---
name: "Kiran Rao"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kiran-rao"
fi1m_id: "kiran-rao"
imdb_id: "nm1444479"
tmdb_id: 130959
wikidata_id: "Q6414821"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "7 November 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-23T20:55:41.313699+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kiran Rao

## Identity

Kiran Rao

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kiran-rao
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kiran-rao
- **IMDb ID:** nm1444479
- **TMDB ID:** 130959
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6414821
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Rao, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6414821, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1444479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130959

Producer and director. Born 7 November 1973 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 7 November 1973, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- **Active:** 2001–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 producing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (1), 2010s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Rao, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6414821, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1444479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130959

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Dangal*](https://film.one/film/dangal.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kiran Rao is an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter who works primarily in Hindi cinema. She was born on 7 November 1973 in Bengaluru and studied economics at Sophia College for Women in Mumbai before completing a master's degree in mass communication at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.

Rao began her career as an assistant director on films including *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), *Lagaan* (2001) and *Swades* (2004). As a producer she has worked on *Delhi Belly* (2011), *Dangal* (2016), *Secret Superstar* (2017) and *Laal Singh Chaddha* (2022). She directed and wrote *Dhobi Ghat* (2011) and directed *Laapataa Ladies* (2024). She is also credited as director and writer on the anthology film *Lust Stories 3* (2026). In 2016 she co-founded the non-profit Paani Foundation.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Dangal* (2016), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/dangal.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), Fi1m 80, Second Second Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/monsoon-wedding.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lust Stories 3* (2026), Director, Writer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/lust-stories-3.md)
- *The Wolf* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Humans in the Loop* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Sitaare Zameen Par* (2025), Producer
- *Lost Ladies* (2024), Director, Producer
- *Stolen* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Laal Singh Chaddha* (2022), Producer
- *Secret Superstar* (2017), Producer
- *Dangal* (2016), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/dangal.md)
- *Ship of Theseus* (2012), Producer
- *Delhi Belly* (2011), Producer
- *Peepli Live* (2010), Producer
- *Dhobi Ghat* (2010), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na* (2008), Associate Producer
- *Like Stars on Earth* (2007), Associate Producer
- *Swades* (2004), First Assistant Director
- *Saathiya* (2002), First Assistant Director
- *Monsoon Wedding* (2001), Second Second Assistant Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/monsoon-wedding.md)
- *Dil Chahta Hai* (2001), as Deepa's Friend (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Kiran Rao](https://film.one/media/person/94351/gallery-d9a7bb747e81.jpg) Kiran Rao — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Kiran_Rao_on_Day_3_of_Lakme_Fashion_Week_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kiran Rao](https://film.one/media/person/94351/gallery-0cd58a04c7a5.jpg) Kiran Rao — Image via TMDB

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