Kiran Kumar
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Kiran Kumar in March 2013
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| Born |
Deepak Dar 20 October 1953 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Education | Film and Television Institute of India, Daly College |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Spouse(s) | Sushma Verma |
| Children | 2 (Srishti Kumar, Shaurya Kumar) |
| Parent(s) | Jeevan (father) |
| Relatives | Bhushan Jeevan (Brother) Nikki Jeevan, Rikki Ugra (Sisters) |
Kiran Kumar is a Mumbai-based Indian actor. He has worked on many Hindi, Rajasthani and Gujarati films.
Kiran Kumar is the son of actor Jeevan and is married to a former Gujarati actress Sushma Verma. They have two children. Their son Shaurya, is in the process of being launched and has worked with David Dhawan, Abbas Mustan, Indra Kumar and Imtiaz Ali as an assistant director & his daughter Srishti runs a jewelry and clothing label called "Sush & Shish" with her mother and works in fashion as a stylist and consultant.
Kiran is a Kashmiri by birth and has ties with the royal family by virtue of being the grandson of the Vazir-e-Vazarat of Gilgit. He is a follower of Sai Baba and has a production house named after the saint: Sainama Visions.
He attended Daly College, a boarding school in Indore, enrolled at R.D. National College in Bandra, Mumbai, and later joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTTI) in Pune. He was known as "Dipak Dar" in FTII among his friends. As a young boy, the film industry were drawn to him, partly because of his father's association with it. Kumar starred in Do Boond Pani in 1971 and went on to play the lead roles in several more movies. Kumar saw his career suffer with the release of movies like Jungle Mein Mangal, among others; however, despite this "slump" Kumar started to work in Gujarati movies where he quickly attained a cult following and the title "The Bachhan of Gujarati Cinema." Rakesh Roshan's "Khudgarz" got him back to Hindi cinema, in which negative roles in films like Tezaab and Khuda Gawah won him accolades as an antihero.
One of his first television series was with Cinveistas (Sunil Mehta, Prem Kishen. He has since established himself as a television star in the television industry in series such as: Zindagi, Ghutan,Sahil, Manzil, Grihasti, Katha Sagar, Aur Phir ek Din, Papa, Miilee, Chhajje Chajje Ka Pyar, and more.
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