Vaishnavi Dhanraj is an Indian television and film actress. Best known for playing Inspector Tasha in Sony Entertainment Television's C.I.D., she was the protagonist in PK Lele A Salesman, an adult Hindi film in the sex comedy genre, in which she played the role of a rich girl called Mary Marlo. She has also acted as Nirbhaya in Satyagraha on Aaj Tak, Jahnvi in Na Aana Is Des Laado, Maya Thakur in Begusarai and Mahi Arora in Colors TV's Bepannaah.

CID is an Indian police procedural television series originally aired on Sony Entertainment Television from 1998 to 2018. The series was created by B. P. Singh and featured stars Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman, Aditya Srivastava as Sr. Inspector Abhijeet, Dayanand Shetty as Sr. Inspector Daya, Dinesh Phadnis as Inspector Fredricks aka Freddy and Narendra Gupta as Forensic expert Dr. Salunkhe respectively.