Kayadu Lohar (born 11 April 2000) is an Indian movie actress and model who predominantly appears in Malayalam and Tamil films. She made her acting debut with the Kannada film Mugilpete (2021). Kayadu had her breakthrough with the Tamil film Dragon (2025). She has since earned commercial success with Idhayam Murali (2026) and I'm Game (2026).
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Early life
Kayadu Lohar hails from Tezpur, Assam, and has been living in Pune, Maharashtra. She is the daughter of Mohanlal Lohar and Sunita. She was educated at St. Francis De Sales School in Pune. Later, she studied at Don Bosco College in Pune and then did her Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Career
Lohar started her career with a jewellery pageant contest and later won the Times of India's Everyuth Fresh Face Season 12. Lohar made her acting debut in the 2021 Kannada film Mugilpete when she was participating in Times Fresh Face Competition. Her first Malayalam film Pathonpatham Noottandu was released in September 2022, Alluri, her first Telugu film in 2022, I Prem U, her first Marathi film in 2023.
Lohar had her career breakthrough in 2025 with her Tamil debut, Dragon where she played a businessman's daughter opposite Pradeep Ranganathan. Her performance earned her recognition. Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express stated, "Kayadu turn up a wonderful performance even if her character is relegated to being increasingly one-note." A commercial success, it emerged as the fourth higgest grossing Tamil film of the year.
Following the success of Dragon, Lohar had five films releases in 2026 including, Funky opposite Vishwak Sen, Pallichattambi opposite Tovino Thomas, Idhayam Murali opposite Atharvaa, I'm Game opposite Dulquer Salmaan, and Immortal opposite G. V. Prakash Kumar.
