Prabhu Deva

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 198678 He later appeared as a background dancer for a song in the 1988 Tamil film Agni Natchathiram Devas 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