In 2004, Kiran was back in New Zealand filming The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) playing a character called Ginarrbrik.He also writes poetry; his work has been published in Britain and America.Kiran is a “Guinness World Record”” holder as the “”shortest professional stuntman currently working in film”” since October 2003.”
Kiran Shah
Movies
Paa
Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) is an intelligent and witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated aging. He suffers from a progeria-like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy.…
Fun Facts
Because of his size, versitality, and willingness, Shah is much in high demand as a perspective stunt-double for long-shots in action scenes.
Auditioned for the part of R2-D2 in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), narrowly losing out to Kenny Baker.
Worked as a tailor's apprentice for six months before seriously starting his acting/stunt career.
Was Elijah Wood's scale double in all three Lord of the Rings films.
Every film he has made with John Rhys-Davies has been nominated for Best Picture: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
Has played the character 'Tonga' (from the Sherlock Holmes novel 'The Sign of Four' by A. Conan Doyle) in two different TV movies, The Sign of Four (1987) and The Crucifer of Blood (1991).
He appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners: Braveheart (1995), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Bernard Hill also appeared in the latter two films.