Prabhu Deva at the success party of his film Rowdy Rathore in 2012

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 28 years, he has performed and designed a wide range of dancing styles and has predominantly acted in Tamil films. He made his debut as a boy playing a flute in the song "Panivizhum Iravu", from the Tamil film Mouna Ragam (1986).[1] After several appearances as a dancer, he made his debut as a lead actor in Pavithran's Indhu. He made his career breakthrough in his second film Kadhalan (1994) directed by S. Shankar. Prabhu Deva acted as a college student who loves the daughter of state governor, who has ties with a terrorist. The film was a commercial success and critics lauded Prabhu Deva's choreography and his dance sequences in the songs "Mukkabla" and "Urvasi Urvasi", became very popular.[2][3]

Prabhu Deva featured in several commercially successful films like Minsara Kanavu (1997) and VIP (1997), where for the former he went on to win the National Film Award for Best Choreography for his work in the songs "Strawberry Kannae" and "Vennilave".[4] He was critically acclaimed for his performance in the comedy Kaathala Kaathala (1998), co-starring with Kamal Haasan.[5][6] Despite the successful ventures like Eazhaiyin Sirippil (2000) and Sundar C's Ullam Kollai Poguthae (2001), Deva was unable to recreate the success he had in his earlier years and many of his films didn't perform well financially.[7]

In the year 2005, Prabhu Deva made his debut as a director in the Telugu film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana.[8] The film received critical acclaim and went on to become a blockbuster. The film was remade in seven languages and it is considered as the first Indian movie to do so. The movie won 9 Filmfare awards including a Best Choreographer award for Prabhudeva.[9] Following the success of his directorial ventures, Deva started to prioritize directing to acting. Occasionally he starred as a lead in dance films like Style (2006), ABCD (2013) and its sequel ABCD 2 (2015).[10][11]

Prabhu Deva established the production company Prabhu Deva Studios and produced the film Devi, which was directed by A. L. Vijay in the year 2016. The film marked the return of Deva to Tamil cinema as an actor after a 11-year hiatus.[12] The film was acclaimed critically and was a financial success at the box office. After the success of the film, Deva appeared in Gulaebaghavali, silent film Mercury and Lakshmi in the year 2018.[13][14] In the year 2019, Deva had a line up of sequel films including Charlie Chaplin 2, a sequel to Deva's Charlie Chaplin, and Devi 2.[15][16] Both the films were met with negative reviews and failed commercially.[17][18]

Filmography

Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released

Director

List of Prabhu Deva film credits as director
Year Film Language Ref.
2005 Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana Telugu [19]
2006 Pournami Telugu [20]
2007 Pokkiri Tamil [21]
Shankar Dada Zindabad Telugu [22]
2009 Villu Tamil [23]
Wanted Hindi [24]
2011 Engeyum Kaadhal Tamil [25]
Vedi Tamil[26]
2012 Rowdy Rathore Hindi [27]
2013 Ramaiya Vastavaiya Hindi [28]
R... Rajkumar Hindi [29]
2014 Action Jackson Hindi
2015 Singh is Bling Hindi
2019 Dabangg 3 Hindi [30]
2021 Radhe Hindi [31]

Producer

List of Prabhu Deva film credits as producer
Year Film Language Notes
2016 Devi Tamil
2017 Bogan Tamil
2018 Sometimes Tamil Alternatively titled Sila Samayangalil
Netflix film

