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1 Early life and education  





2 Modeling and male pageantry  



2.1  Mr. Asia 2014  







3 Music career  





4 Acting career  



4.1  20172018: Film debut and recognition  





4.2  2018present: Breaking into the big screen  







5 Political activities  





6 Filmography  



6.1  Film (Cinema)  





6.2  Film  





6.3  Television series  







7 Discography  



7.1  Solo albums  







8 References  





9 External links  














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Khar Ra
ခါရာ
Born

Myo Htut Naing


(1993-10-21) 21 October 1993 (age 30)
Mogok, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Alma materDagon University
Occupations
  • Actor
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Years active2013–present
    Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
    Parent(s)Myint Oo (father)
    Nang Sein (mother)

    Khar Ra (Burmese: ခါရာ, also spelt Kharra; born Myo Htut Naing; 21 October 1993)[1] is a Burmese actor, model and singer of ethnic Shan-Chinese descent.[2] He gained popularity after starring in the 2018 film Dimensions which brought him wider recognition.[3][4]

    Early life and education[edit]

    Khar Ra was born on 21 October 1993 in Mogok, Myanmar to ethnic Shan-Chinese parent Myint Oo and his wife Nang Sein.[5] He is the eldest son of three siblings, having a younger sister and younger brother.[6] He attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Mogok and graduated from Dagon University with a degree in English.[4][7][8]

    Modeling and male pageantry[edit]

    Khar Ra began his modeling career in 2013, and then he competed in the male model contest The First Myanmar Guys 2013. He also appeared on magazine cover photos and as model for many advertisements.[9] He joined the second edition of Miss Golden Land Myanmar which was held on 21 August 201. At the end of the event, he won Mr. Asia Myanmar 2014 and represented Myanmar at the Mr. Asia Contest 2014.[4]

    In 2016, he was awarded Asia Model Star Award by Korea Model Association.[4]

    Mr. Asia 2014[edit]

    Khar Ra competed in the 2014 Mr. Asia Contest, along with participants from 50 other nations which was held on 27 August to 27 September in Hong Kong. He placed as the 2nd runner-up and won four continental title awards for Mister Viewer's Choice Award, Mister Gorgeous, Mister Charismatic, and Missosology Top Favourite Award.[10][11]

    Music career[edit]

    Khar Ra is also a singer. He started singing in 2015, and released his debut album "Ka Lane Ka Kyait" (Deceit) which was a duet album with his partner Nora Ko on 14 February 2016.[12]

    Acting career[edit]

    2017–2018: Film debut and recognition[edit]

    Rising to fame in 2017, he became an actor. He made his acting debut with a leading role in the film The Accident alongside Thinzar Nwe Win in 2017. He then starred in his second film Bella and Me where he played the leading role with Alice Ong and also starred in his third film Unstoppable in 2017. The films was both a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for Khar Ra.[4]

    2018–present: Breaking into the big screen[edit]

    Khar Ra took on his first big-screen leading role in the action-thriller film Dimensions alongside Alice Ong, directed by Nyan Htin which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 9 February 2018 and was also screened in Singapore.[13]

    In the same year, he starred in the big-screen film Poisoned Savages where he played the leading role with actor Naing Naing and Tun Ko Ko, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 30 November 2018.[14] He then portrayed the male lead in the big-screen film City Hunters, an action film alongside actress Pyae Wade Maung which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 1 March 2019.[15][16]

    In 2018, he portrayed his role as Ye Naung in the popular television series It was on Yesterday 2, alongside Kyaw Kyaw Bo, Tyron Bejay, Aung Min Khant and Aye Myat Thu, which aired on MRTV-4 in September 2018.[17]

    In April 2019, he won Rising Star Award (Male) in Star Awards where he also won Fashion Star Award (Male). On October 23, 2020, the Korean Embassy in Myanmar made an official announcement about him regarding the appointment of an honorary ambassador to promote Korean culture.[18][19]

    Political activities[edit]

    Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Khar Ra was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, he has taken part in protests since February. He joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[20]

    On 5 April 2021, warrants for his arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the Myanmar Penal Code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, he was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.[21][22]

    Filmography[edit]

    Film (Cinema)[edit]

    Film[edit]

    Television series[edit]

    Discography[edit]

