Kirron Kher
Also Known As: Kiron Kher, Kiran Kher, Kiron Thakursingh-Kher, किरण खेर
Biography: Kirron Kher (born June 14, 1955) is an Indian actress, singer, television personality and politician. She was born in Bangalore to a Punjabi Sikh family and grew up in Chandigarh. She primarily acts in Hindi and Punjabi films and series. She is best known for her roles in Bariwali (1999), Om Shanti Om (2007), and Khoobsurat (2014). She is also known for her role as a judge in the popular talent show, India's Got Talent, since 2009.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bangalore, Mysore Eyaleti, Hindistan
Birthday: June 14, 1955
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Gender: Female
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Hum Tum
Overview: The encounters of two people who run into each other on several occasions under circumstances ranging from friendly to hostile to loving. Along many years and countless run-ins, the two despise each other, befriend each other, and fall in love with each other—in no particular order.
Genres: Romance Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2004-05-28
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Veer-Zaara
Overview: Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Kambakkht Ishq
Overview: Kambakkht Ishq is about a stuntman and a supermodel that don't believe in love but through a hilarious series of events they fall for each other.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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Mangal Pandey - The Rising
Overview: The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2005-08-12
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Kurbaan
Overview: When a handsome young Indian couple (Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor) moves into the suburbs to claim their stake in the American dream, they are shocked to discover that they've become enmeshed in a secretive terrorist plot. But as tensions escalate, the bride begins to wonder if her husband has told her everything he knows.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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Om Shanti Om
Overview: Reincarnated 30 years after being killed in a suspicious on-set fire, a small-time actor is determined to punish the person who ignited the blaze.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-11-07
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Fanaa
Overview: Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2006-05-26
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Dostana
Overview: Two straight guys pretend to be a gay couple to secure a posh Miami apartment, but fall for their gorgeous roommate. Hilarity ensues as they strive to convince everyone of the ruse while secretly trying to win her heart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2008-11-13
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Main Hoon Na
Overview: An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2004-04-30
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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Overview: Dev and Maya are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, they still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they find in each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Devdas
Overview: After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with, Devdas Mukherjee's life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2002-07-11
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Mummy Punjabi
Overview: Mummy Punjabi is a New Age Mother India, with today`s grandeur, intensity, humour & emotions. A complete family entertainer, wherein a Punjabi urban mother balances tradition with her own value system.
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Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2011-08-31
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Silent Waters
Overview: Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men are soon gripped by a religious fervour, and they attempt to bring radical Islamic law to their friends and neighbours. After a group of Sikh pilgrims arrive in town, tensions reach boiling point as Ayesha's haunted past comes rushing back.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ur
Release Date: 2003-08-15
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Sardari Begum
Overview: Sardari Begum is a 1996 Hindi movie directed by Shyam Benegal. The film stars Kiron Kher, Amrish Puri, Rajit Kapur and Rajeshwari Sachdev. The film's lead actress Kiron Kher won the 1997 National Film Award - Special Jury Award. Rajeshwari Sachdev won the 1997 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. The music by Vanraj Bhatia also received wide acclaim. Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar, the play back singer of the film also received accolades in the category of 'Best Playback Singer'. This film focuses on the complex portrait of family relationships, generational and sexual politics as well as social mores in India.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ur
Release Date: 1996-05-23
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Total Siyapaa
Overview: Aman, a Pakistani man living in London, falls in love with Asha, an Indian woman. But he must convince her parents to let them get married, despite their different nationalities.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2014-03-07
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Pestonjee
Overview: Phiroj and Pesi are close friends and both fall in love with Jeroo but Phiroj decides to walk away and lets Pesi marry her. Years later, he returns and discovers a shocking secret.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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Punjab 1984
