
In the same year, he appeared in a low-budget film Jatta in which played the role of a forest guard. His other roles include a no non-sense cop in Duniya, a Kabaddi coach in Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu and a forest brigand Veerappan in the 2013 film Attahasa. The film was a major success at the box office. The film was dropped, but he got a chance to act in Polladhavan. He was approached by director Vetrimaaran to work in Desiya Nedunchalai, as he was looking for an actor who could speak Tamil with a Kannada accent. He played a tough elder brother of heroines in Akash and Kallarali Hoovagi.

For his role in the film Raakshasa, he won the Karnataka State Award for Best Supporting Actor. He got a role in the film after having been identified initially to design costumes for the film and eventually went on to win a State award for his role in it.

Kishore made his film debut in the 2004 Kannada film Kanti, acting as Byaadara Beera. During this time, he worked as a salesman for newspapers Deccan Herald and Prajavani. He is married to his college sweetheart Vishalakshi. He took up teaching in a college in Bangalore where he worked for two years and then as an assistant to fashion designer Vidyasagar, a professor from National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT). He then did his master's degree in Kannada literature from Bangalore University.

This was where he started off with theatre doing plays in Kannada such as Teregalu and Samrata Ashoka. Kishore completed a major part of his schooling in Kunigal, Karnataka, and college education in National College, Bangalore. His father was a professor and mother, a homemaker. Kishore was born on 14 August 1974 in Channapatna, a town in the southern part of India's Karnataka State.
