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Prakash Raj is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 26 march 1965 at Puttur (Inde)

Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj
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Birth name Prakash Rai
Nationality Inde
Birth 26 march 1965 (59 years) at Puttur (Inde)
Awards National Film Award for Best Actor, Filmfare Awards South, Nandi Awards

Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai on 26 March 1965) is a polyglot Indian film actor, film director, producer, thespian and television presenter who is known for his works in the South Indian film industry, and few bollywood films. He acted in back-to-back stage shows for ₹300 a month in the initial stages of his career when he joined Kalakshetra, Bengaluru, and he has 2,000 street theatre performances to his credit.

After working in the Kannada television industry and Kannada cinema for a few years, he made his debut in Tamil cinema through Duet (1994) by K. Balachander and has since been a commercially successful film star in Tamil. In remembrance, he named his production company Duet Movies. Prakash has also worked in a number of Bollywood films.

Apart from his mother tongue Kannada, Prakash's fluency in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and English has placed him among the most sought after actors in Indian cinema. He has played a variety of roles, most notably as the antagonist and, of late, as a character actor. Prakash, as an actor has won a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Mani Ratnam's Iruvar and a National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his role in Kanchivaram, a Tamil film directed by Priyadarshan, and as a producer has won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada for Puttakkana Highway directed by his long-time theatre friend B. Suresh in 2011. Prakash was also the host of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi during the shows second season.

Biography

Prakash Raj was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka on 26 March 1965 to a Tulu speaking father Manjunath Rai and a Kannadiga mother Swarnalatha in a lower-middle-class Kannada speaking family. His brother is Prasad Raj who is also an actor. He completed schooling at St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore and joined St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore. Prakash Rai changed his name to Prakash Raj based on prominent Tamil film director K. Balachander's advice; he is still called Prakash Rai in his home town Karnataka.

Prakash Raj married actress Lalitha Kumari in 1994. They have two daughters, Meghana and Pooja, and a son Sidhu. The couple divorced in 2009.

He married choreographer Pony Verma on 24 August 2010.

Usually with

Brahmanandam
Brahmanandam
(88 films)
M. S. Narayana
M. S. Narayana
(56 films)
Tanikella Bharani
Tanikella Bharani
(48 films)
Nassar
Nassar
(46 films)
Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma
(45 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Prakash Raj (329 films)

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Actor

Bhaiyyaji Superhitt
Bhaiyyaji Superhitt (2018)

Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action
Actors Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Arshad Warsi, Ameesha Patel, Tusshar Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty
Rating39% 1.9706851.9706851.9706851.9706851.970685
Deol plays a gangster who wants to become a film actor.
Wazir
Wazir (2016)

Directed by Bejoy Nambiar
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari, Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Manav Kaul
Rating70% 3.5482453.5482453.5482453.5482453.548245
Wazir 'est un conte de deux amis improbables, un grand maître d'échecs en fauteuil roulant et un brave officier ATS. Réunis par la douleur et un étrange coup du sort, les deux hommes décident de s'entraider gagner les plus grands jeux de leur vie. Mais il y a un adversaire dangereux mystérieux, tapi dans l'ombre, qui est prêt à les faire échec et mat.
Ghayal Once Again
Ghayal Once Again (2016)

Directed by Sunny Deol, Rahul Rawail
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sunny Deol, Om Puri, Murali Sharma, Prachi Desai, Dharmendra, Vidya Balan
Rating61% 3.0994053.0994053.0994053.0994053.099405
The film will take-off from where the first version left off.
Oopiri
Oopiri (2016)

Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Karthi, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha Kapoor, Vivek
Roles Prasad
Rating79% 3.995193.995193.995193.995193.99519
Un condamné en liberté conditionnelle trouve un emploi en tant que gardien d'un multimillionnaire, paralysé de plein fouet.
Isai
Isai (2015)
, 3h10
Directed by S. J. Surya
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Sulagna Panigrahi, Prakash Raj, S. J. Surya, Sathyaraj, V. Jayaprakash, Thambi Ramaiah
Rating63% 3.198423.198423.198423.198423.19842
Vetriselvan (Sathyaraj) is an established and an old fashioned music director in the industry. He is loved and respected for his works and is termed as the greatest musician of our times. A. K. Shiva (S. J. Surya) who works as an assistant under Vetriselvan gets an opportunity to compose music for a small time film. When he seeks permission from Vetriselvan to go ahead with his first venture as a music director, Vetriselvan doesn't oppose the idea as he wouldn't have imagined even in his wildest dream that one day A. K. Shiva would surpass him in the musical world.