Saturday, August 31, 2013
PRABHU
DEVA (born 3 April 1973 ), is an Indian film choreographer,
stage dancer, actor and director known for
his works predominantly in Tamil, Telugu cinema, Bollywood, Malayalam and Kannada
films. In a career spanning twenty-five years, He has performed and designed a
wide range of dancing styles. He has garnered two National Film Awardsfor Best
Choreography, and has been widely known by the media as India's Michael
Jackson.
After a sequence of successful attempts in acting in the 1990s and
early 2000s such as Kadhalan (1994), Raasaiyya (1995),Minsara
Kanavu (1997), Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar (1998), Kaathala
Kaathala (1998) and Vanathai Pola (2000), Prabhu
Dheva ventured into direction with 2005 Telugu blockbuster Nuvvostanante
Nenoddantana. He then went on to direct successful films in Telugu, Hindi and
Tamil languages such as Shankardada Zindabad (2007), Pokkiri (Tamil)(2007), Wanted (2009)
andRowdy Rathore (2012).
Prabhu Dheva was born in chennai to Kannada Lingayat family.
His father, Mugur Sundar (known as Sundaram Master), was a
choreographer for South Indian movies. His family later moved to Chennai
where he grew up. Prabhu Dheva was inspired by his father 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 100 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 "Michael Jackson and Friends" 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.
Prabhu Dheva married Ramlath who converted from Christianity to
Hinduism and changed her name to Latha; they had three children - their eldest
son (Basavaraju/Vishal) died of cancer in 2008.
During the making of the film Villu in 2008, there
were reports that he and actress Nayantara fell in love on the sets
with some reports even claiming that he married her secretly in June
2009. She had tattooed his name on her wrist and began appearing with him
in public, while neither denying nor confirming the relationship. In
September 2010, Prabhu Dheva openly confessed his love for Nayantara and
further stated that he would marry her soon. The issue gained media attention
and turned into a controversy, since Prabhu Dheva was not divorced from
Ramalath. Prabhu Dheva publicly claimed that his marriage to Ramalath was
invalid; he privately wed Nayantara after she underwent conversion to Hinduism.
Unwilling to grant a divorce, she filed a petition at the family court, seeking
directions against her husband and Nayantara marrying, attending
functions together and receiving awards as husband and wife, 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.
Prabhu Dheva has moved to Mumbai and is residing at Boney Kapoor's
old place in Green Acres.
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