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Kira Narayanan | |
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Kira Narayanan is an Indian Actress and TV Presenter. She is best known for playing Aayat in "Jee Karda" on Amazon Prime Video, hosting Cricket Live on the Star Sports Network and for playing the role of Princess Jasmine in Disney and BookMyShow's Aladdin the Musical in India. [1]
Kira grew up in Malaysia and started acting when she was 13. She was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (London).
Kira debuted as an English Television Sports Anchor for Star Sports India during Vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 7 (2019). She then went on to anchor for "Cricket Live" in the absence of Mayanti Langer, hosting her first Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2020, as well as the India/England Test, ODI and T20I Series in 2021. She's appeared alongside cricket greats and network regulars Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Brett Lee, VVS Laxman, Gautham Gambhir, Greame Swann, Lisa Sthalekhar, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh and Dean Jones. [2] [3] [4]
Kira was cast by Tess Joseph [5] to play Princess Jasmine [6] in the stage Musical version of the Disney film Aladdin, produced by Disney International and BookMyShow. [7] [8] [9] [10]
In 2019, Kira stepped into the iconic shoes of Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews to play the role of Eliza Doolittle in Rael Padamsee's My Fair Lady the Musical. [11] [12] [13]
Kira plays Aayat Merchant in "Jee Karda" on Amazon Prime Video starring Tamannah Bhatia, and in the 2019 web series Minus One, [14] she appeared as Devika/Lavanya opposite Indian web stars Aisha Ahmed and Ayush Mehra.
Kira made her feature film debut as Sri Devi (a classical dancer) in the 2018 Tamil Picture Koothan, where she starred alongside Kollywood greats Urvashi, Bhagyaraj and Manobala. [15]
| Year | Channel | Sport | Show | Role | Notes |
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| 2019 | Star Sports | Kabaddi | KBD Live/Total KBD Raid On | Anchor | English Anchor for live/recorded Vivo Pro Kabaddi programming |
| 2019 | Star Sports | Cricket | Cricket Live/Match Point/Follow The Blues | Reporter/Anchor | English Reporter/Anchor for Cricket Programming |
| 2020 | Star Sports | Cricket | Cricket Live | Anchor | English Anchor for Dream 11 IPL 2020 |
| 2021 | Star Sports | Cricket | Cricket Live | Anchor | English Anchor for India/England 2021 (Test/T20I/ODI) |
| Year | Show | Role | Director | Producer | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2018 | Aladdin the Musical (India) | Princess Jasmine | Shruti Sharma | BookMyShow/Disney India | Played in Mumbai (NCPA) & Delhi (JLN Stadium) | [1] [6] [7] [5] [8] [9] [10] [16] [17] |
| 2019 | My Fair Lady | Eliza Doolittle | Karla Singh | ACE Productions | NCPA (Mumbai) | [12] [11] [13] |
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2018 | Koothan | Sri Devi | Tamil | [15] |
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2023 | Jee Karda | Aayat Merchant | Hindi | ||
| 2019 | Minus One | Devika/Lavanya | Hindi | [14] |
Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 31st Disney animated feature film and the fourth produced during the Disney Renaissance, it is based on the Arabic folktale of the same name from the One Thousand and One Nights. The film was produced and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements from a screenplay they co-wrote with the writing team of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Featuring the voices of Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, and Jonathan Freeman, the film follows the titular Aladdin, an Arabian street urchin, who finds a magic lamp containing a genie. With the genie's help, Aladdin disguises himself as a wealthy prince and tries to impress the Sultan in order to win the heart of his free-spirited daughter, Princess Jasmine, as the Sultan's evil vizier Jafar plots to steal the magic lamp for his own uses.
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