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Prashanth is a Actor Indian born on 1 january 1973 at Chennai (Inde)
Prashanth (born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He has also appeared in few Telugu films, bollywood and Malayalam films. The son of actor-director Thiagarajan, Prashanth began his career at 17 by appearing in Vaigasi Poranthachu and went on to feature in other films including R. K. Selvamani's Chembaruthi (1992).
Prashanth rose to stardom with Mani Ratnam's action-comedy Thiruda Thiruda, and Shankar's blockbuster romantic comedy Jeans in which he played a dual role alongside Aishwarya Rai. In the late 1990s, he featured in a series of films such as Kaadhal Kavithai, Jodi and Parthen Rasithen. His 2011 release Ponnar Shankar was based on the historical epic and became a semi-hit Prashanth also owns a multi-storeyed jewellery mart in Panagal Park.
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Prashanth
Birth name Prashanth Thiagarajan
Nationality Inde
Birth 1 january 1973 (51 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South
Nationality Inde
Birth 1 january 1973 (51 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South
Prashanth (born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He has also appeared in few Telugu films, bollywood and Malayalam films. The son of actor-director Thiagarajan, Prashanth began his career at 17 by appearing in Vaigasi Poranthachu and went on to feature in other films including R. K. Selvamani's Chembaruthi (1992).
Prashanth rose to stardom with Mani Ratnam's action-comedy Thiruda Thiruda, and Shankar's blockbuster romantic comedy Jeans in which he played a dual role alongside Aishwarya Rai. In the late 1990s, he featured in a series of films such as Kaadhal Kavithai, Jodi and Parthen Rasithen. His 2011 release Ponnar Shankar was based on the historical epic and became a semi-hit Prashanth also owns a multi-storeyed jewellery mart in Panagal Park.
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Saahasam (2016)
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Prashanth, Tamannaah Bhatia, Abitha, Nassar, Tulasi, Sonu Sood
Rating42%
Pulan Visaranai 2 (2015)
Directed by R. K. Selvamani
Actors Prashanth, Karthika Mathew, Mansoor Ali Khan, R. K., Pyramid Natarajan, Roja
Rating60%
Mambattiyan (2011)
Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Prashanth, Meera Jasmine, Prakash Raj, Mumait Khan, Vadivelu, Vijayakumar
Roles Mambattiyan
Rating44%
A landlord (Kota Srinivasa Rao) rules a village in western Tamil Nadu. When he is opposed by Mambattiyan's father (Vijayakumar), the 'jameen' kills him. Coming to know of this, Mambattiyan (Prashanth) kills the influential person and those in support of him.
Ponnar Shankar (2011)
Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films about families
Actors Prashanth, Prabhu, Jayaram, Prakash Raj, Rajkiran, Divya Parameshwaran krishna
Roles Ponnar and Shankar, the twin brothers
Rating40%
A love affair between Thamarai (Kushboo) and her maternal uncle Nellaiyankondan (Jayaram) is badly received by their family, especially since he is not financially well off. Thamarai's father, King Periyamalaikozhundhu Gounder (Vijayakumar), arranges for her marriage to Mandhiyappan (Prakashraj), ruler of a neighbouring country. Thamarai rejects the arranged marriage, angering Mandhiyappan. She later marries her lover, who had come to see her marry Mandhiyappan, and challenges her brother Chinna Malaikozhundhu (Ponvannan) to marry his daughters off to her sons (the marriage of cousins is a gounder custom). Periyamalaikozhundhu disowns his daughter for choosing Nellaiyankondan and banishes them from his kingdom.
Nilavu (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Ajith Nair (aka Ajeeth Pila Keezhil Raghavan Nair)
Actors Ramu, Nandalal Krishnamurthy, Prashanth, Sangeetha, Suresh, Rejith Menon
No man is an island. We live to love and be, loved. Even as the mind weaves its own fantasies and the heart layers it with different emotions, we are journeying on, searching for an anchor in the ebb and flow of time, in the different shades of Nilavu.
