Kumarason Chinnadurai (born 10 August 1968, in Singapore), popularly known as Kumar, is a Singaporean Indian comedian and television host, actor, and drag queen.

[2][3] Kumar was born on 10 August 1968 to a South Indian Mudaliar emigrant father from Madras and a Singaporean mother.

[4] His father, Chinna Dorai, arrived in Singapore in the mid-1960s and worked as a caretaker for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).

When Kumar was four, his parents divorced; he was raised by his mother's younger sister, Rani Vyarakannoo, a policewoman, who eventually became his step-mother.

According to Kumar, his father became an alcoholic after his mother left and he became abusive to his children because "the only thing that reminded him of the failed marriage were the kids".

[5] Kumar grew up in a terrace house on Paterson Road with his parents, three siblings – three older sisters, and six dogs.

As a child, he aspired to be a classical Bharathanatyam dancer and joined the Indian Dance Society in his secondary school.

After his O-Level, Kumar worked for six months as a cashier at a convenience store before enlisting for National Service, where he served as a combat signaler in the army and held a record for one of the fastest times in his cohort for the completion of the 2.4 km run.

In 1991, Kumar landed a gig at the now defunct Laughs Comedy Club in Tanglin Shopping Centre playing the role of an Indian drag queen.

He wrote most of his own material and had initially started with clean jokes which proved unpopular, drawing chilly responses from his audience; that led him to go with more risqué ones for which he is now known.

Since then, Kumar has appeared in various English television programs such as My Sassy Neighbour and Front; he also hosted three seasons of Rusiyo Rusi, a travelogue cooking show, and played the titular character in the crime comedy series P.I.K.