Prabhu Deva

Prabhu Deva (born on 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, movie director, producer, and actor. He mainly works in Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu movies, and has also acted in a few Kannada and Malayalam movies. His career has lasted over 32 years. He is known for creating and performing different dance styles. He has won two National Film Awards for Best Choreography. In 2019, he received the Padma Shri, one of India’s top honors, for his work in dance.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Prabhu Deva acted in many hit movies like Kadhalan (1994), Love Birds (1996), Minsara Kanavu (1997), and VIP (1997). He also gave good performances in movies like Kaathala Kaathala (1998), Vanathai Pola (2000), Pennin Manathai Thottu (2000), Alli Thandha Vaanam (2001), and Engal Anna (2004). After that, his movies did not do well, and he started acting in smaller roles in Tamil movies. Later, he became a successful director with the Telugu movie Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana in 2005. The success of this movie helped him get more directing offers. He then directed many hit movies in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi like Pokkiri (2007), Shankar Dada Zindabad (2007), Wanted (2009), Rowdy Rathore (2012), R... Rajkumar (2013), and Singh is Bliing (2015).

 Early life 
Prabhu Deva was born on 3 April 1973 in Mysore, which was then part of Mysore State (now in Karnataka), to Mugur Sundar and Mahadevamma Sundar. He was inspired by his father Mugur Sundar, who was a dance choreographer in South Indian movies. Because of this, Prabhu Deva started learning dance. He learned Indian classical dance, like Bharatanatyam, from teachers Dharmaraj and Udupi Lakshminarayanan, and also learned Western dance styles.

 Honours 
YearAwardCategory 2015Kalaimamani AwardTamil Film Industry Contribution 2019 Padma Shri Padma Shri in the field of art-dance

 Awards 
YearAwardMovie LanguageCategoryResult 1994 Nandi Awards Rakshana Telugu Best Choreography  (in Telugu) 1997 National Film Awards  Minsara Kanavu Tamil   2004 Lakshya Hindi Filmfare Awards Nandi Awards  Varsham Telugu  2005Filmfare Awards South Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana  2007 Vijay Awards Pokkiri Tamil  Favourite Director   2018 Zee Cine Awards Tamil Maari 2 Best Choreography 

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Category:Indian choreographers
Category:Indian actors
Category:Filmfare Awards winners