Kiran Rathod is a well known South Indian film actress. She acted in well over 50 successful South Indian movies including Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam movies.

Kiran Rathod was born on 4 th January, 1981 in Jaipur. She belongs to the royal family Rajput Rajastan.

She graduated from the prestigious College Mithibhai, Mumbai and soon began working in a music video is the first step to his film career.

She is also the cousin of Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon.

Kiran Rathod is also a dress designer. She designed her own costumes for the film ‘Andaroo Dongale Dorikithey’ .


She first started appearing in Hindi pop song albums in late 1990s when she caught the attention of Hindi movie producers and she made her first film appearance was as 'Monishka' - Hrithik Roshan's spoilt and wealthy fiancee in the film Yaadein.The film was a major box office flop.


After that she could not get any major offers as she was growing plump.

After a few sporadic appearances in minor films, she moved down South. Her first movie in Tamil is Gemini opposite Vikram. She shot to limelight with the hit after 'Gemini'.


After that she did quite a number of movies in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam and became a familiar face in South Indian films pairing with top heroes like Madhavan, Kamal Haasan and Sharath Kumar.


She is noted for her cameo role in the movie "New", with Simran and S.J Suryah.

Her notable movies are: Gemini with Vikram, Anbe Sivam with Kamal Hassan, Villain with Ajith Kumar, Winner with Prashanth, and Diwan with Sarath Kumar.

She also appeared in some Telugu films and acted as item number in few of her movies. Recently she acted in an Indian version of Malena, High School which has created a lot of controversies. 

Kiran made a reappear in Bollywood with Karan Razdan's movie 'Souten' in 2005.

Famous for her hot dance sequences, she now says she is game for performance-based roles, not for sleazy strip-tease characters.Kiran Rathod has "Sex Bomb" image of the industry.


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NameKiran Rathod
Date of Birth4 th January, 1981
Birth place Jaipur
Debut movieYaadein
Languages work Hindi, Telugu, Tamil
FamilyCousin of Ravina Tandon