Kirron Kher was born on June 14, 1952 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India as Kiran Thakar Singh. She is known for her work on Devdas (2002), Rang De Basanti (2006) and Main Hoon Na (2004). She is married to Anupam Kher. They have one child.
Kirron Kher
Movies
Kambakkht Ishq
After Hollywood stuntman Lucky Doshi marries Kamini Sandhu, his Punjab-born friend and fellow Universal Studios colleague Viraj Shergill chastises him, while Kamini’s man-hating surgeon friend Simrita Rai coaches her to not be intimate with him. Simrita and Viraj clash verbally several times but things change after he ruptures his intestine…
Karan Arjun
When Durga’s husband speaks out against the tyrannical rule of his brother Durjan Singh, he is mercilessly killed, leaving Durga and her sons Karan and Arjun destitute. Durga brings up her sons without informing them of their heritage or their father’s death, but they soon find out when the elder…
Khoobsurat
Khoobsurat is a quirky, modern romantic comedy about what happens when a vibrant, hopelessly romantic physiotherapist meets a handsome young Rajput prince who is the complete opposite of her and is engaged to someone else. It is a battle of values between two individually crazy families, one that encourages discipline…
Rang De Basanti
Sue comes to India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries. She is helped by her friend Sonia who introduces her to her friends Karan, Aslam, Sukhi, and their head DJ. Sonia’s fiance, Lt Ajay Rathod, also joins the gang when in town. Their gang always gets in trouble with…
Dostana
After her parents’ deaths, Neha Melwani lives in Miami with her aunt and rents out a room in her apartment to two seemingly-gay Indian men, photographer Kunal Chauhan and nurse Sameer Acharya. She introduces them to her departing gay boss Murli and falls in love with her new boss, Abhimanyu…
Action Replayy
After witnessing nothing but acrimony between his bickering Mumbai-based parents, Kishen and Mala Chopra, Bunty refuses to marry his girlfriend, Tanya Gonsalves. He is then introduced to her eccentric grandfather, Professor Anthony Gonsalves, and finds that the latter has invented a time-travel machine. Bunty travels back in time–specifically Holi 1975–when…
Fanaa
Choices: to choose between right or wrong is simple, but what defines one’s life is the decision between the greater of two goods or the lesser of two evils. This is the advice that Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) receives from her father just as she is about to venture out…
Apne
Ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to cleanse it with his son Angad’s success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance. An opportunity strikes…
Main Hoon Na
When India and Pakistan decide to end their hostilities, there is one army person in India who is unhappy, because of his son’s death in the Indo-Pak war. He decides to launch terror attacks and bring an end to peace, and for this purpose he shoots and gravely injures an…
Milenge Milenge
Tarot Card Reader Sunita Rao informs Vasant Vihar-based idealist Priya Malhotra that she will meet her soulmate on a beach in a foreign country. While in Bangkok she meets Immy and believes he is the one–until she realizes that he wooed her by stealing her diary. She decides to test…
Total Siyapaa
Settled in London, Aman hopes to marry Asha, an Indian woman also based in London. He visits her parents’ house to seek their permission to marry her. However, his plans to impress the family start failing when they discover that he is a Pakistani.
Hum Tum
Life is not always like the movies. Love isn’t always at first sight. Very often, a relationship develops slowly and it takes many years between “boy meets girl” and “boy gets girl”. Hum Tum is a refreshing look at the eternal battle of the sexes as it follows the lives…
Om Shanti Om
Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artist in the 1970s Hindi film industry and in love with actress Shantipriya. Om rescues Shanti from an out-of-control fire scene and they become friends. His hopes seem to be coming true–until he finds out that she’s married to film producer Mukesh Mehra and…
Fun Facts
Sacrificed most of her career (took a 15-year hiatus) to bring up her son Sikander and support her husband Anupam Kher.
Won the national award for best actress for the Bengali film Bariwali (2000).
She is a Sunil Dutt discovery. She was to be launched in a film to be produced by Sunil. The film got shelved.
Shyam Benegal offered her a small role in Mandi. She refused as she was playing the lead in theatre plays.
Former husband Gautam Berry is the father of actress Tara Alisha Berry.
Daughter of actors Thakhar Singh Sandhu and Diljit Thakhar Singh ( Mummyji Punjabi).
Dubbed for Dippy Sagoo in Lamhe.
Quotes
Life is not a success story, it's a love story.