Overview: This is the story of a mother and her missing son set in the backdrop of 1984 Punjab, when the state was going through a terrible time of terrorism. The film depicts the longing of a mother for her son and her search for her son, who is labelled a terrorist because of the bad times in Punjab.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: pa
Release Date: 2014-06-27
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Akarshan
Overview: Love story about an actress falling in love with her costar
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-02-21
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Karz
Overview: Suraj is the adopted son of a wealthy hotel owner who is haunted by memories of his birth mother's rejection. He befriends Raja not knowing that he is in fact his younger brother and even gives up his love Sapna to Raja. Through Raja he is reunited with his birth mother and it is revealed that she was raped by a criminal who fathered Suraj. After many fights, flying bodies, car chases, and broken glass, Suraj eventually exacts revenge on his birth father and dies happily in his mother's arms.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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Ehsaas: The Feeling
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2001-01-11
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Apne
Overview: An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) 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 to wash the stain. An opportunity strikes Baldev in the form of a T.V. Show. He trains a local boy to get into this media hyped boxing show, but is ditched for a better coach at the last minute. Baldev's younger son Karan (Bobby Deol) has just launched his first music album. Realizing his father is in crises of his life, he gives up his dream of a musical career to get into the game of boxing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-06-29
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Singh Is Kinng
Overview: A comic caper about Happy Singh, a Punjabi villager who goes through a series of misadventures and eventually becomes the King of the Australian underworld.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Khoobsurat
Overview: A vibrant, hopelessly romantic physiotherapist meets a handsome young Rajput prince who is the complete opposite of her – and is engaged to someone else.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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Bariwali
Overview: A quiet drama about a lonely, sad, middle-aged woman, Banalata, who has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2000-02-16
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Saas Bahu Aur Sensex
Overview: After a bitter divorce from her Kolkata-based husband, Binita Sen re-locates to live in Modern Society, Navi Mumbai, along with her resentful daughter, Nitya. She is soon befriended by a kitty-party group consisting of Jasbeer Brar, Anita Jethmalani, Dilnavaz Noorani, Parimal Bhosle, Lata Kodialbal, and Sania Noorani, whose primary interest appears to be a daytime soap featuring modern characters of two lovers, Kunti and Arjun. Binita gets hired as a teacher, while Nitya gets a job at a call-center, MacMillan & Modi, through stock broker Feroz Sethna and Ritesh Jethmalani respectively. While Nitya gets attracted to Ritesh, she is a little dejected after she finds he has a steady girlfriend in Kirti Wagaskar.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Rang De Basanti
Overview: After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2006-01-26
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Just Married
Overview: A film about five couples who are on their honeymoon at Ooty and share the same hotel. All of them are pretty newly wed except for one who are celebrating their wedding anniversary. Together the couples take many tours and visit sites together in Ooty and get to know each other on a personable level. Slowly and steadily host of stories open up about each of them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Ajab Gazabb Love
Overview: Ajab Gazabb Love ('Strange and Amazing Love') is a 2012 Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by Sanjay Gadhvi and produced by Vashu Bhagnani. The film stars Jackky Bhagnani opposite Nidhi Subbaiah in lead roles, along with Arjun Rampal, Darshan Jariwala and Kirron Kher in supporting roles, whilst Arshad Warsi appears in a cameo role.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2012-10-24
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I See You
Overview: Dr Shivani Dutt living and working in a hospital in London, notices some of her colleagues delving in organ trafficking. Before she can expose them she is involved in an accident, leaving her on a life support machine.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2006-12-29
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Milenge Milenge
Overview: Hoping that destiny will re-unite them, a couple, on the verge of getting married, attempt to locate each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2010-07-09
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Darmiyaan: In Between
Overview: The saga of Mazhuddin Khan alias Immi, born in 1939 in Bombay, British India, as a eunuch, whose mother, Zeenat, in denial that she has sired him, refers to him as her younger brother. She attains fame, has an affair with Inder Kumar Bhalla, only to lose him years later to a younger actress, Chitra. Embittered, she sets out to seek vengeance, takes to gambling and alcohol, isolates and alienates herself from the film-world, and then must also deal with the news that Immi has become the 'father' of a male child, Murad. In the end, it is Immi that saves her from total self-destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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