Early life and career

Prabhu Deva was 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 Udipi Lakshminarayanan as well as Western styles. Raju Sundaram and Nagendra Prasad are his brothers.

Prabhu Deva first appeared as a background dancer for a song in the 1988 Tamil film Agni Natchathiram. Deva's first venture as a choreographer was Vetri Vizha (1989). He has since then choreographed in over 99 movies. From choreography, he went into acting. His first film as an actor was Indhu (1994) with actress Roja. In 1999, Dheva, Shobhana and A. R. Rahman performed with a Tamil cinema dancing troupe at the "MJ & Friends" Michael Jackson tribute concert in Munich, Germany. He acted alongside his brothers in the movie One Two Three. As of 2010, he serves as chairman and director of the Prabhudheva's Dance Academy in Singapore. He planned to release his first video album called It is boring in 2013. He also played the lead role in ABCD (Any Body Can Dance), the first 3D dance film in India.

Personal life

Prabhu Deva married Ramlath who changed her name to Latha. They had three children, but their eldest son died of cancer in 2008. In 2010 his wife filed a petition at the family court, seeking directions against Deva from live-in relationship with the actress Nayantara and requesting a reunion with him. Furthermore, Ramalath threatened to go on hunger strike if Prabhu Dheva married Nayantara, while several women's organizations conducted protests against Nayantara for bringing disrepute to Tamil culture, burning an effigy of her. In 2012, Nayantara confirmed that she had ended her relationship with Prabhu Deva.

Deva has moved to Mumbai and is residing at Boney Kapoor's old place called Green Acres. Prabhu Deva's mother Mahadevamma is from the village of Doora, about 17 kilometres (11 mi) from Mysore. He owns property in Doora, and has developed a farm there.

Other appearances

Deva made brief appearances in solo items such as "April Mayile" in Idhayam (1991), "Lallaku Doldapi Ma" in Suriyan (1992), "Chinna Rasave" in Walter Vetrivel (1993), and "Chikku Bukku Rayile" in Gentleman (1993) after appearing as junior artist in songs like "Rajathi Raja" in Agni Natchathiram (1988). He performed with Madhuri Dixit in the song "Ke Sera Sera" for the movie Pukar. He acted along with Lawrence Raghavendra in the 2006 film Style. He performed with Apache Indian in the song "No Problem" for his film Love Birds.

He performed in the film Abrakadabra for the song "Om Sh". He performed in the Nana Patekar, Karisma Kapoor starrer film Shakti: The Power (2002) for a song. He performed with Upendra in Kannada film H20. He made a special appearance in Pokkiri (which was directed by himself) with Vijay in the song "Aadungada". He performed again with Vijay in his own direction Villu for the song "Hey Rama" as a guest appearance. He performed with Bollywood actors Salman Khan and Govinda for a song in his 2009 directorial Wanted.

He performed at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Indian Premier League on 3 April in Chennai along with Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and American artist Katy Perry. The event was special to Prabhu Deva as he shared his 39th birthday on the same day.

Soramimi spoof

	Kalluri Vaanil The Tamil song became widely known to the English internet audience for its phonetic lyrics.
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On 18 August 2007, a music video for the song "Kalluri Vaanil" from the Indian-Tamil movie Pennin Manathai Thottu was uploaded to YouTube by Mike Sutton (YouTube user Buffalax). The video was retitled Benny Lava and created as a soramimi, edited to include incorrect English subtitles that phonetically approximate the original Tamil lyrics.

Reactions to the "Kalluri Vaanil" soramimi were mixed. Some felt that the video was done in "good fun" while others worried that their culture was being mocked. The music video was featured on The Colbert Report on 4 December 2008 and appeared on the heavy metal documentary Global Metal.

Filmography

Technical roles

Director

Film	Year	Language	Notes
Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana	2004	Telugu
Pournami	2006	Telugu
Pokkiri	2007	Tamil	Vijay Award for Favourite Director Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director
Shankardada Zindabad	2007	Telugu
Villu	2009	Tamil
Wanted	2009	Hindi
Engeyum Kaadhal	2011	Tamil
Vedi	2011	Tamil
Rowdy Rathore	2012	Hindi
Ramaiya Vastavaiya	2013	Hindi
R... Rajkumar	2013	Hindi
Action Jackson	2014	Hindi
Singh is Bling	2015	Hindi

Producer

He established production company Prabhu Deva Studios.

