Prabhu Deva

Some Lesser Known Facts About Prabhu Deva

• Prabhu Deva is a famous choreographer, director, producer, and actor in India.

• Prabhu’s father won the National Award for choreography in 1994. Inspired by his father, he developed an interest in dancing at a very young age.

• He is well versed in the Indian classical dance forms such as Bharatanatyam, which he learnt from Dharmaraj and Udupi Lakshminarayanan. Later, he got training in western dance forms too.

• At the age of 11, he appeared for the first time on a stage.

• When he was 16 years old, he choreographed the veteran actor Kamal Hassan for the film Vetri Vizha (1989).

• Prabhu was in a live-in relationship with his ex-wife, Ramlath, who was then a struggling dancer. They secretly got married in 1995, and later, they were blessed with three children. Prabhu insisted her to convert her religion from Islam to Hinduism. She even changed her name from Ramlath to Latha. The couple got divorced on 2 July 2010, after Prabhu confessed his love for the South-Indian actress, Nayanthara. ^[6]Telugu One

• After the divorce, he moved in a live-in relationship with Nayanthara, but they got separated in 2012. There were rumours that the reason for their break up was that Prabhu backed off on getting married to her.

• Before, appearing on the big screen, Prabhu Deva choreographed in more than 100 Hindi and regional films. Some of his best-choreographed songs are ‘Muqabala Muqabala’ (Hum Se Hai Muqabla, 1994), ‘Urvashi Urvashi’ (Hum Se Hai Muqabla, 1994) ‘Kay Sera Sera’ (Pukar, 2000).

• In an interview the South-Indian actor Chiranjeevi said,
  

  I owe a lot to Prabhu Deva because he was the brain behind my dance numbers which were very popular with the masses. The boy is a born dancer.”

• He has acted in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada films including ABCD (2013), Lakshmi (2018), Pon Manickavel (2019), and Street Dancer (2020).

• He has directed a few films including Shankardada Zindabad (2007), Wanted (2009), Ramaiya Vastavaiya (2013), Dabangg 3 (2019), and Radhe (2020).

  

• He is one of the few celebrities who is honoured with a wax statue at the celebrity wax statue Museum, Lonavala, Mumbai.

  

• In 2010, he started a dance school in Singapore.