Yash

Yash is, to me, one of Indian cinema's great self-made stories. Born Naveen Kumar in a village in Hassan district and schooled in Mysore, he ground his way up from minor television roles to become a defining face of Kannada cinema, with three Filmfare Awards South and five SIIMA Awards to show for it. I am always partial to stars who served a long apprenticeship, because the hunger from those years tends to stay visible on screen. His magnetism and that famous intensity feel earned rather than manufactured. He did not just succeed; he helped push his regional industry onto a far bigger stage, and that ambition is what makes me genuinely admire him.

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Name (English)

Yash

Name (Japanese)

ヤシュ

Reading

やしゅ

Born

January 8, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Boovanahalli, Hassan, Karnataka, India

Occupation

actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Awards South

• Official sitehttps://www.nimmayash.in/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thenameisyash/
• Xhttps://x.com/TheNameIsYash
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yash%20(actor)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15721444

Tags

• Karnataka
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.