Kirron Kher Biography
Kirron Kher is a personality to be reckoned with and her onscreen roles are close to reality. Cine goers have seen different facets of this actress – as a courtesan in Sardari Begum, a reclusive unmarried woman in Bariwali, Sumitra in Devdas and a mother who thinks her son is gay in Dostana.
Basics on Kirron
Kirron Kher was born into a Jatt Sikh family on the 14th June 1955 in Mumbai, India. She studied at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab. Her sister Kanwal Thakar Singh and her mother Diljit Singh were active in sports and she also had a brother Amardeep Singh, a painter, who passed away in 2003.
She was married to Gautam Berry and the couple had a son Sikander Kher. After their divorce in 1985, Kirron married Anupam Kher.
Kirron Kher’s Movies
Though Kirron Kher made her debut in a Punjabi movie Aasra Pyar Da (1983), she stayed away from the arc lights to bring up her son. She worked as a costume designer and appeared in Pestonjee (1988).
In 1999, she walked away with the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in Bariwali (1999) as a woman who loses her fiancé and withdraws into a shell.
Sardari Begum (2002) saw her as a singer and courtesan who dies when she is hit by a stone during the communal riots. Her performance won her another National Film Award – Special Jury Award. Her other releases in 2002 were Darmiyan and Devdas.
In 2004, Kirron won the Bronze Leopard Award at the Locarno International Festival for her role as a mother to a radical son in Khamosh Pani. In Main Hoon Na (2004) she played Shah Rukh Khan’s step mother. She continued to play mother to Rani Mukherji in Hum Tum (2004), Preity Zinta in Veer Zaara (2004), Aamir Khan in Rang De Basanti (2006) and Kajol in Fanaa (2006).
She was part of Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om (2007) as Shah Rukh Khan’s mother. Her role was comical in the beginning and took a tragic turn in the later part as she mourns for her dead son. In Dostana (2008) she played Abhishek Bachchan’s mother who thinks her son is gay and all hell breaks loose until she decides to extend her full support to him despite his protests.
Her upcoming projects are Kambakkth Ishq (2009) and Qurbaan (2009).
Kirron Kher is a personality to be reckoned with and her onscreen roles are close to reality. Cine goers have seen different facets of this actress – as a courtesan in Sardari Begum, a reclusive unmarried woman in Bariwali, Sumitra in Devdas and a mother who thinks her son is gay in Dostana.
Basics on Kirron
Kirron Kher was born into a Jatt Sikh family on the 14th June 1955 in Mumbai, India. She studied at the Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab. Her sister Kanwal Thakar Singh and her mother Diljit Singh were active in sports and she also had a brother Amardeep Singh, a painter, who passed away in 2003.
She was married to Gautam Berry and the couple had a son Sikander Kher. After their divorce in 1985, Kirron married Anupam Kher.
Kirron Kher’s Movies
Though Kirron Kher made her debut in a Punjabi movie Aasra Pyar Da (1983), she stayed away from the arc lights to bring up her son. She worked as a costume designer and appeared in Pestonjee (1988).
In 1999, she walked away with the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in Bariwali (1999) as a woman who loses her fiancé and withdraws into a shell.
Sardari Begum (2002) saw her as a singer and courtesan who dies when she is hit by a stone during the communal riots. Her performance won her another National Film Award – Special Jury Award. Her other releases in 2002 were Darmiyan and Devdas.
In 2004, Kirron won the Bronze Leopard Award at the Locarno International Festival for her role as a mother to a radical son in Khamosh Pani. In Main Hoon Na (2004) she played Shah Rukh Khan’s step mother. She continued to play mother to Rani Mukherji in Hum Tum (2004), Preity Zinta in Veer Zaara (2004), Aamir Khan in Rang De Basanti (2006) and Kajol in Fanaa (2006).
She was part of Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om (2007) as Shah Rukh Khan’s mother. Her role was comical in the beginning and took a tragic turn in the later part as she mourns for her dead son. In Dostana (2008) she played Abhishek Bachchan’s mother who thinks her son is gay and all hell breaks loose until she decides to extend her full support to him despite his protests.
Her upcoming projects are Kambakkth Ishq (2009) and Qurbaan (2009).
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