Home > Arts > Cinema > Tollywood >> Prabhas

HEADLINES:  

PRABHAS


One of the famous actors in the Tollywood industry is Prabhas Raju Uppalapat, who is popularly known as Prabhas. He is an Indian film actor and a super star in Telugu cinema.

He made his first movie with Eeshwar. After playing the role of a lover boy in the year 2004 in the film Varsham, Prabhas continued in his carreer, gaining mass appreciation and appearing in many successful films such as Chatrapathi, Munna, Bujjigadu and Billa. After gaining success in all his movies, he started acting in youthful films of Tollywood like Darling and Mr Perfect which were box office hits. He is the nephew of Tollywood bigwig and politician Krishnam Raju uppalapati. He was born on 23rd October 1979.

Date Of Birth : 23rd October, 1979
Place Of Birth: West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio.


temp-thumb
temp-thumb
  • Prabhas is one of the best attractive young heroes we have in the Tollywood film industry. The great success of Varsham movie took Prabhas's to a higher level in his acting field . His first out was in mass film Chatrapati.

  • Prabhas is an actor without any pretentious outlook.

  • He seems to be one of the energetic actors of the Tollywood industry.

  • Yet many of his movies got a flop in earlier days and he seems not to lose his hope and appeared again to give many successful movies to his industry.

Awards:

In the year 2004 for the movie varsham by playing the role of Venkat in that movie he was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award in Telugu.

In the year 2005 for the movie chatrapathi by acting in the role of Sivaji he again got the Filmfare best actor award in Telugu.

In the year 2009 for the movie EK Niranjan by doing the role of chotu he won the Filmfare Best Actor award in Telugu.

In the year 2010 for the romantic and comedy movie Darling doing the character of Prabha he won the cinema award for best actor special jury award.

In the year 2011 for the movie MR.PERFECT he got three awards namely Filmfare Best actor Award in Telugu , cinema best actor award in Telugu, south Indian international best actor award in Telugu.

  • He is one of the most famous Tollywood actor who has given continuous number of box-office hit movies in the Tollywood industry. The actor is reportedly being given a sum of rupees 4-5 crores for his films.


  • Prabhas started his movie career with Eeshwar in the year 2001. In the year 2003, he took the role in Raghavendra. And then he gained popularity and name in the year 2004 with the director M. S. Raju's Varsham opposite Trisha Krishnan. He followed this with the movies Adavi Raamudu and Chakram. In 2005 in the month of September he acted in the Telugu movie Chatrapathi opposite Shriya Saran.

  • And the movie Chatrapathi was a great success in Prabhas's career. Chatrapathi was then accompanied by the movies Pournami and Yogi which were both flops. The movie Munna, which was actually an action-drama film in which he acted with Ileana D'Cruz, released in 2007 was his third success after the movies Varsham and Chatrapathi, which was also followed by the action-comedy movie Bujjigadu in the year 2008, which was his second film opposite Trisha Krishnan.

  • Bujjigadu was a box office hit. In the year of 2009 his two films Billa and Ek Niranjan were successful in the theatres. In Billa Prabhas acted with Anushka Shetty for the first time, the film acquired the great success. In the year 2010 he had acted in the romantic comedy film Darling. This film also had a critical and commercial success.

  • Prabhas acted with Kajal Aggarwal, and their chemistry in that movie was liked by the audience. Prabhas's performance was also praised by each and every scene in the film and for this he also won the Cinema Awards Best Actor (Jury) for his role in the film darling . He had one release again in the year 2011 Mr. Perfect, which was an another romantic comedy movie.

  • In that movie for the second time he acted with Kajal Aggarwal, and also was starred by Taapsee Pannu. The film was praised by all the people and became a blockbuster movie. In 2012, Prabhas starred in the movie Rebel,which was actually an action film starring Tamannaah Bhatia and Deeksha Seth ,which was directed by the dancer as well as director Raghava Lawrence.

  • Rebel received many different reviews from critics, but ran successfully in the theatres. His next film is Mirchi with debutante director Koratala Shiva accompanied with Anushka Shetty and Richa Gangopadhyay. In the starting this film was named as Vaaradhi and later it was changed to Mirchi.


  • Prabhas parents are Suryanarayana Raju and Siva Kumari. His native place is Mogalturu village in West Godavari district, which is in Andhra Pradesh. He is the third child to his parents among the three. He has got an elder brother called Prabodh and sister named Pragathi. He is the nephew of Telugu actor Krishnam Raju who is also a politician. Prabhas is one among the most eligible bachelors of Tollywood. When many of his colleagues compel him to get married soon, there are many heart- throbbed girls in Andhra Pradesh has been keeping his wedding postponed. Without getting pressure from his family, the Rebel star Prabhas is enjoying his bachelor life and wants to complete his next project with great success and box-office hit to his directors.