Madhu Mailankody photoshoot stills by Pritham Dsouza

Madhu Mailankody is a VJ, Tv anchor, MC, event manager and event maker. Madhu became a well known face in Kannada Television after she started hosting cricket game for Star Sports Kannada.

Madhu Mailankody hails from Kerala (Kasargode) and now settled at Mangalore. She has been now working at Star Sports Kannada for past 3 years. Madhu was the first anchor to go live on air after the Walt Disney owned Star India launched the Star Sports 1 Kannada, said to be the country’s first and only dedicated Kannada sports channel.
She was a well known face for Mangalureans through anchoring and hosting various events for past several years. She entered Star Sports in 2017 as an anchor for Indian Super League (ISL). Then in 2018-2019 she was an anchor for the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL). In 2018-2019 she was a host for the Premiere Badminton League (PBL). She has been the host MC for Karnataka Premiere League (KPL) since 2015. She was the solo host for three seasons of Mangalore Premier League (MPL) and then went on to become the voice of Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium for over 35,000 spectators during Indian Premier League (IPL). She also played the role of an anchor during several international cricket tournaments. Earlier this year she was part of the Asia Federation Cup.
Talking about her favourite cricket presenters, she says “Mayanti Langer, any day. I look up to her not just because she is a woman, but for the hard work and dedication she puts in. She knows the game in and out, despite being a non-cricketer; this is something that inspires me.”
“I have not really come across many girls interested in sports presentation. Most of them are interested in events or glamorous shows. Reasons for this could be the hard work that goes into sports presentation or the fact that there is not much entertainment here”, she says.

Here are some of Madhu Mailankody’s recent photoshoot stills by photographer Pritham D’Souza. Make up by Akshitha Shetty