Shahrukh-Akshay bigger star, superstar made in 15, life was destroyed in 26

The 90s brought many major changes for Hindi cinema. If new new stories came, new experiments were being done. Many young actors were also given a chance in films. One such artist had an entry, whose age was only 15 years. He also achieved a lot of fame. On seeing this, he started competing with big superstars. But life took such a turn that the stardom found overnight disappeared. Let’s introduce this hero.

This is none other than Harish Kumar who started his career as a child artist. He also worked in Telugu films, while he did a lot of films in Hindi as well as Kannada cinema. He worked for about 8 years. Then in 1988, he returned to the screen as a hero. You will be surprised to know that then Harish’s age was only 13 years. Harish even romanced herself with heroines in his career. Like in the tricolor, he was opposite Mamta Kulkarni, while he is four years younger than Mamta in real life.

Harish Kumar’s success

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Harish Kumar’s early films were flops but he got success from Tamil’s successful film Prem prisoner. Later, a remake was also made in Hindi and it was also a super hit. Karisma Kapoor made her debut with this film with Harish Kumar. Then both of them were around 16 years old. Then Harish also gave hit films like the tricolor and college bullodu.

Harish Kumar’s career
At that time Harish Kumar became the most young and popular star in Telugu and Hindi cinema. Then he used to get a good rating from Shah Rukh Khan to Akshay Kumar. But slowly, he started playing second lead. He worked as a second lead with several stars including Nana Patekar, Govinda, A Nageshwar Rao, Chiranjeevi and Nandamuri Balakrishna. Such as The Gentlemen, Coolie Number and Hero No. 1.

Harish Kumar had shocked everyone
In the year 2001, after the Hindi film Intakam, Harish Kumar said goodbye to the films. Then he was only 26 years old. Everyone was shocked to hear this. He never gave the reason for this, but various types of gossips started running in the industry.

In a conversation with ‘HT’ in the year 2021, Harish Kumar reacted for retirement from films. He told how an accident destroyed his career and he got away from films. He had told, ‘There was a dangerous injury in my waist. The situation was that I came to bed. This accident led to quitting showbiz. My disk was slipped. L3 and L5 were messed up. The condition was that I could not even go to the washroom. I did not even know when I got hurt. I was very careless. Gradually, the pain started increasing and the condition became such that I grabbed the bed.

Actor on two years bedrest
Harish Kumar had told that after treatment he was in bed for several months. The doctors also refused to work. This incident forced him to be lost. After this accident, he made a comeback. He appeared in films like Naughty@40 and four days Chandni in the year 2011-2012 but could not get success at the box office. His last film was a hero in the year 2018. In the year 2025, he also made an OTT debut with home Lakshmi. Now he stays away from the limelight. Sometimes Chennai, sometimes Hyderabad and sometimes live in Mumbai.