Krishan Kumar Dua is an Indian actor and producer. He is best known for '' Bewafa Sanam'' (1995) and owning the largest music producing company in India, T-Series.

Personal life

He was born Krishan Kumar Dua in a

Punjabi Hindu Punjabi Hindus are adherents of Hinduism who identify ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis and are natives of the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. Punjabi Hindus are the third-largest religious g ...

family, the son of fruit seller Chandrabhan who had migrated to Delhi from

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

after the

partition of India The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Dominion of India, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Paki ...

. He is the younger brother of

Gulshan Kumar Gulshan Kumar Dua (5 May 1951 12 August 1997), was an Indian film and music producer and businessman who was the founder of the Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited music label in the Bollywood industry. After founding T-Series in 1983, ...

, founder of

Super Cassettes Industries Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, doing business as T-Series, is an Indian music record label and film production company founded by Gulshan Kumar on 11 July 1983. It is primarily known for Hindi film soundtracks and Indi-pop music. ...

/T-Series. Kumar married actress

Tanya Singh Tanya Singh is a former Bollywood actress known for her work in ''Aaja Meri Jaan ''Aaja Meri Jaan'' () is a 1993 Hindi-language romantic thriller film, written by Pawan Sethi and directed by Ketan Anand. It stars Krishan Kumar, Tanya Si ...

, the daughter of composer of Ajit Singh and sister of actress

Nattasha Singh Nattasha Singh is an Indian actress who started her career as a child, in the sitcom serial ''Dekh Bhai Dekh''. She played Kirti, the bubbly talkative emotional daughter of Navin Nischol and Farida Jalal. Following a four-year hiatus from actin ...

. Their only daughter, Tishaa Kumar, died on 18 July 2024 at the age of 21, after a prolonged battle with cancer.

Filmography

As actor

As producer

References

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