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  3. Prakash Raj is an Indian film actor, film director, producer and television presenter who mainly works in the South Indian film industry. Wikipedia
  5. Born: March 26, 1965 (age 49), Bengaluru
  6. Height: 1.75 m
  7. Spouse: Pony Verma (m. 2010), Lalitha Kumari (m. 1994–2009)
  8. Children: Pooja Rai, Sidhu Rai, Meghna Rai
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Prakash Raj

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Prakash Raj
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BornPrakash Rai
26 March 1965 (age 49)[1]
Bengaluru,[2][3] Karnataka, India
ResidenceChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Other namesPrakash Raj
OccupationFilm actor
producer
Film director
Television presenter
Years active1986–present
Spouse(s)Lalitha Kumari
(1994–2009 divorced)
Pony Verma
(2010–present)
ChildrenMeghana
Pooja
Siddhu (1999 – 20 March 2004)
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Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai on 26 March 1965) is an Indian film actor, film director, producer and television presenter who mainly works in the South Indian film industry.[4] He acted in back-to-back stage shows for INR300 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.[2]
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.[5][6] 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.[7][8] 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,[9] 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.

PERSONAL LIFE[EDIT]

Prakash Raj was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka[2][3] on 26 March 1965 to a Tulu speaking father Manjunath Rai and a Kannadiga mother Swarnalatha[10] in a lower-middle-class Kannada speaking family.[1] His brother is Prasad Raj who is also an actor.[3][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] 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.[18]
Prakash Raj married actress Lalitha Kumari in 1994. They have two daughters, Meghana and Pooja, and a son Sidhu.[19][20] The couple divorced in 2009.[21]
He married choreographer Pony Verma on 24 August 2010.[22]

CAREER[EDIT]

Main article: Prakash Raj filmography

As actor[edit]

Prakash began his acting career with Doordarshan serials like Bisilu Kudure (Kannada) and Guddada Bhootha (Tulu and Kannada). He later took up supporting roles in Kannada films like Raamachari, Ranadheera, Nishkarsha and Lockup Death. He was noticed for his dialogue delivery and histrionics. His breakthrough role came in Harakeya Kuri, directed by K. S. L. Swamy starring Vishnuvardhan with whom he had acted in other films like Mithileya Seetheyaru, Muthina Haara and Nishkarsha. His performance was noticed by Geetha, the lead heroine of the film who introduced Prakash to her mentor K. Balachander, a Tamil director. He acted under the screen name "Prakash Rai" in Kannada films and was rechristened "Prakash Raj" by K. Balachander for his debut Tamil film Duet,[4]which saw him playing his first major role.
Prakash re-entered Kannada films through Nagamandala in 1997, directed by T. S. Nagabharana which was selected for Indian Panorama in the International Film Festival in 1997. He was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai. In 1997, he acted in Mani Ratnam's biopic Iruvar. The movie dealt with the relationship between politicians M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He starred in three Malayalam films in '96: The Prince,Indraprastham and Oru Yathramozhi, the last one released in 1997. He also acted in Pandippada, with Dilip in 2005.
He acted in many Telugu films, including 1998's Antahpuram which earned him National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention.
He played an important role in Venkat Prabhu's Saroja. In 2008, he produced a film titled Abhiyum Naanum and played an important character in it. He remade the movie in Kannada as Naanu Nanna Kanasu.
Since Wanted (2009), Prakash Raj has been a regular villain in Hindi language Bollywood movies, including Singham (2011) as Jaikant Shikre, Dabangg 2 as Bachcha Singh, Mumbai Mirror (2013) as Shetty, and the movie Policegiri opposite Sanjay Dutt and Prachi Desai, as Nagori.