    Solo albums[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ ဇွဲဉာဏ် (26 October 2017). "ချစ်သူပေးတဲ့ မွေးနေ့လက်ဆောင်ကြောင့် ရှော့ခ်ဖြစ်သွားတဲ့ ခါရာ". 7 Day Daily.
  • ^ Min Phyo, Nay (16 July 2018). "အပြင်မှာဖြစ်ပျက်နေသည့် အတိုင်း အချစ်ဇာတ်ကား ရိုက်ကူးရန် ခါရာ ပြင်ဆင်နေ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese).
  • ^ "မြန်မာ့အက်ရှင် ရုပ်ရှင်လောကကို ပြန်လည် အသက်သွင်းနိုင်ခဲ့သူ သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 12 March 2019.
  • ^ a b c d e "ခါရာနဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 16 November 2016.
  • ^ "ကိုယ့်ရုပ်ကိုယ် ပြန်မကြည့်ချင်တဲ့ အချိန်တွေ ရှိခဲ့တဲ့ ခါရာ". Duwun (in Burmese). Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  • ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင်ခါရာရဲ့ဇာတိ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). 7 August 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  • ^ "မြန်မာပြည်ရဲ့ နာမည်အကြီးဆုံး ၅ ယောက်ထဲမှာ ပါချင်တဲ့ ခါရာ". Mizzima (in Burmese). 31 March 2017.
  • ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင် မော်ဒယ် ခါရာရဲ့ ငယ်ဘဝဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 8 February 2018.
  • ^ ကြူကြူဟန် (7 August 2014). "Mr.Asia တွင် ယှဉ်ပြိုင်မည့် Kharra". 7 Day Daily.
  • ^ Thu, Han (30 October 2014). "'အကယ်၍ ဆုမရခဲ့ရင် ကျွန်တော် ရူးသွားနိုင်တယ်'". 7Day News (in Burmese).
  • ^ "亞生:緬甸鐵漢唔怕紋身影響出賽". on.cc東網 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  • ^ Mon Kyaw, Yu (7 February 2016). "မစ္စတာခါရာရဲ့ "ကလိမ်ကကျစ်"". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  • ^ Phyu Han, Yu (31 July 2018). ""အောင်မြင်မှုတခု ရဖို့အတွက် အချိန်တခုက အရမ်းအရေးကြီးတယ်"ဆိုတဲ့ ခါရာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  • ^ Poe, Chit (27 November 2018). "ဇာတ်ကားရိုက်တုန်းက မင်းသား နိုင်းနိုင်းအနား မကပ်ရဲခဲ့တဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  • ^ ""ခက်ခက်ခဲခဲ အရဲစွန့် ကြိုးစားခဲ့ကြတာပါ"- မြို့ပြမုဆိုး မင်းသား ခါရာ". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 28 February 2019.
  • ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်မကြည့်တာ ၃ နှစ်၊ ၅ နှစ်ရှိပြီ ဆိုတဲ့လူတွေအများကြီး ရုံထဲပြန်ပြီး ၀င်လာစေချင်တယ် – ခါရာ (မြို့ပြမုဆိုး)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 4 March 2019.
  • ^ April, Wint (25 September 2018). "ကြိုးကြိုးစားစားဆော့ထားတဲ့ အမိုက်စားဘော်ဒီကို ပရိသတ်တွေရှေ့ထုတ်ပြလိုက်တဲ့ ခါရာ". ShweMon (in Burmese).
  • ^ "ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် ကိုရီးယားယဥ်ကျေးမှု မြှင့်တင်ရေး ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင် သံတမန် ခန့်အပ်ပွဲ ကျင်းပ 상세보기|သံအမတ်ကြီး လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်များပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်ဆိုင်ရာ တောင်ကိုရီးယားသမ္မတနိုင်ငံသံရုံး". overseas.mofa.go.kr. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  • ^ MMRD (25 October 2020). "ကိုရီးယား၏ ယဥ်ကျေးမှု မြှင့်တင်ရေး ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင် သံတမန်အဖြစ် သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာမှ ခန့်အပ်ခြင်းခံရ | Yangon Directory | Myanmar Business Directory | Advertise in Yangon - Yangon Directory | Yangon Yellow Pages". www.yangondirectory.com. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  • ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
  • ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ၊ အဆိုတော် သားငယ်နှင့် ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 5 April 2021.
  • ^ "အမှန်တရားဘက်မှာ ရပ်တည်ခဲ့တဲ့အတွက် ဂုဏ်ယူမဆုံးဖြစ်ကြောင်း မြတ်နိုးအေး ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 6 April 2021.
  • ^ မြတ်မိုးပွင့် (28 February 2017). "အက်ရှင် ဇာတ်ကားရိုက်ကူးရတာ ပိုးအားသာတယ် ခါရာ". Popular News Journal.
  • ^ "Movie Time: Screening from November 30 to December 6". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  • ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from March 1 to 7". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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