Posted by: gagamilfuuc May 31, 2011
Yesteryear actor Raj Kiran located at mental hospital in Atlanta
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Raj Kiran Actor Raj Kiran, best remembered for his roles in films like Arth and Karz, has been missing in action for over a decade now and was even rumoured to be dead. However, the actor has now been located at a mental asylum in USA and it was none other than Raj Kiran's Karz co-star Rishi Kapoor who came to know about his whereabouts.

After rumours of his death started coming, his friends and colleagues started to locate him. His Hip Hip Hurray co-star Deepti Naval posted on Raj Kiran's Facebook Fan page "Raj, where are you my friend? Please reach out - Deepti (Naval)".

Rishi Kapoor, who recently went to U.S.A, was successful in tracing the whereabouts of his Karz co-star. Rishi was shocked to know that Raj is living in a mental asylum in Atlanta and pays for his own treatment by working within the institution.

Raj's wife and son abandoned him sometime back and the rest of his family also didn't bother to take care of him and left him to fend for himself. After going through a series of domestic crisis, he went into depression. He was then admitted in a mental institution at Byculla, Mumbai and was later on taken to the US by his brothers.

Remembering Raj, filmmaker Subhash Ghai says, "I always feel sad about Raj Kiran. He was a thorough gentleman as a new comer in Karz. But I guess after Karz he got too much of media hype and didn't get the success he expected. It made him disturbed apart from his personal life problems. I don't know thereafter

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