Uday Kiran

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Uday Kiran (26 June 1980 – 6 January 2014) was an Indian film actor, who primarily worked in the Telugu cinema. His first three films, Chitram, Nuvvu Nenu and Manasantha Nuvve, were successful hits, earning him the title "Hat-trick Hero".^[1][2][3]

In 2001, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu^[4] for the film Nuvvu Nenu, and became the youngest winner of the Filmfare best actor award after Kamal Haasan. In 2006, He made his Tamil debut with the film Poi, directed by veteran K. Balachander. ^[5] Subsequently, he starred in romantic films including Nee Sneham and Kalusukovalani. His other performances have been in the films Sreeram, Avunanna Kaadanna, Nuvvekaddunte Nenakkadunta and Jai Sriram.^[6][7][8][9]

Uday Kiran was born on 26 June 1980 to Telugu speaking Vaidika Brahmins, VVK Murthy and Nirmala. His elder sister is Sridevi. He graduated in commerce from Wesley College, Secunderabad.^[10]

He started modeling. Kiran was engaged to Chiranjeevi's daughter Sushmitha in 2003^[11] but the engagement was subsequently broken due to reasons best known to the parties involved.^[12][13]

He married Vishitha on October 24, 2012.^[14]

Kiran made his Tollywood debut under his mentor, cinematographer turned film director Teja in the year 2000 with the film Chitram, in which he played the lead character of a 17 year old. The film went on to become a trend setter.^[15]

This film, followed by two others, Nuvvu Nenu and Manasantha Nuvve, made him among the very few actors in Telugu cinema to deliver three consecutive successful films. His performance as a hot-blooded youngster in Nuvvu Nenu won him the Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu) in the year 2001.

In his fourth film, Kalusukovalani, he displayed dancing skills in the songs, "Udayinchina" and "Cheliya Cheliya". In his fifth film, Sreeram he ventured into an action oriented story of a youngster aspiring to become a top cop.

In 2005, he ventured into Tamil with the film Poi directed by K.Balachander. He then did two more films, Vambu Sandai and Pen Singam in Tamil, the latter being the story penned by M. Karunanidhi, which did moderately well at the box office.

Kiran committed suicide on 6 January 2014.^[16][17] He reportedly hung himself from the ceiling inside his flat in the Srinagar colony at Punjagutta, Hyderabad on a Sunday night.^[18]

It is reported Kiran’s wife Vishita and neighbors rushed him to Apollo Hospital at Jubilee Hills after finding his body hanging to the ceiling in a room late on Sunday night. Doctors at the hospital declared him dead upon arrival.

The actor is alone in his flat when he died. His wife had gone to Manikonda on some personal work. She grew suspicious as Kiran was not responding to her mobile phone calls, and rushed home only to find him dead.

His last message to his wife was "I love you", it seems there is no trouble with his wife but Uday Kiran distanced himself from his father since 6 years after Uday Kiran's mother died.^[19]

• Filmfare South Best Actor Award (Telugu) - Nuvvu Nenu (2001)

Telugu actor Uday Kiran “ends life”yahootrends.com. 2014-01-06.

• Uday Kiran at IMDb

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