Prabhu Deva

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amraj and Udupi Lakshminarayanan as well as he learnt Western dancing . He has his own dance academy in Singapore.

Prabhu Deva is a director, choreographer and actor. He has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films. In his career of over more than 25 years, he has performed and designed various dance styles. Prabhu Deva appeared in many successful movies in the 1990s and early 2000s including Kadhalan 1994, Minasara Kanavu 1997, VIP 1997, Kaathala Kaathala 1998 and Vanathai Pola 2000. He first appeared as a boy playing flute in the song Panivizhum Iravu in tha tamil movie Mouna Ragam 1986. In early 2000s Deva started doing small budget films as his box office value started to decline. He received critical acclaim by portraying the role of a bus conductor in the movie Eazhaiyin Sirippil that released in 2000. In 2001, he got commercial success from Ullam Kollai Poguthae and Manadhai Thirudivvitai both released in 2001. Deva’s dance choreography on the songs Mukabla and Urvasi Urvasi got famous throughout the country from the film Kadhalan in 1994 which went on to win four National Awards with the songs by A.R Rehman and choreography by Prabhu Deva. Rajeev Menon’s Minsara Kanavu a romantic drama featuring Arvind Swamy and Kajol along with Prabhu Deva received critical success wherein Prabhu Deva got critical acclaim for his role and performance. The film won four national film Awards,three Tamil Nadu state Awards and a Filmfare Award for A R Rehman’s music. Prabhu Deva also featured in the Guinness world record setting film SuyamVaram. He also did a successful family drama Vaanathaippola in 2000. He appeared in a trilingual movie One Two Three with his brothers in 2002. He also worked extensively in the Telugu film industry, appearing in multi-starrer films or as the second lead actor, in projects including Santosham 2002, Kalyana Ramudu 2003 and Andaru Dongale Dorikite 2004. Prabhu Deva started his directorial career, he started appearing less as an actor. However, he kept featuring in a few films including Style, ABCD and ABCD 2. He performed with Madhuri Dixit on the song Kay Sera Sera in the movie Pukar. Prabhu Deva also performed with Sonakshi Sinha on the song Go Go Go Govinda from the movie OMG Oh My God! Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana in 2004, Pournami in 2006,Pokkiri in 2007, Shankardada Zindabad in 2007, followed by Villu 2009,Wanted 2009, Engeyum Kaadhal 2011, Vedi 2011, Rowdy Rathore 2012, Ramaiya Vastavaiya 2013, R... Rajkumar 2013, Action Jackson 2014. Singh is Bling 2015 and Tutak Tutak Tutiya 2016 are all his directorial movies which he has directed. Prabhu Deva established dance as an integral part of Bollywood and South Indian Movies and most of his films have gained popularity only because of his Dance sequence which have always got a lot of fame . Currently, Prabhu Deva is amongst one of the leading directors of Bollywood. He charges approximately 10 Crores for the films he works with in Bollywood Hindi films.