Film	Year	Director	Language	Notes
Sila Samayangalil	2016	Priyadarshan	Tamil	Filming
Vinodhan	2016	Victor Jayaraj	Tamil	Filming
Bogan	2016	Lakshman	Tamil	Filming
Abhinetri	2016	A. L. Vijay	Telugu Tamil Hindi	Filming

Performance roles

Actor

Year	Film	Language	Role	Notes
Indhu	1994	Tamil	Pattasu
Kaadhalan	1994	Tamil	Prabhu
Raasaiyya	1995	Tamil	Raasaiyya
Love Birds	1996	Tamil	Arun
Mr. Romeo	1996	Tamil	Romeo, Madras
Minsara Kanavu	1997	Tamil	Deva
VIP	1997	Tamil	Guru
Naam Iruvar Nammaku Iruvar	1998	Tamil	Prabhu, Deva
Love Story 1999	1998	Telugu	Vamsi
Kaathala Kaathala	1998	Tamil	Sundaralingam
Ninaivirukkum Varai	1999	Tamil	Janakiraman (Jonny)
Suyamvaram	1999	Tamil	Kanna
Time	1999	Tamil	Srininvasa Murthy
Vaanathaippola	2000	Tamil	Selvakumar
Eazhaiyin Sirippil	2000	Tamil	Ganesan
James Pandu	2000	Tamil	James
Pennin Manathai Thottu	2000	Tamil	Sunil
Doubles	2000	Tamil	Prabhu
Ullam Kollai Poguthae	2001	Tamil	Anbu
Alli Thandha Vaanam	2001	Tamil	Sathyam
Manadhai Thirudivittai	2001	Tamil	Deva
Charlie Chaplin	2002	Tamil	Thiru
H2O	2002	Kannada	Vairamuthu
Santosham	2002	Telugu	Pawan
One Two Three	2002	Tamil	Tirupati	Partially re-shot and also released in Telugu and Kannada
Agni Varsha	2002	Hindi	Rakshasha
Thotti Gang	2002	Telugu	Suri Babu
Kalyana Ramudu	2003	Telugu	Rajesh
Alaudin	2003	Tamil	Alaudin
Oka Radha Iddaru Krishnula Pelli	2003	Telugu	Murugan
Engal Anna	2004	Tamil	Kannan
Intlo Srimathi Veedhilo Kumari	2004	Telugu	Gopal
Andalu Dongale Dorikithe	2004	Telugu	Bujji
Style	2006	Telugu	Ganesh
Chukkallo Chandrudu	2006	Telugu	Sharat	Guest appearance
Naayudamma	2006	Telugu	Prabhu
Michael Madana Kamaraju	2008	Telugu	Michael
Urumi	2011	Malayalam	Vavvali
ABCD	2013	Hindi	Vishnu
ABCD 2	2015	Hindi	Vishnu
Kalavaadiya Pozhuthugal	2016	Tamil	Chezhiyan	Post-production
Abhinetri	2016	Tamil Telugu Hindi		Filming

Dancer

Film	Song	Year	Language	Notes
Mouna Ragam	"Panivizhum"	1986	Tamil
Agni Natchathiram	"Raja Rajadhi"	1988	Tamil
Idhayam	"April Mayile"	1991	Tamil
Unnai Vaazhthi Paadugiren	"Outa Langdi"	1992	Tamil
Suriyan	"Laalaku Dol Dappima"	1992	Tamil
Prathap	"Maanga Maanga"	1993	Tamil
Rakshana	"Gallu Mandhi Basu"	1993	Telugu
Gentleman	"Chikku Bukku Rayile"	1993	Tamil
Walter Vetrivel	"Chinna Raasave"	1993	Tamil
Pukar	"Kay Sera Sera"	2000	Hindi
Manasella Neene	Guest judge	2002	Kannada	Guest appearance
Baba	"Kichchu Tha"	2002	Tamil
Shakti	"Dumroo Baje Re"	2002	Hindi
Aabra Ka Daabra	"Shiv Om"	2004	Hindi
Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana	"Paripoke Pitta"	2005	Telugu
Pokkiri	"Aadungada"	2007	Tamil
Shankardada Zindabad	"Jagadeka Veeruniki"	2007	Telugu
Vaana	"Unnattaa Lenattaa"	2008	Telugu
Villu	"Rama Rama"	2009	Tamil
Wanted	"Jalwa"	2009	Hindi
Pa Ra Palanisamy	"Singari Mava"	2010	Tamil
Engeyum Kaadhal	"Engeyum Kaadhal"	2011	Tamil
Dhoni	"Vaangum Panathukkum"	2012	Tamil
Dhoni	"Mattiloni Chettu"	2012	Telugu
Rowdy Rathore	"Chinta Ta Chita"	2012	Hindi
Oh My God	"Govinda"	2012	Hindi
Ramaiya Vastavaiya	"Jadoo Ki Jhappi"	2013	Hindi
Boss	"Hum Na Tode"	2013	Hindi
R... Rajkumar	"Gandi Baat"	2013	Hindi
Happy New Year	Dance instructor	2014	Hindi	Guest appearance
Action Jackson	"AJ"	2014	Hindi

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