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- Full Name Dinesh Melwani
- Ethnicity Indian
- Nationality Indian-Canadian
- Birth Date Undisclosed
- Occupation Transactional Attorney, Social Media Celebrity
- Wife Sheena Melwani
- Children Two
Dinesh Melwani
Gained prominence as the Real Indian Dad on Social MediaMany people have debated the actual identity of "Real Indian Dad" on Sheena's social media, despite never seeing his face. When the mysterious figure appears in her TikToks, his face is frequently obscured by a giant cartoon bobblehead — even on his own TikTok and Instagram pages.
Dinesh Melwani is a transactional attorney and social media celebrity.
Who is Dinesh Melwani?
Dinesh Melwani is a transactional attorney who assists domestic and international clients on various business issues. He also routinely guest talks at MIT's Sloan School of Management, MassChallenge, The Broad Institute, and The Capital Network on themes such as strategic investments, entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and angel, seed, and venture financings.
Melwani spent time in the legal department of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and the Tokyo office of an international law firm initially in his career. During his time there, he oversaw legal matters for Mitsui's many lines of business in North, Central, and South America in that capacity. Melwani also worked as a corporate partner at an international legal firm's Boston office before joining Mintz, a full-service law company specializing in general practice.
Dinesh Melwani and Sheena Melwani
Melwani has been married to his wife, Sheena Melwani, a multimedia artist with a background in singing and songwriting, since 2009. After their wedding, the couple had two children, one son, and one daughter.
Sheena is known for her Interrupted Series YouTube/ TikTok videos, in which she performs popular songs on the piano and sings while her husband, Melwani, impersonates the Real Indian Dad and makes amusing comments.
Sheena has around 1.28 million subscribers and over 650 million total views on YouTube as of March 2022. She motivates people by combining new media technologies with popular music to communicate and influence positively.
Dinesh Melwani Being Revealed as The Real Indian Dad
Sheena Melwani started posting her covers of popular songs on TikTok during the pandemic. In one of her videos, a voice from the other room interjected with hilarious commentary while Sheena performed Saxe's song 'If the World Was Ending.'
Since then, she has included the mysterious commenter known as the "Real Indian Dad" in the series Interrupted in her videos.
Many people have debated the actual identity of "Real Indian Dad" on Sheena's social media, despite never seeing his face. When the mysterious figure appears in her TikToks, his face is frequently obscured by a giant cartoon bobblehead — even on his own TikTok and Instagram pages.
Fans had been waiting for a face reveal for quite some time, and in a TikTok, Sheena posted in 2021, she and "real Indian dad" announced that they would do so once they reached one million YouTube subscribers!
They eventually reached one million subscribers on the YouTube channel and revealed the face of "Real Indian Dad" in a TikTok video.
Sheena disclosed that her "Real Indian Dad" is not her father but the father of her two children, Melwani.
In an interview with CNN in October 2020, Sheena discussed how she got the idea for the collaboration. She explained, "I started doing live concerts on my Facebook page, where I'd take requests, almost like a human jukebox, three times a week. Then I decided to record a song after one of my online sessions to post on Instagram."
Sheena continued, "As I started the song, the heckling started. I decided to keep singing, fully expecting to delete the video. But after seeing how we both were laughing so hard, I decided to post it on my TikTok page."
