Kunal Singh (actor, born 1955)

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Kunal Singh
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Kunal Singh
Born
Kunal Singh Yadav

1955 (age 68–69)
NationalityIndian
Occupations
  • Actor
  • producer
Years active1979–present
Spouse Arati Bhattacharya
Children
Parent
  • Buddhadev Singh (father)
HonoursRashtrakavi Dinkar Award (2012)
With Amitabh Bachchan During making of Gangotri.jpg
With Amitabh Bachchan

Kunal Singh Yadav is an Indian actor associated with Bhojpuri cinema. Also referred to as Amitabh Bachchan of Bhojpuri Cinema because of his dominance on Bhojpuri cinema and also as Jitendra of Bhojpuri cinema because of his remarkable resemblance with the bollywood actor Jitendra, Kunal, in his four-decade long career, has acted in more than 250 movies. [1] For his contributions to cinema, he was awarded the Rashtrakavi Dinkar Award in 2012 by Pranab Mukherjee. [2]

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Life

Kunal was born in a 1955 in a Yadav family. His father Buddhadev Singh was a senior Congress leader. [3] He has remarkable resemblance with the bollywood actor Jeetendra. In his childhood he was asked to read out from the script of a play named Jantantra Zindabad, for his bad performance in the auditon the director complemented that "acting is not his cup of tea". After this incident he decided to become an actor. He is married to Bengali actress Arati Bhattacharya. [3]

Yadav with Satyajit Ray and wife Arati Bhattacharya, on the day of his wedding With satyajit ray and wife arati bhattacharya.jpg
Yadav with Satyajit Ray and wife Arati Bhattacharya, on the day of his wedding

Acting career

Yadav and A.K.Hangal in Kal Hamara Hain With the late A.K Hangal in film KAL HAMARA HAI.jpg
Yadav and A.K.Hangal in Kal Hamara Hain

He made his acting debut with the Hindi film Kal Hamara Hai (1980) directed by Girish Ranjan. He played the role of a Tonga Drive in that film. It did a good business in the theatres of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. After this film he started getting many offers for Bhojpuri films. His first major success in Bhojpuri was Dharti Maiyaa (1981), in which he played the role of a wayward youth. His biggest hit Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon was released 1983. In a theatre of Varanasi it ran for 16 months. [1] His Ram Jaisan Bhaiyaa Hamar ran for 50 days in Kishanganj and broke the record held by Ram Teri Ganga Maili [3] In 2007, he acted with Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun Chakraborty in the Bhojpuri film Gangotri. [4] His first film in 2022 was Aashiqui starring Khesari Lal Yadav and Amrapali Dubey. [5]

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Film Hamar Dulha

Filmography

Bhojpuri

YearFilmRoleCo-starsDirectorNotes
1981Dharti Maiya Padma KhannaGauri KhuranaQamar Marvi
1983 Ganga Kinare Mora Gaon
Hamar Bhauji Jayshree T.
1985Bihari Babu Shatrughan Sinha Alpana Goswami Dilip Bose [3]
1986Dulha Ganga Paar keGauri KhuranaRajkumar Sharma [3]
Beti Udhaar ke
"Sohag Bindiya" Rajni Sharma
1988Dagabaz Balma Sahila Chadha,

Padma Khanna, Jayshree T.

Arati Bhattacharya
1989Hamaar DulhaAanchal

Seema Deo

Chhotu Purniyawala
2005 Dulha Milal Dildar
2022 Aashiqui Satish Dubey Khesari Lal Yadav

Amrapali Dubey

Parag Patil [5]
2023Aangan Ki Lakshmi Rani Chatterjee Rinku Ghosh Anil NainanFirst Look Out [6]
2024 Rang De Basanti Khesari Lal Yadav

Rati Pandey

Premanshu Singh [7]

Hindi

YearFilmRoleCo-starsDirectorNotes
1980Kal Hamara Hai Padma Khanna, Govardhan Asrani, Arati Bhattacharya, A. K. Hangal, Jayshree T. Girish Ranjan [3]
2023The Rise of Sudarshan Chakra Yashpal Sharma (actor),Milind Gunaji,Preeti Jhangiani,Rakesh Bedi,Junior Mehmood Anil Kulchainiya [8]

Political career

Yadav with Mr Shtrughan Sinha AT A BHOJPURI MAGAZINE LAUCH WITH MR. SHTRUGHAN SINHA.jpg
Yadav with Mr Shtrughan Sinha

He contested election in 2014 from Patna Sahib as a Congress Candidate against Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Shatrughan Sinha and lost the battle. [9] [10] [11] [12]

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with Ms Meeria

Awards

Awarded the RAMDHARI SINGH DINKAR AWARD by honorable President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in 2012 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. KUNAL SINGH 22.jpg
Awarded the RAMDHARI SINGH DINKAR AWARD by honorable President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in 2012 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.

For his contributions to cinema, he was awarded the Rashtrakavi Dinkar Award in 2012 by Pranab Mukherjee

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