Biography

Kiran Rathod is an Indian film actress who acted in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Kanada films.

Kiran Rathod was born on 11th January 1981 in Jaipur, India. Rathod is the daughter of Mohan Singh Rathod & Anita Rathod. She is the cousin of Bollywood villain Amjad Khan and Raveena Tandon. Rathod belongs to the respectable Rajput family of Rajasthan. Rathod went to Mithibai College in Mumbai, India. During her teen years, she contributed to various Hindi pop music recordings.

She made her debut as Monishka Rai in the Hindi movie Yaadein in 2001. However, the movie got a major flop.

Her first breakthrough came in 2002 with the Tamil movie Gemini opposite Vikram (actor).

The movie was followed by Villain along with Ajith Kumar & Meena. It was also a box office success. In the same year, she made her appearance again in a Hindi movie Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani.

That year, she made her debut in Malaya movie performing in Thandavam. She then performed in various successful Tamil movie such as Diwan, Arasu, Winner, Thennavan, New. In the year 2004, Rathod appeared in a couple of Telegu movies Naani & Andaru Dongale Dorikithe. She then went to perform in various language movies like Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.

She made a comeback in 2009 in the film Naalai Namadhe portraying the role of a prostitute, Sarasu , however the film went largely unnoticed. Despite this She continued to appear in several successful films such as Jaggubhai, Kevvu Keka, Saguni and recently was seen portraying the role of Vishal Krishna's Aunt in Aambala.

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