Kirron Kher

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Kirron Anupam Kher (also Kiran or, Kiron) was born on June 14, 1955, is an Indian theatre, film, and television actress, a TV talk show host, and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

She was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament from Chandigarh, in May 2014.

Early life

Kiran Thakar Singh Sandhu was born in Bangalore, Mysore, India, in 1952, into a Punjabi Jatt Sikh family of the Sandhu clan and grew up in Chandigarh. 'Kiran Berry' was a common name during her first marriage to Gautam Berry.' She recalled her maiden name and also added her new husband's surname when she married Anupam Kher, 'Kiran Thakar Singh Kher'.' She developed a firm belief in Numerology, and in 2003 (aged 51), she changed her name from "Kiran" to "Kirron" based on numerological records, and became known as 'Kirron Kher.'

Kirron has one brother and two sisters. In 2003, her brother, artist Amardeep Singh Sandhu, died. Kanwal Thakar Kaur, one of her sister's, is an Arjuna award-winning badminton player. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhu, a former Indian Navy senior officer, is the wife of a deceased senior officer.

Kirron completed her school education in Chandigarh and then graduated from Panjab University, Chandigarh, where he went to school.

Personal life

In the first week of March 1979, Kirron married Gautam Berry, a Mumbai-based businessman, and had Sikandar Kher's son.

Kiran attempted to establish a foothold in Mumbai through the 1980s, but no success was achieved. Kirron revived her acquaintance with Anupam Kher, who was also a struggling actor and whom she had seen briefly at university in Chandigarh. They appeared in a play called Chandpuri Ki Champabai, and were linked in the same theatre company. Kirron divorced her first husband in 1985 after Anupam had a break in film with Saaransh.

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Career

Kirron Kher made her film debut in 1983 in the Punjabi feature film Aasra Pyar Da, After this, she took a hiatus from films until 1996. Between 1983 and 1996, she appeared in one film, Pestonjee (1987), in which she acted in a small role alongside her second husband Anupam Kher.

Her return to acting came in the mid-1990s, through theatre, with the play Saalgirah written by playwright Javed Siddiqui and directed by Feroz Abbas Khan. She then hosted three television shows, starting with the short-lived Purushkshetra on Zee TV which got attention for bringing out the discussion of alternative sexuality for the first time, while also highlighting women's issues. Kiron Kher Today and Jagte Raho with Kiron Kher, before doing Hindi films.

Her comeback film was by Shyam Benegal, Sardari Begum (1996), which won her the Special Jury Award at the 1997 National Film Awards.

She then appeared in film director Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film Bariwali (1999), to critical acclaim. When she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the film, a controversy arose as a Bangla film actress, Rita Koiral, claimed that she had dubbed for the character of Kirron, making her an equal claimant to the award. Kirron refuted the charges claiming she spent hours rehearsing for her dialogue delivery, and the award was eventually not shared.

In 2002, Kirron appeared in Devdas (2002), alongside Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai, and was nominated for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.

In Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) (2003), a film that portrays the plight of a woman abducted during partition of India, her character not only refused to kill herself as suggested by her family, but marries her abductor and, after his death, makes an earning teaching Quran to local children. It shows how her life changes dramatically when her son takes up Islamic extremism in 1979 during the rule of Zia-ul-Haq and his process of Islamization of Pakistan. She won the Best Actress Award, at Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, the Karachi International Film Festival, Karachi, and International Festivals at Ciepie in Argentina, and Cape Town in South Africa while the film won the Best Film – Golden Leopard, Festival Grand Prize at Locarno.

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) 2004 paid tribute to Kirron during its annual festival.

In October 2004 Kirron made a guest appearance, along with her husband, in the American TV series ER playing Parminder Nagra's mother, Mrs. Rasgotra, in episode "Damaged."

In 2005, she played the role of Sunanda in the tele-serial Prratima on Sahara One channel, before which she had appeared in TV series like Dil Na Jaane Kyon (Zee TV), Isi Bahane, and Chausath Panne.

Despite playing mostly supporting roles, her successful movies include Main Hoon Na (2004), Hum Tum (2004), Veer-Zaara (2004), and Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005), where her performance drew rave reviews. Her work in Rang De Basanti (2006) was a huge hit and her performance got her second nomination for the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. Her role in Fanaa (2006) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) also received appreciation. Adding to her list of comical roles in 2008 she appeared in Singh Is Kinng, Saas bahu aur Sensex and Dostana. In 2009, she appeared as judge on India's Got Talent, the Indian franchise of the Got Talent series.

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Awards

• 1996: National Film Award – Special Jury Award: Sardari Begum
• 1999: National Film Award for Best Actress: Bariwali
• 2003: IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award: Devdas
• 2003: Locarno International Film Festival: Best Actress : Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters)
• 2003:5th Lux Style Awards: Lux Style Award for Best Film Actress for Khamosh Pani
• 2003: Karachi International Film Festival: Best Female Actor in a Leading Role: Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters)
• 2006: Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress: Rang De Basanti
• 2010: Apsara Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Kurbaan
• 2015: PTC Punjabi Film Awards: for Critics Award Best Actress: Punjab 1984