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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.
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
- Occupation
- actor
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishore%20(actor%2C%20born%201974)
Frequently asked questions
When was Kishore Kumar born?
Born August 14, 1974 (age 51).
Where is Kishore Kumar from?
Kishore Kumar is from Karnataka, India.
What does Kishore Kumar do?
Kishore Kumar works as actor.
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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 or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.