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Prabhu Deva

Prabhu Deva

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Prabhu Deva is an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer and actor, who has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada films. In a career spanning twenty five years, he has performed and designed a wide range of dancing styles and has garnered two National Film Awards for Best Choreography. Inspired by his father, Mugur Sundar, a choreographer for South Indian movies, and took up dancing learning Indian classical dance forms such as Bharatanatyam from Dharmaraj and Udupi Lakshminarayanan as well as Western styles. Prabhu Deva first appeared as a boy playing a flute in the song "Panivizhum Iravu" from the Tamil film Mouna Ragam (1986).[7][8] He later appeared as a background dancer for a song in the 1988 Tamil film Agni Natchathiram. Deva's first venture as a choreographer was the Kamal Haasan starrer Vetri Vizha (1989). Beginning with a series of acting roles in the 1990s and early 2000s, Prabhu Deva featured in several commercially successful films including Kadhalan (1994), Minsara Kanavu (1997) and VIP (1997). After further critically acclaimed performances in the comedy Kaathala Kaathala (1998) and the family drama Vanathai Pola (2000), Deva then failed to recreate the success of his earlier films and his box office value began to decline and he subsequently made appearances in supporting roles and low budget Telugu language films. He then successfully ventured into direction with the 2005 Telugu film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana, and the success of the project prompted further offers for Deva as a director. He then went on to make highly profitable films in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil languages such as Pokkiri (2007), Wanted (2009), Rowdy Rathore (2012) and Singh is Bling (2015).

Filmography (97)

Baba poster
Baba2002

As Special Appearance in "Baba Kichu Kichu Tha" Song

TMDb 6.3 / 10

Villu poster
Villu2009

As (special appearance in the song "Rama Rama")

TMDb 3.8 / 10

Wanted poster
Wanted2009

As Special Appearance in "Jalwa" Song

TMDb 5.9 / 10

Boss poster
Boss2013

As Man at the party

TMDb 5.6 / 10

GodFather poster
GodFather2022

As Special Appearance in song "Thaar Maar Thakkar Maar"

TMDb 5.9 / 10

Dabangg 3 poster
Dabangg 32019

As Special Appearance in "Munna Badnaam Hua" Song

TMDb 4.8 / 10

Pukar poster
Pukar2000

As as Himself in song, "Kay Sera Sera"

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Urumi poster
Urumi2011

As Nagapattinam Vavvali / Thanseer / Tarzan

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Hey Bro poster
Hey Bro2015

As Special Appearance in "Birju" Song

TMDb 4.0 / 10

Filmography and biography: TMDb