Prabhu Deva
Acting
🎂 1973-04-03
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).
Cast credits(100)
Himself
2016
Self
2000
Self
2013
Suri babu
2002
Special Appearance in "Jalwa" Song
2009
Special Appearance in "Jaddu Ki Jhappi" Song
2013
Kathiravan
2022
Rakshasa
2002
Krishna
2018
Self
2015
2024
Special appearance in song "Engeyum Kadhal"
2011
Deva
2001
Dance Instructor
2014
Special Appearance in song "Thaar Maar Thakkar Maar"
2022
Pon Manickavel
2021
Special Appearance in "Baba Kichu Kichu Tha" Song
2002
Janaki Raman alias Jani
1999
Tirupati
2002
Krishna Kumar
2019
1994
Karkikuki Bootham
2022
Special Appearance
2007
Special Appearance in "Munna Badnaam Hua" Song
2019
Kalyan Sundaram
2024
Guru
1997
blind & deaf person
2018
Deva
1997
Bagheera/Prabhu
2023
(special appearance in the song "Rama Rama")
2009
1993
Pandu
2000
Durai
2022
2001
Self (Special appearance in the song "Raaja Raajathi")
1988
Prabhu
1994
Sunil
2000
Vishnu
2015
Special Appearance in "Shiv Om" Song
2004
special appearance in the song "April Mayilae"
1991
Madras/ Romeo
1996
Sundaralingam
1998
Special Appearance in song "Gandi Baat" Song
2013
Poonkundran
2024
Ganesh
2006
Carlos Pedro Panther
2025
Himself
2008
1999
Krishna Kumar
2016
2001
2005
as Himself in song, "Kay Sera Sera"
2000
Alaudin
2003
Vishnu
2013
Vavvali of Nagapattinam/Thanseer
2011
Special Appearance
1993
Srinivasa Murthy
1999
Special Appearance in "Chinta Ta Ta Chita Chita" song
2012
Special Appearance in 'Dumroo Baja Re' Song
2002
Raasaiyya
1995
2003
Ram Prasad
2020
Macha boi
2025
Special Appearance in "Jagadeka Veeruniki" Song
2007
Dev
2019
Thiru
2019
Cameo
2012
Himself
2025
Ganesan
2000
Pawan
2002
Special Appearance in "Outa Langdi" Song
1992
2024
Special Appearances
2014
2002
Prabhu
2000
Gopal
2004
Special Appearance
2022
Michael Musasi
Arun/ David
1996
Chezhiyan
2017
Special Appearance in "Birju" Song
2015
2004
2006
Thiru
2002
Prabhu/Deva
1998
Puttaswamy
2007
2000
(guest appearance)
2001
Vamsi
1998
2003
Badri
2018
Bujji
2004
Crew (36)
Choreographer
2006
Choreographer
2008
Choreographer
2009
Choreographer
2025
Choreographer
1993
Choreographer
2022
Choreographer
2010
Choreographer
1993
Choreographer
1993
Choreographer
2002
Choreographer
2024
Choreographer
2004
Choreographer
2005
Choreographer
1995
Choreographer
1991
Choreographer
1994
Choreographer
2003
Choreographer
2023
Choreographer
2017
Choreographer
1993
Choreographer
1993
Choreographer
2022
Choreographer
2016
Choreographer
2022
Choreographer
2018
Choreographer
2007
Associate Choreographer
1989
Choreographer
1992
Choreographer
1993
Choreographer
2025
Choreographer
2012
Choreographer
2017
Choreographer
2002
Choreographer
2006
Choreographer
1991
Choreographer
1998