Jambhavan (2006)
Actors Prashanth, Meera Chopra, Meghna Naidu, Vivek, Vijayakumar
Roles Velan
The movie is about Velan (Prashanth), a responsible son of a village landlord (Vijayakumar). Adored by the villagers for his good deeds, Prashanth gets a shock when Vijayakumar informs that he is his foster son.
Thagapansamy (2006)
Actors Prashanth, Pooja Umashankar, Namitha, Karunas Sethu, Vincent Asokan, Mahadevan
Roles Kadhirvel
Rating21%
The film begins with Kadhirvel (Prashanth), a do-gooder going all out to get water for his village. With monsoon repeatedly failing, his village reels under drought and Prashanth runs from pillar to post to get a well dug in the village. He manages to bring Shanmugham (Mahadevan), a water-divining expert to dig a well in the village. Shanmugham along with his wife and daughter Marikozhundhu (Pooja) come to the village. Unfortunately a freak mishap kills Shanmugham and the villagers' search for water continues.
Adaikalam (2006)
, 2h35Actors Prashanth, Uma Shankari, Thiagarajan Sivanandam, Nalini, Radha Ravi, Ravichandran
Roles Anbu
Anbu (Prashanth) is a doctor & also a lovable brother of Thamizh (Uma) who are the son & daughter of Kasthuri (Saranya). Somasundaram (Radharavi), uncle of Anbu who takes care of his sister and her family. One day Anbu comes to know about his sister Thamizh’s love and arranges for the marriage. During wedding preparations unexpectedly Anbu’s mother dies out of shock. Hence Somasundaram calls Anbu’s father Sathyamurthy (Thiagarajan) who was separated from Kasthuri long years back. Anbu gets furious and argues with his uncle not to allow his heartless father to conduct the funeral and rituals. Sathyamurthy gets snubbed by his daughter and son on many occasions repeatedly, unperturbed by their ill-treatment’s, he stays quietly with his family bearing this agony. As story moves on Sathyamurthy feels sad and shares his story to Somasundaram. Somasundaram narrates the flash back to Anbu and Thamizh and make them to know about their father’s real story.
Aayudham (2005)
Actors Prashanth, Sneha, Subba Raju, Vadivelu, Rajesh, Mansoor Ali Khan
Roles Siva
Rating22%
London (2005)
Directed by Sundar C.
Actors Prashanth, Ankitha Jhaveri, Mumtaj, Pandiarajan, Vijayakumar, Sreevidya
Roles Sivaraman
Rating38%
Sivaraman (Prashanth), an easy going young man, comes to London in search of a job. He loses all his certificates. Finds Kadhir (Pandiarajan), wandering in London aimlessly without a job. Now they need job & money. Kadhir persuades Sivaraman to join in a bank robbery planned by Baskar (Manivannan) - his stammering brother Natrajan (Mayilsamy) & Aishwarya (Mumtaj), who is Baskar‘s lover which lands them in more trouble as the robbery ends vainly. Aishwarya informs the police about the robbery & tells that the entire plan was hatched by Baskar. Baskar hides the money before getting arrested & the place is known only to his lawyer - Vedimuthu (Vadivelu). Aishwarya fakes to be in love with Vedimuthu to find where the money is hidden.
Shock (2004)
Directed by Thiagarajan Sivanandam
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Prashanth, Meena, Abbas, Thiagarajan Sivanandam, Suhasini Maniratnam, Sarath Babu
Roles Vasanth
Rating49%
The film revolves around Vasanth (Prashanth), a stock analyst, and his wife Malini (Meena). The two are in search for a flat in Chennai. Vassanth finds the perfect place on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building. However, the apartment has a horrifying past. The previous occupant of the flat, a young woman Manju who had killed her child and jumped from the balcony and died. Malini learns about this incident shortly after moving in and becomes oddly fixated with the story. Then, a series of inexplicable experiences drive Malini to near madness.
