Prabhu Deva

Prabhu Deva adalah koreografer tari, sutradara film, produser dan aktor India, yang pernah bekerja di film Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam dan Kannada. Dalam rentang karirnya selama dua puluh lima tahun, ia telah menampilkan dan merancang berbagai gaya menari dan telah mengumpulkan dua Penghargaan Film Nasional untuk Koreografi Terbaik. Terinspirasi oleh ayahnya, Mugur Sundar, seorang koreografer film India Selatan, dan mulai menari mempelajari bentuk tarian klasik India seperti Bharatanatyam dari Dharmaraj dan Udupi Lakshminarayanan serta gaya Barat. Prabhu Deva pertama kali muncul sebagai anak laki-laki yang memainkan seruling dalam lagu "Panivizhum Iravu" dari film Tamil Mouna Ragam (1986). Dia kemudian muncul sebagai penari latar untuk sebuah lagu di film Tamil tahun 1988 Agni Natchathiram. Usaha pertama Deva sebagai koreografer adalah bintang Kamal Haasan Vetri Vizha (1989). Dimulai dengan serangkaian peran akting pada tahun 1990an dan awal tahun 2000an, Prabhu Deva tampil dalam beberapa film yang sukses secara komersial termasuk Kadhalan (1994), Minsara Kanavu (1997) dan VIP (1997). Setelah penampilannya yang mendapat pujian lebih lanjut dalam komedi Kaathala Kaathala (1998) dan drama keluarga Vanathai Pola (2000), Deva kemudian gagal menciptakan kembali kesuksesan film-film sebelumnya dan nilai box office-nya mulai menurun dan ia kemudian tampil dalam peran pendukung dan film berbahasa Telugu beranggaran rendah. Dia kemudian berhasil menjadi sutradara dengan film Telugu 2005 Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana, dan kesuksesan proyek tersebut mendorong tawaran lebih lanjut untuk Deva sebagai sutradara. Dia kemudian membuat film-film yang sangat menguntungkan dalam bahasa Telugu, Hindi dan Tamil seperti Pokkiri (2007), Wanted (2009), Rowdy Rathore (2012) dan Singh is Bling (2015).

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 took up dancing learning Indian classical dance forms such as Bharatanatyam from Dharmaraj and Udupi Lakshminarayanan as well as Western styles. Prabhu Deva first appeared as a boy playing a flute in the song "Panivizhum Iravu" from the Tamil film Mouna Ragam (1986).[7][8] He later appeared as a background dancer for a song in the 1988 Tamil film Agni Natchathiram. Deva's first venture as a choreographer was the Kamal Haasan starrer Vetri Vizha (1989). Beginning with a series of acting roles in the 1990s and early 2000s, Prabhu Deva featured in several commercially successful films including Kadhalan (1994), Minsara Kanavu (1997) and VIP (1997). After further critically acclaimed performances in the comedy Kaathala Kaathala (1998) and the family drama Vanathai Pola (2000), Deva then failed to recreate the success of his earlier films and his box office value began to decline and he subsequently made appearances in supporting roles and low budget Telugu language films. 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 Telugu, Hindi and Tamil languages such as Pokkiri (2007), Wanted (2009), Rowdy Rathore (2012) and Singh is Bling (2015).