBC2. Mini Mathur became a household name with the first season of the singing reality show “Indian Idol,” and remained the host of the show for three seasons (2004-07).

• She took a break from the TV when she had her first child, and later did come back as a host of Indian Idol season 6 in 2012.

• In 2009, Mini hosted the reality show “Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao.” After hosting a number of reality shows, Mathur appeared as a contestant in season 2 of the dance reality show “Jhalak Dikhla Ja.”

  

• In 2013, she appeared in the movie “I, Me Aur Main.”

  

• As she has always been a keen quizzer herself, she hosted a hardcore sports quiz show called Sports ka Superstar which gave her a chance to polish her knowledge on sports and appear on 2 seasons of Kaun Banega Crorepati as an expert lifeline.

• Apart from interviewing politicians, industrialists, and opinion makers on national television, Mini has also appeared in the advertisements for popular brands like Ultra Doux, L’Oreal, and Comfort.

• Mini Mathur also hosted and produced a travel show “Mini Me” along with her daughter which aired on TLC India. She went on a 25-day trip across Europe. She visited 15 cities in seven countries (Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia and Spain) in 25 days.

• In 2019, Mini Mathur appeared in Amazon Prime’s web-series “Mind The Malhotras” along with Cyrus Sahukar.
  
• She has a pleasant sense of style and loves handloom sarees.

• Closet Stand-up Comic” are the words which she would use to describe herself.

• She is scared of heights.

• Mini is quite fond of diving; and did a diving certification for her honeymoon. Once while diving in the Maldives, she ran out of oxygen and even hit her head.

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My underwater romance with one of the three giant #Mantaray we saw! What a dance of joy #scubadiving #maldives #hbrmaldives PS: You can see that the TV presenter in me is dying to talk . Dayumm.

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• When she was dating her husband, Kabir Khan, he used to send her postcards from all the places that he travelled. She considers those postcards her most-prized possession.

• Once, when she was holidaying in China, she ordered chicken soup. In the end, after she had finished her meal, she saw a dead chicken with eyes, feathers, and claws.

• Mathur has eaten oysters, snails, fried insects, bugs, and bees but she has never tried snakes, monkeys, and rabbits.

• She has designed her home herself and has incorporated different things from different countries.

• Her daughter was only six months old when she began doing the reality show “Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao.”

• Besides going on holidays with her husband, she also likes travelling with her friends Maria, Sandhya, and Jaya.

  

• She considers herself a ‘Grammar Nazi.’

• The North Pole, Bora Bora, French Polynesia are her dream destinations.

• When she went to Munich while shooting for the travel show with her daughter, she stayed in a Youth Hostel in a tiny room that one could open only one person’s suitcase at a time.

• One of her special childhood memories was when she went to Disneyland in Florida. She ate a pepperoni pizza and had a banana split for the first time ever. She felt that she was a part of Riverdale High (of Archie Comics fame).

• Mini Mathur’s first crush was her brother’s best friend from school.

• She shouts at people and says things that she does not mean when she gets angry.

• Mathur would like to remove corrupt, dumb, and self-serving politicians from the earth.

•  She dislikes puff sleeves and printed jeans.

• Going out for lunch with friends, spending a day at the spa, Sunday Brunch, and lazying around at home with her family de-stresses her.

• Her leisure time includes watching a movie with her husband after a long day of work.

• Since she is a graduate in English Literature, she reads daily for 1-2 hours.

• Mini Mathur’s father-in-law, Rasheeduddin Khan, is a writer.

• The lowest point in her life was when she suffered from postnatal depression.

• She loves dogs and has a Siberian Husky named Blue Khan.