Rajiv/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Rajiv is a fictional tank engine created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.

In 2016, Rajiv made his debut in the movie, "The Great Race".

Since 2018, Rajiv has been voiced by Nikhil Parmar (UK/US) in the CGI version of the series on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively, thus voiced with a matching accent to his home country.

Rajiv is based off of the Fairy Queen, a 2-2-2 tank engine built in Leeds, England for the East Indian Railway Company. Whereas the original Fairy Queen is broad gauge, Rajiv is scaled down to standard gauge. Additionally, his buffers are much closer together than the original Fairy Queen's.

CGI Model
In 2009, the series introduced Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) as a replacement for the show's long-standing live-action models. In 2015, Rajiv was created from scratch in CGI by Arc Productions for the 2016 movie, The Great Race. The model was "hand-sculpted" in Maya, a 3D animation and modelling software.

Voice Actors

 * Nikhil Parmar
 * Yuta Odagaki
 * Alfredo Tovar
 * Miguel Ángel Poison
 * Tomasz Borkowski
 * Mark Bremer
 * Danny Francucci
 * Petrus Kähkönen
 * André Sauer
 * Markovics Tamás
 * Anton Savenkov