Performance roles

Actor

List of Prabhu Deva film credits as actor
Year Film Role Language Notes Ref.
1994 Indhu Chinnasamy (Pattasu) Tamil Debut as an actor; Tamil Debut
Kaadhalan Prabhu Tamil [32]
1995 Raasaiyya Raasaiyya Tamil
1996 Love Birds Arun / David Tamil
Mr. Romeo Romeo, Madras Tamil
1997 Minsara Kanavu Deva Tamil [33]
VIP GuruTamil [34]
1998 Naam Iruvar Nammaku Iruvar Prabhu / Deva Tamil [35]
Love Story 1999 Vamsi Telugu Telugu Debut
Kaathala Kaathala Sundaralingam Tamil
1999 Ninaivirukkum Varai Janakiraman (Johnny) Tamil [36]
Suyamvaram Kanna Tamil [37]
Time Srininvasa MurthyTamil
2000 Vaanathaippola Selvakumar Tamil
Eazhaiyin Sirippil Ganesan Tamil
James Pandu James Tamil
Pennin Manathai Thottu Sunil Tamil [38]
Doubles Prabhu Tamil
2001 Nila Kaalam Ashok Tamil Television film; Guest appearance [39]
Ullam Kollai Poguthae AnbuTamil [40]
Alli Thandha Vaanam Sathyam Tamil [41]
Manadhai Thirudivittai Deva Tamil [42]
2002 Charlie Chaplin Thiru Tamil
H2O Vairamuthu Kannada Kannada Debut
Santosham Pawan Telugu
One Two ThreeTirupathiTamil[43]
Manasella Neene Himself Kannada Guest appearance [44]
Agni Varsha Rakshasha Hindi Hindi Debut [45]
Thotti Gang Suri Babu Telugu
2003 Kalyana Ramudu Rajesh Telugu [46]
Alaudin Alaudin Tamil
Oka Radha Iddaru Krishnula Pelli Murugan Telugu
2004 Engal Anna Kannan Tamil
Tapana Venu Telugu
Intlo Srimathi Veedhilo Kumari Gopal Telugu [47]
Andalu Dongale Dorikithe Bujji Telugu
2006 Style Ganesh Telugu [48]
Chukkallo Chandrudu Sharat Telugu Guest appearance [49]
Naayudamma Prabhu Telugu [50]
2007PrarambhaPuttaswamy GowdaKannadaShort film [51]
2008 Michael Madana Kamaraju Michael, Ravi Telugu
2011 Urumi Vavvali Malayalam [52]
2013 ABCD Vishnu Hindi [53]
2014 Happy New Year Dance instructor Hindi Guest appearance [54]
2015 ABCD 2 Vishnu Hindi [55]
2016 Devi Krishna Kumar Tamil Also producer
Abhinetri Telugu [56]
Tutak Tutak Tutiya Hindi [57]
2017 Kalavaadiya Pozhuthugal Porchezhiyan Tamil [58]
2018 Gulaebaghavali Badri Tamil [59]
Mercury Blind man Silent [60]
Lakshmi Vijay Krishna aka Krishna / VK Tamil partially reshot in Telugu [61]
2019 Charlie Chaplin 2 Thiru Tamil [62]
Devi 2 Krishna Kumar / Alex Britto / Ranga Reddy Tamil [63]
Abhinetri 2 Telugu [64]
Khamoshi Dev Hindi [65]
2020 Street Dancer 3D Anna / Ram Prasad Hindi [66]
2021 Pon Manickavel Pon Manickavel Tamil [67]
2022Theal Durai Tamil [68]
My Dear Bootham Karkimuki, the Genie Tamil [69]
Poikkal Kuthirai Kathiravan Tamil [70]
2023 Bagheera Bagheera Muralidharan Tamil [71]
Flashback † Writer Tamil [72]
Karataka Damanaka † Damanaka Kannada [73]
TBA The Greatest of All Time † Tamil Filming [74]
Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released

Dancer

List of Prabhu Deva film credits as dancer
Year Film Song Language Notes
1990 Michael Madana Kama Rajan "Rum Bum Bum Arambum" Tamil Debut Tamil film as choreographer. Credited as S.Prabhu.
1991 Adhikari "Naiyaandi Melam"
Idhayam "April Mayile"
1992 Unnai Vaazhthi Paadugiren "Ippodhum Nippen"
Suriyan "Laalaku Dol Dappima"
1992 Johnnie Walker Shanthamee Rathriyil Malayalam Debut Malayalam film as choreographer
1993 Prathap "Maanga Maanga" Tamil
Rakshana "Gallu Mandhi Basu" Telugu
Ezhai Jaathi "Koduthalum Koduthanda" Tamil
Gentleman "Chikku Bukku Rayile"
Walter Vetrivel "Chinna Raasave"
2000 Pukar "Kay Sera Sera" Hindi
2002 Baba "Kichchu Tha" Tamil
Shakti "Dumroo Baje Re" Hindi
2004 Aabra Ka Daabra[75] "Shiv Om"
2005 Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana "Paripoke Pitta" Telugu
2006 Pournami "Koyo Koyo"
2007 Pokkiri "Aadungada" Tamil
Shankardada Zindabad "Jagadeka Veeruniki" Telugu
2008 Vaana "Unnattaa Lenattaa"
2009 Villu "Rama Rama" Tamil
Wanted "Jalwa" Hindi
2010 Pa. Ra. Palanisamy "Netru Adhu" Tamil
2011 Engeyum Kaadhal "Engeyum Kaadhal"
2012 Dhoni "Vaangum Panathukkum"
Dhoni "Mattiloni Chettu" Telugu
Rowdy Rathore "Chinta Ta Chita" Hindi
Oh My God "Govinda"
2013 Ramaiya Vastavaiya "Jadoo Ki Jhappi"
Boss "Hum Na Tode"
R... Rajkumar "Gandi Baat"
2014 Action Jackson "AJ"
2019 Dabangg 3 "Munna Badnaam Hua"
2022 Lucky Man "Baaro Raja" Kannada Co-danced with Puneeth Rajkumar
Godfather "Thar Mar" Telugu Co-danced with Chiranjeevi & Salman Khan

Singer

List of Prabhu Deva film credits as singer
Year Film Song Language Notes Ref.
1999 Suyamvaram "Siva Siva Sankara" Tamil [76]
2001 Ullam Kollai Poguthae "Kingda" Sang the chorus portions [77]

Lyricist

List of Prabhu Deva film credits as lyricist
Year Film Song Composer Language Ref.
2019 Charlie Chaplin 2 "Ivala Ivala" Amresh Ganesh Tamil [78]
2019 Devi 2 "Sokkura Penne" Sam C. S.

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