Draft:Aarti Malhotra

Aarti Malhotra, popularly known as RJ Aarti is a masterly Indian radio jockey from New Delhi. She has been presenting All Indian Radio on renowned platforms for the past 15 years. She is the divine and popular voice of shows like Aashiyana - Rainbow Helpline, Citylights, and Parwaz Hai Kaam Tera.

Being an RJ, she holds expertise in other fields also as a News Editor at News Service Division of All India Radio, a Stage Anchor, a voice-over artist, an actress, and an entrepreneur of two companies named ‘Art Productions’ www.tartp.com and ‘Golden Sparrows’. She was among the finest voices in the country who have lent their voice as the spot commentator to make Republic Day celebrations memorable for millions across the country.

She has played the role of lead cast’s Mother in the International biography of Aarushi Talwar’s murder case which was broadcasted by platforms like HBO and Star Movies. For her outstanding work, she has been honored and awarded by the prestigious organization UNICEF in 2019.

Early Life
Aarti was born on has been born and brought to New Delhi in a very sophisticated, disciplined, and loving middle-class family. She has two brothers. Her mother is a housewife and her father was a businessman.

Her father was a heart and kidney patient and because of that she got married at the very early age of 19 and become a mother at the age of 20. Since her childhood, Aarti was fervor about TV anchoring and news reading.

Her father used to motivate her to become a TV journalist and she always dreamed about working at Doordarshan. But with the support of her family, she continued her studies and attained her graduation degree in Mass Communication from IGNOU (Indra Gandhi National Open University).

Career
Aarti started her career as a freelancer and that’s how she took the first step towards her dream. She gave multiple auditions but didn’t succeed for almost two years. After numerous attempts, she finally earned the job of an announcer in Medium Wave at Indraprastha Rajdhani Channel.

As an announcer, she used to work six hours continuously but she managed to keep her work going by the sweating brow. In 2009, she cleared the exam and got placed at FM Rainbow and along with that, she passed another exam and attained the position of News Editor at News Service Division.

She is the divine and popular voice of shows like Aashiyana- Rainbow Helpline on which she interviews prominent personalities, her other shows Citylights, and Parwaz Hai Kaam Tera.

In her journey, she has done anchoring at various ministerial stages such as Health Ministry & WHO, Sports Ministry, Education Ministry, Rural and Development Ministry, Kendriya Bhandar, Pallibani Mission, Delhi govt. Metadata.

Cinema And Television
The inspiring thing about her work is she grabbed every opportunity that knocked on her door and aces it with her excellence. As an actress, she has done three movies, three movies, and various modeling shoots. In her acting career, she shot her first serial in Kashmir with the renowned actor ‘Rajat Kapoor’.

She has also played the role of lead cast Mother in the International biography of Aarushi Talwar’s murder case which was broadcasted by platforms like HBO and Star Movies. She has also worked in a Bollywood movie named ‘Ghost and Super Kid’ whose shooting has been wrapped up in Chandigarh but because of some reasons, it didn’t release. And, in 2019 she started her production house named ‘Art Production’ and released some glorious movies named ‘Mera Dard Mera Raaz’, ‘Silbatta’ and some remarkable documentary projects.

Other Works
In 2012, she received the golden call from the world’s most influential organization – UNICEF, but at that time aarti was in the trap of fear and performance anxiety so she didn’t take the shot. But, in 2016 the time flipped its coin again, and the UNICEF opportunity knocked on her door and without any second thought, she grabbed the opportunity. She went to Mumbai and won three nominations from UNICEF for her wonderful coordination for the child & social welfare project.

Achievements
In 2019, she was also bestowed by the prominent actress ‘Kareena Kapoor’, the brand ambassador of UNICEF for her work. For her remarkable contribution, she has been bestowed with awards like Woman of worth, 2020, Kalam ke Sipahi 2021 by G. L Bajaj university and NAI ( Newspaper Association of India), and Talent of the year, 2019. She has been honored as 'Honorary Doctorate' by the ROMA country government committee for her contribution to Media.

The awe-inspiring moment of her life was In 2018, when she was invited as the guest speaker of ITS, Ghaziabad for their media conclave and she got the chance to share the stage with the renowned personality of Radio, Mr. Laxmi Shankar Vajpayee, the retired Director of All India Radio who was also her mentor.

Personal Life
Aarti was married at the age of 19 and has two children, a son, and a daughter. She always believed in one thing that without action, there’s no change. Never give up on their dreams just because of the time it will take to accomplish them. And, if you got to fight, just do it anyway for the sake of your dreams.

She believes that without action, there’s no change. She inspires everyone to never give up on their dreams just because of the time it will take to accomplish them. And, if you got to fight, just do it anyway for the sake of your dreams. She is a soft spirit in his hard world whose voice and story can inspire millions.