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Also known as Prabhudheva

Indian choreographer, film producer & actor

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Acting · Mysore, Karnataka, India

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…

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  • Badass Ravi Kumar — Carlos Pedro Panther2025
  • Be Happy — Himself2025
  • The Greatest of All Time — Kalyan Sundaram2024
  • Karataka Damanaka2024
  • Petta Rap — Bala the Hero2024
  • Jolly O Gymkhana — Poonkundran2024
  • Bagheera — Bagheera/Prabhu2023
  • Poikkal Kuthirai — Kathiravan2022
  • My Dear Bootham — Karkikuki Bootham2022
  • Lucky Man — Special Appearance2022

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Prabhu Deva Sundaram (Tamil : பிரபு தேவா சுந்தரம்) better known just as Prabhu Deva, born 3 April 1973, is a choreographer, actor and film director in India. He is popularly called "India's Michael Jackson" for his fast dance movements. His first movie as a dance director was Vetri Vizha (Tamil) (year). He has since choreographed over 100 movies. He is Receipent of National Awards for Best Choreographer for the film "Minsara Kanavu" in Tamil and "Lakshya" in Hindi. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m

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Born
( 1973-04-03 ) 3 April 1973 (age 53) , Mysore , Mysore State , (now Karnataka ), India
Occupations
Actor director dancer choreographer producer
Years active
1991–present
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Spouses
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Father
Mugur Sundar
Relatives
Raju Sundaram (brother) Nagendra Prasad (brother)
Honours
Padma Shri (2019)

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Prabhu Deva
date of birth
1973-04-03
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1988-00-00
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Prabhu
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Prabhu Deva (born 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer and actor who has worked predominantly in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu language films also appeared in few Kannada and Malayalam films. In a career spanning 32 years, he has performed and designed dancing styles and has garnered two National Film Awards for Best Choreography. In 2019, Prabhu Deva was awarded Padma Shri for his contributions to the field of art and dance.

Beginning with a series of acting roles in the 1990s and early 2000s, Prabhu Deva featured in several commercially successful films including Kaadhalan (1994), Love Birds (1996), Minsara Kanavu (1997) and VIP (1997). After further critically acclaimed performances in Kaathala Kaathala (1998), Vanathai Pola (2000), Pennin Manathai Thottu (2000), Alli Thandha Vaanam (2001) and Engal Anna (2004). Deva then failed to recreate the success of his earlier films and his box office value began to decline. He subsequently made appearances in supporting roles in Tamil. 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 Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages such as Pokkiri (2007), Shankar Dada Zindabad (2007), Wanted (2009), Rowdy Rathore (2012), R... Rajkumar (2013) and Singh is Bliing (2015).

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