Nikhil Chinapa

 Some Lesser Known Facts About Nikhil Chinapa

• Does Nikhil Chinapa smoke?: Not Known

• Does Nikhil Chinapa drink alcohol?: Yes

• Nikhil Chinapa is an Indian radio jockey, video jockey and TV presenter on MTV India.

• He was born in Bangalore, and he had to move to different cities; as his father served in the Indian Army.

  

• He owns a music company called Submerge Music, which is known for bringing the most prominent DJs to India such as Above & Beyond, Swedish House Mafia, Alesso, Deniz Koyu, Armin Van Buuren, Zedd, Hardwell, and Tiesto.

• He has a huge fan following on Twitter among EDM (Electronic Dance Music) enthusiasts, and he is credited as a pioneer for EDM in India.

  

• He used to host a popular weekly radio show called ‘Together’ generally known as TGTR on Sunday nights on www.tgtr.in.

• He was the festival director of ‘Asia’s premier Music Festival’, ‘Sunburn’ in Goa before parting with Percept INC in 2013.

• He solo-hosted MTV Splitsvilla season 2, 4, 5 and co-hosted season 3 with Deepti Gujral, season 6 with Sherlyn Chopra and season 7 with Sunny Leone. He also hosted many other reality shows like Maldives Travel Awards, India’s Got Talent, etc.

  

• In 2014, he collaborated with Indian online fashion brand ‘Koovs.com’.

  

• He also judged youth-based reality show ‘MTV Roadies’- season 4, 5, 7 & ‘Roadies Rising’ (2017).

• Besides his stint as a VJ, Nikhil has also made small appearances in the films like Dus (2005), Zinda (2006), and Om Shanti Om (2007).

• In an interview, he revealed that his parents still ask him when would he get a real job.

• Nikhil was one year senior to Rahul Dravid in school.