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My Take
Kishore is the kind of actor I find myself rooting for precisely because he is not a conventional star. Working across Kannada, Tamil and Telugu cinema, with detours into Malayalam and Hindi, he has built a career on character roles that demand he relearn the music of dialogue in language after language. That is a craftsman's discipline, and it shows: directors across South India keep calling him back because he makes every film around him more credible. As South Indian cinema finds global audiences, I suspect viewers will increasingly recognize his face before his name. For me, he represents the connective tissue that holds a multilingual film industry together.
Overview
Kishore Kumar G (born 14 August 1970), known mononymously as Kishore, is an Indian actor who appears in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films, alongside a few Malayalam and Hindi films.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kishore Kumar
- Name (Japanese)
- キショール
- Reading
- きしょーる
- Born
- August 14, 1974 (age 51)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Tiger
- Origin
- Karnataka, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishore%20(actor%2C%20born%201974)
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.