Kishore Kumar

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.

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Name (English)

Kishore Kumar

Name (Japanese)

キショール

Reading

きしょーる

Born

August 14, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

Karnataka, India

Occupation

actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishore%20(actor%2C%20born%201974)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6416627

Tags

• Karnataka
• actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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