As director[edit]

He took on the mantle of director with Naanu Nanna Kanasu in Kannada in 2010 for which he was the joint producer. The film completed 125 days successfully in the theatres across Karnataka becoming the biggest hit of the year.[23] He was nominated for the Filmfare South 'The Best Director' category for his very first film.
He then directed the Telugu and Tamil bilingual film Dhoni. In 2014, he directed the multilingual Oggarane, Ulavacharu Biryani and Un Samayal Arayil in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil respectively.[24][25][26][27] The Tamil and the Telugu versions didn't do any miracles at the box office, while Oggarane, the Kannada version became a runaway blockbuster hit of the year.[28][29][30][31][32][33]

As producer[edit]

Prakash became a producer from the Tamil film Dhaya that released in 2002 in which he was seen in the lead role with actress Meena. It earned him a Special Jury National Award for his performance. Then he produced films in Tamil like Naam in 2003, Azhagiya Theeye in 2004, Kanda Naal Mudhal in 2005, Poi in 2006 (starring Uday Kiran, his mentor K. Balachander and himself), Mozhi in 2007, Velli Thirai and Abhiyum Naanum that won many Tamil Nadu State Awards in 2008 and Inidhu Inidhu in 2010.
The first non-Tamil film that he produced was his directorial debut in Kannada Naanu Nanna Kanasu in 2010, a remake of his own Tamil production Abhiyum Naanum for which he was the joint producer with his long-time Bengaluru theatre friend, Kannada director-producer B.Suresh.[34] In 2011, he acted and jointly produced a Kannada film Puttakkana Highway again with B.Suresh who directed the film. It was a milestone in Prakash's production career since Puttakkana Highway won him the National Award for Best Regional Film for the year 2010–2011[35] and an award in 4th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2011.[36]
His first Telugu production was the Tamil-Telugu bilingual Payanam and Gaganam in 2011 starring superstar Nagarjuna Akkineni and himself in the lead role. In 2012, he produced two Tamil films Mayilu and Dhoni. In 2013 he produced a Telugu-Tamil bilingualGouravam. He produced a multilingual film Oggarane, Ulavacharu Biryani and Un Samayal Arayil in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil in respectively in 2014.[24][25][26][27] Oggarane became a huge blockbuster hit that year.[28][29][30][31][32][33]

AWARDS[EDIT]

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Prakash Raj

CONTROVERSIES[EDIT]

Prakash has been involved in several controversies.
He has been banned by the Telugu film industry six times. Prakash reacted to it by saying,
"If people who work with me say that I play hide and seek why do they repeat me? Why am I in Mahesh's nine films out of his ten. Why don't you judge me with my work? How I go about it is not important. I don't go by the rules. I put my foot down, I don't take mediocrity. There are certain locations where I can come only at 12 in the morning. I don't go by the rules."[37] It was the first time that an actor was banned by the Telugu industry.[38]
Telugu film industry insiders interpret the ban as a conspiracy by several big heroes and producers. Problems started during the shoot of films like Pavan Kalyan's Jalsa, NTR Jr's Kantri, and Parugu starring Allu Arjun.[38][39][40][41][42]
There was controversy for his naked appearance for a sequence in his latest Telugu release titled Ongole Githa. The film got an 'A Certificate' from the Censor Board. Prakash reacted by saying, "I did not shed my clothes for creating sensation, I had no plans to star in that sequence. The script demanded and it; as an actor, I have to abide by the script. Director Bhaskar told me that it would be an 'important' sequence in the context of the film and I just carried out his instructions."[43][44][45]
Several Kannada organisations staged protests in front of theatres since they felt that some dialogue in a scene from the Hindi film Singham starring Ajay Devgan and Prakash were derogatory against the Kannadigas. The Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) had demanded the deletion of all "objectionable" dialogue from the movie. The screening was stopped in major centres of Karnataka. The controversial scene starts off with Prakash threatening Ajay that he would bring 1,000 people from Karnataka border to thrash him. Ajay (who plays Bhajirao Singham, a Maratha) retorts that one lion would suffice to shoo away a thousand dogs. The controversy assumes significance in the backdrop of the decades-old border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra. Kannada protesters also felt that Prakash, being a Kannadiga should have told the team that it is not right. Prakash reacted to it to the Kannada and the Telugu media by saying, "I am a Kannadiga myself and I love my mother tongue Kannada. I'm very proud of my community and would never deliberately do anything to hurt my people How would I allow conversations that provide pain to people of Karnataka in any movie in which I am cast? There is nothing controversial about the dialogue. I am a Maratha in the movie, the controversy has started just because I am a Kannadiga and I used the word 'Karnataka border' in the film because the villain in the film stays in Goa, the Karnataka border."[46][47][48] Finally the dialogue was removed, and the whole team of Singham including the director, Rohit Shetty, production house 'Reliance Big Entertainment' and Prakash apologised to all the Kannadigas; the issue was resolved.[49][50][51][52]

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