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Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj

Birthday: 1965-03-26 | Place of Birth: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Prakash Raj is a polyglot Indian film actor, film director, producer, thespian and television presenter who is known for his works in the South Indian film industry, and a few Bollywood films.[. 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. 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. 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, 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Thank You

as    Consultant Rao

2022
Anantham

as    Elder Venkatesan

2022
Rashtra Kavach Om

as    Moorty Sahay

2022
Pada

as    N Rajasekharan IAS

2022
Major

as    Unnikrishnan

2022
Attack

as    Vadraj Kumar Subramaniam

2021
Yuvarathnaa

as    Gurudev Deshmukh

2021
Alludu Adhurs

as    Jaypal Reddy

2021
Narappa

as    Lawyer Venu Gopal

2021
Vakeel Saab

as    Nandaji

2021
Annaatthe

as    Nattadurai

2021
Aaradugula Bullet

as    Nithyanand

2021
Enemy

as    Paarirajan

2021
Pelli SandaD

as    Pattabhi Ramayya

2021
Jai Bhim

as    Perumalsamy

2020
Mayabazar 2016

as    ACP Ashok

2020
Sarileru Neekevvaru

as    Nagendra Reddy

2019
F2: Fun and Frustration

as    Dora Swamy Naidu

2019
9

as    Dr. Inayat Ali Khan

2019
Dev

as    Ramalingam

2019
Maharshi

as    Rishi's Father

2019
Asuran

as    Venugopal Seshadri