Sanjay Bharwaney

Sanjay Bharwaney is a human from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Sanjay Bharwaney works on research and development at Darkmatter Logic, a company which provides Skywatch with advanced technology. He lost his wife during the Decepticon invasion of Earth, but despite his grudge against the Transformer race, he is still willing to believe in Colonel Horiuchi's plan to form a secret alliance with the Autobots. Working behind the scenes, Sanjay provides Horiuchi with badges that let him trap the Autobots in their vehicle modes.

Sanjay has a daughter named Serena, who is taken care of by a babysitter named Swati since the loss of her mother.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

When the Autobots began to rebel against Horiuchi's methods of controlling them, they tracked the origin of the control badges to Sanjay, and made plans to obtain his master control board and use it to deactivate the badges. Since Horiuchi's involvement with the Autobots was of an unofficial nature (read: against orders), Sanjay kept the control board in his own house, and Bumblebee was sent to retrieve it. After tricking Serena into giving him the device while Sanjay was at work, Bumblebee successfully modified and returned it, while Sanjay was left none the wiser... or at he least he would've been, if Skywarp hadn't learned about the badges as well and attacked his home. The Gift Horse

Bumblebee returned to save the Bharwaneys, much to Serena's joy. Sanjay himself was shocked, but his surprise soon turned to anger as he realized Bumblebee had messed with his device and blamed him for Skywarp finding them. Serena insisted that Bumblebee was a good robot, but her father brushed her off, as his wife would still be alive if not for the Transformers' obsession with war. As the three desperately fled from the Decepticon, Bumblebee urged Sanjay to shut off the control board, as Skywarp was using it to track them. However, this was impossible, as Bumblebee's hacking had turned the board into nothing but a mini-EMP to take out the badges. Disappointed how the Autobots had betrayed Horiuchi, Sanjay was tempted to use it to burn out the circuits of both Bumblebee and Skywarp, but Serena stopped him. He reminded his daughter that Bumblebee wasn't really her friend, and had only used her to get his hands on the control board, but calmed down when Bumblebee offered her truly sincere apology.

In order to protect the humans, Bumblebee sent them on their own and asked Sanjay for the board, and he reluctantly agreed to trust him and handed it over. The Bharwaneys were subsequently taken to safety by Horiuchi's lieutenant Klonowski, and witnessed Bumblebee using the board to take out both himself and Skywarp. Wings of Wax