Riaz Basha (Bigg Boss Kannada Season 5)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Riaz Basha

• Does Riaz Basha smoke?: Not Known

• Does Riaz Basha drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Riaz Basha had always been active in his school’s co-curricular activities.

• During his college, he not only hosted the events of his college but was also invited by other neighbouring institutions to host their functions.

• He started his career as a voice-over artist for ‘Star Plus’ when he was still studying in college.

• Although at the beginning of his college Riaz Basha had decided to become an IAS officer, he ended up choosing to compere as a profession as he used to anchor all his inter-college festivals and developed more interest in anchoring than studies.

• His first event outside the college was for Intel. Interestingly, he was still studying in the college.

• He has been working as an anchor, TV host, MC, VO Artist for different national and international projects for more than a decade.

• Riaz Basha has shared the stage with many eminent personalities like Amitabh Bachchan, Ratan Tata, Akshay Kumar, Indra Nooyi, MS Dhoni, AR Rahman, Michael Dell, Kangana Ranaut, Bob Sinclar, Adrian Sutil, JJ Valaya, etc.

• He has worked as an RJ for Worldspace Satellite Radio and Big 92.7 FM, for a long time.

• Riaz Basha also works as a motivational speaker and his signature activities are, ‘Fire In Your Hearts’, ‘Balloon Pins’, ‘Currency & Value’, ‘Silent Whispers’, etc. Due to his energising speeches, he is also called ‘The Activator’ by his audience.

• He has got the knowledge of multiple languages including Hindi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. His knowledge of different languages has made him approach the audience with the distinct linguistic background.

• He participated as a contestant in ‘Bigg Boss Kannada Season 5’ (2017).

• Riaz Basha is an animal lover and has got a cat as a pet.