User:Anupama Bhat (anchor)

Anupama Bhat is an Indian television actor, anchor & a dubbing artiste who works predominantly in Kannada language. She started hosting television shows at the age of 13 & was counted as the first youngest anchor to host shows of all genres. Since then, she has been entertaining her viewers for more than a decade. Anupama has been awarded the "Best Anchor" by Karnataka TV Loka.

Early life
Anupama Bhat was born to Mr. Srikrishna Bhat and Mrs. Gayathri Srikrishna Bhat in Mangalore, Karnataka. Her elder sister Anuradha_Bhat is a popular Indian playback singer.

Anupama received her primary school education from Canara School, Mangalore. The family relocated to Bangalore when she was 13 years old after which she continued her studies in BET convent, Jain Pre-University College & PESIT where she completed her Bachelor's in Business Management (BBM).

Right from school days, Anupama got trained in Hindustani Vocal under Sri Mounesh Kumar Chavni. She also learnt Bharathnatyam under Smt.Vid. Kamala Bhat & later joined Abhinava Dance Company headed by Nirupama-Rajendra to pursue Kathak.

Anupama made her first stage appearance in a dance drama at the tender age of 3 where she played the role of Lord Krishna. Schooling and extra curricular activities went hand in hand. She participated in various activities like singing, dancing & debating at State Level competitions & won several prizes & recognition. Since then, there has been no looking back for her.

Career
She has hosted several award shows, reality shows, movie based shows, interviews of actors and politicians, kids shows, comedy shows, live phone-in shows, quiz shows, astrology based shows. She is not just a TV host but also hosted more than 1500 stage shows that includes Mysore Dasara, Hampi Utsava and concerts of SPB, Hamsalekha, Gurukiran, Arjun Janya, Vijay Prakash. She was also invited by the Kannada Sangha’s of Sydney & Melbourne (Australia), Singapore, Dubai, Qatar and has hosted several shows overseas.

She has also lent her voice for heroines as a dubbing artist for several movies.

She played the lead role of the daily soap LoveLavike for Zee Kannada.

Adding to her versatility she was also a part of comedy shows like Udaya Tv’s Comedy time and Star Suvarna’s Bharjari Comedy.

She is the first runner up of Colors Kannada’s Dancing Star (season1) She was the Top 5 contestant of Bigg Boss (season2) who lived in the most talked about house for 91days at Lonavala.

She was awarded as the ‘Best Anchor’ by Karnataka TV Loka for her service in the field of anchoring. She was also awarded as the ‘Style Icon’ by Zee Kannada. Sahasa Simha Dr. Vishnuvardhan was a huge fan of Anupama’s anchoring and she says that’s the best compliment she has received.