Bhemaiah Chinapa Kalengada popularly known as Nikhil Chinapa, has donned many an avatar during his career. He morphs from Disc Jockey, Video Jockey-Emcee, Music Promoter-FestivaL, Director-Actor.

He studied Architecture and graduated in 1996 with a Thesis in Hospital Design. A year later he found what would be his calling, Nikhil joined MTV.

At MTV, Nikhil has hosted almost every show the channel has aired. From MTV Select – MTV’s longest running show, (it aired continuously for 10 years) to being the host of Splitsvilla, a judge in Roadies as well as Rock On and MTV Mashups. As a popular VJ, Nikhil got to spend a lot of time around music. In 2001, a conversation between friends resulted in the launch of Submerge – India’s first, and now largest Indian Electronic Dance Music (EDM) company in India.

Nikhil then began to DJ professionally. His sets are well loved and he is a mogul known and respected by his global audience.

Nikhil was also the co-founder of Sunburn. He was later the Festival Curator and partner of Vh1 Supersonic, India’s biggest Multi-genre music festival.