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This 80s Star Worked With Legends
This 80s Star Worked With Legends, Landed In Jail And Then Vanished Without A Trace For 20 Years
There was a time when his face felt familiar in living rooms across India, the kind of actor you didn’t always notice immediately, but somehow remembered long after the film ended. Today, the story of Raj Kiran lingers in a very different way… not through his performances, but through a mystery that has remained unsolved for over two decades.
Raj Kiran, best known for his work in films like Karz and Arth, built a steady presence in Hindi cinema through the late 1970s and 1980s. He made his debut with Kaagaz Ki Nao in 1975 and was soon seen in Kissa Kursi Ka, a political satire that was banned during the Emergency. His role in Subhash Ghai’s Karz, alongside Rishi Kapoor, brought him wider recognition, even in a supporting part. A couple of years later, he delivered another memorable performance in Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth, where he played a man willing to stand by the woman he loved, even without reciprocation.
Through the 1980s, Raj appeared in several films and gradually established himself as a dependable actor. But by the early 1990s, his career began to shift, with more supporting roles coming his way. Around the mid-1990s, he stepped away from films for a period, and it was during this phase that his life appeared to take a difficult turn.
In 1996, a report placed him in Bengaluru Central Jail, where he had reportedly spent nearly a month after attempting to enter the Puttaparthi Sai Baba Ashram without permission. According to Deccan Herald, he had hired a tractor and a ladder in an effort to access the premises at night. The incident came as a surprise, even to his family, who were reportedly unaware of his situation until it was reported. He was later released on bail secured by his father.
Speaking about the experience in a 1997 interview with Cineblitz, Raj said the episode had been “blown out of proportion." He recalled, “The trauma that I faced when I was put in jail, is indescribable. You can never understand the fear one feels, when you are told that you cannot be bailed out. I spent 34 days in jail and sitting there, I was not sure if I would ever be free. That is a very scary feeling," he said.
Not long after, he was seen back at his Mumbai residence, and there were reports that he had spent some time in the United States with his brother Govind and was planning to return. However, accounts from those who met him during this period suggest he may have been going through personal challenges. These descriptions are based on statements from family members and filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and do not constitute a clinical diagnosis.
In a 2011 interaction with Rediff, Mahesh Bhatt shared his memory of meeting Raj at a mental health facility in Mumbai. “many years ago when he was in the psychiatric ward of Masina Hospital. He was not the Raj Kiran I had interacted with. This was a sombre-looking, depressed individual and with great difficulty he communicated with me. There was no joie de vivre, no energy that he exuded every time he met us; his friends, that is." Bhatt added that after his recovery, Raj had reached out for work. “We tried to give him some work, a role here and there but once the word gets around that you are mentally unstable, nobody wants to touch you with a barge pole," he said.
At some point after this, Raj moved to the United States and stayed with his brother. For a while, he remained in touch with his family. But then, one day, he disappeared. His daughter, Rishika, later clarified in an interview with Mid-Day that reports suggesting he was in a mental health facility in Atlanta were incorrect. “He is not in Atlanta. We have been looking for him for over eight years. We have involved the New York police and hired private detectives to find him. But he’s not been found," she said.
She also shared that he was last seen in New York and described his disappearance as deeply uncharacteristic. “He was the most loving father. Yes, he suffered from a bit of mental illness before he disappeared. We wanted to deal with this on our own, but those false reports forced me to come out in the open. I think this is totally unfair on my mother."
Interestingly, Rishi Kapoor had earlier mentioned, in a conversation with Subhash K Jha, that he had been told by Raj’s brother that the actor was in a facility in Atlanta. “I was so relieved when Govind told me Raj was alive. But he was confined to an institution in Atlanta due to health problems." He also added that Raj was said to be managing his own treatment by working there and that he was not facing financial difficulties due to prior investments.
Actor Deepti Naval, who worked with him in Hip Hip Hurray, also made a public appeal in 2011, urging people to help locate him after hearing that he may have been driving a taxi in New York.
Despite multiple efforts — from family members, colleagues, and even authorities — there has been no confirmed trace of Raj Kiran since the early 2000s. By his daughter’s account, the last time she saw him was in 2003. More than 20 years later, the question remains unanswered, turning the story of a once-familiar face into one of Bollywood’s most enduring mysteries.
Source: News18
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