Jai (2004)
Directed by S. Narayan
Actors Prashanth, Rajkiran, Thiagarajan Sivanandam, Rajan P. Dev, Bhanupriya, Seetha
Roles Jai
Rating17%
The film opens with Veerapandi (Thiagarajan) returning from USA after a long gap with his wife (Bhanupriya) and 8-year-old son Jai (Junior Prashanth). Veerapandi’s late father was a well-known factionist in that area & owned a land of 4,000 acres. While leaving for USA, Veerapandi gave the responsibility of managing this land to Vajravelu (Rajan P. Dev). Now back in India, Veerapandi realises that Vajravelu is misusing his power. He wants to donate all his land to the 2000 families staying in that village. When Vajravelu comes to know of this charity giveaway, he attacks Veerapandi, killing him & his wife. Nallamuthu (Rajkiran), a trusted lieutenant of Veerapandi, takes the kid Jai and escapes to the city (Chennai). After the murders, Veerapandi’s trusted people are put in jail with a prison sentence of 14 years.
Winner (2003)
Directed by Sundar C.
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Prashanth, Vadivelu, Kiran Rathod, Vijayakumar, M. N. Nambiar, Riyaz Khan
Roles Sakthi
Rating63%
Sakthi (Prashanth) studying in a college in the city & he gets into quarrels every other day. Not able to withstand the threats from hooligans, Sakthi’s mother (Jayamurali) & father (Vijayakumar) packs him up to their village where Sakthi’s grandfather Velayutham (M. N. Nambiar) & grandmother Sivagami (M.N.Rajam) are cultivating Paddy. In that village an innocent servant Kaipulla (Vadivelu) constantly challenged by Sakthi’s relative Kattadurai (Riyaz Khan). Sakthi visits the grandparents & decides to stay there. A marriage of their relative is planned & the whole family from all over Tamil Nadu assembles. Neelaveni (Kiran) who accompanies her relatives falls in love with Sakthi. Kattadurai is supposed to marry Neelaveni. Many event follows. Kattadurai often clash with Sakthi & gets beaten up. Amidst the wedding preparation a group of former enemies (Rajkapoor, Anuradha) along with Neelaveni’s father (Prathap Singh) kidnap Neelaveni. Sakthi goes after them. After a huge tussle whether Sakthi brings back Neelaveni, Whether they unite or not is the rest of the story.
Thamizh (2002)
Directed by Hari
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Prashanth, Simran, Nassar, Aachi Manorama, Livingston, Ashish Vidyarthi
Roles Thamizh
Rating62%
Thamizh (Prashanth) leads a happy life with his mother (Manorama) and sister-in-law (Urvasi). His brother(Livingston) is working in Kuwait and Thamizh too dreams of joining him there. Meenakshi (Simran), their tenant and Thamizh fall in love. When the goons of Periyavar (Ashish Vidyarthi) injure Thamizh's niece, he stops Periyavar's car on the road and questions him. He then beats up one of Periayavar's goons when insulted. This makes him Periyavar's target and though he tries to withdraw from the violence, he is forced to join forces with Rathnam (Nasser), Periyavar's sworn enemy and eventually defeats him.
Virumbugiren (2002)
Directed by Susi Ganeshan
Actors Prashanth, Sneha, Nassar, Easwari Rao, Livingston, Sriman
Roles Sivan
Rating64%
Shivan (Prashanth) an aspiring designer's hopes crash when he lands up with the responsibility of looking after his mother and younger brothers with his father's sudden death. Since his father dies while in service, Shivan is forced to take up his father's job as a fire service man. He meets Thavamani (Sneha), a beautiful rustic while on a posting in a village and they fall in love. But the girl's father (Nasser) and the whole village are against the lovers. How the lovers' fight against all odds and win form the rest of this love story.