
Acting
Prakash Raj
Born 1965-03-26 · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai on March 26, 1965) is an acclaimed Indian actor, director, producer, and politician who works extensively across Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam cinema. Born in Bangalore, Karnataka, he began his acting career in stage shows and television serials before making his cinematic debut in the Kannada film *Mithileya Seetheyaru* (1988). Following the advice of veteran director K. Balachander, he changed his surname to 'Raj' and transitioned into the Tamil and Telugu film industries in the mid-1990s. Raj achieved massive critical acclaim and won his first National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his brilliant portrayal of politician Tamizhselvan in Mani Ratnam's Tamil political drama *Iruvar* (1997). Over the late 1990s and 2000s, he established himself as one of the most versatile and sought-after character actors and antagonists in South Indian cinema. He delivered iconic villainous performances in blockbusters like the Telugu film *Antahpuram* (1998)—which earned him a National Film Award Special Jury Mention—alongside *Badri* (2000), the Tamil hit *Ghilli* (2004) where his role as Muthu Pandi became a cultural phenomenon, and the Telugu industry hit *Pokiri* (2006). He was equally celebrated for his emotionally resonant, layered roles as a strict patriarch in family dramas like *Bommarillu* (2006) and *Abhiyum Naanum* (2008). In 2008, he won the prestigious National Film Award for Best Actor for his deeply moving performance as a traditional silk weaver in Priyadarshan's Tamil drama *Kanchivaram*. Expanding his formidable screen presence into Bollywood, Raj gained widespread recognition across North India for playing the quintessential powerful antagonist. He delivered memorable performances in massive Hindi blockbusters such as Prabhu Deva's *Wanted* (2009), Rohit Shetty's *Singham* (2011), and *Dabangg 2* (2012). Concurrently, he stepped into film production, winning another National Film Award for producing the Kannada film *Puttakkana Highway* (2011). Throughout the 2010s, he remained a ubiquitous presence across all major film industries, balancing commercial tentpoles with critical successes like *O Kadhal Kanmani* (2015) and *Rangasthalam* (2018). Renowned for his phenomenal dialogue delivery, linguistic fluency across multiple languages, and intense screen presence, he is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation. Maintaining an incredibly prolific output in the modern era, Raj continues to be a staple in major pan-Indian productions. His prominent recent releases include Trivikram's *Guntur Kaaram*, Dhanush's *Raayan*, Koratala Siva's *Devara: Part 1*, Suriya's *Kanguva*, and Sukumar's *Pushpa 2: The Rule*. His expansive upcoming slate stretching through 2025 and 2026 features a diverse array of massive projects, including S. Shankar's *Game Changer*, *They Call Him OG*, *Daaku Maharaaj*, Dhanush's *Idli Kadai*, the romantic thriller *Dacoit: A Love Story*, and the Hindi thriller *Drishyam - The Conclusion*. With a monumental filmography and five National Film Awards to his name, Prakash Raj remains an enduring powerhouse of Indian cinema.
Acting credits
5.3A clash of ideologies. One stands for the people, the other feeds on control. Their paths collided once before. Years later, a child’s silent fear ignites the past, drawing a former police officer into a battle far bigger than personal revenge.
Jana Nayagan
2026
7.5The blood-soaked land of Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) has a new overlord now - Rocky, whose name strikes fear in the heart of his foes. His allies look up to Rocky as their Savior, the government sees him as a threat to law and order; enemies are clamoring for revenge and conspiring for his downfall. Bloodier battles and darker days await as Rocky continues on his quest for unchallenged supremacy.
K.G.F: Chapter 2
2022
6.9Devara, a fearless man from a coastal region, embarks on a perilous journey into the treacherous world of the sea to safeguard the lives of his people. Unbeknownst to him, his brother Bhaira is plotting a conspiracy against him. As events unfold, Devara passes on his legacy to his mild-mannered and timid son, Varada.
Devara: Part 1
2024
6.6Betrayed by his better half, a man is convicted for a crime he didn't commit. Once free, he hunts her down in pursuit of vengeance, as their stories intertwine with a series of robberies.
Dacoit
2026
7.6Pandu is a contract killer and will accept any contract provided the amount is right. The police want him for questioning, while the underworld needs him to silence their opponents. No one really knows this assassin's background. It is only Pandu who knows his real identity, and he has no intention of sharing it with anyone.
Pokiri
2006
5.2Based on the journey of the legendary Telugu actor, filmmaker and ex-Chief Minister Late Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri.
N.T.R: Kathanayakudu
2019
NRFollows Rudhra's perilous adventures as ancient Varanasi stands on the brink of catastrophe from a looming asteroid in 2027 CE, unfolding across multiple timelines and distant continents.
Vāranāsi
2027
NRGet ready for another rollercoaster of laughter with the iconic gang.
Golmaal 5
2026
5.5After Venky, Varun also gets married thinking he can keep the wife in control but both of them gets frustrated with the marital life which generates fun.
F2: Fun and Frustration
2019
6.8With the Parliament under siege, India’s first super soldier Arjun Shergill is tasked to get hold of the terrorists in time, save the Prime Minister from their clutches and stop a dirty bomb from exploding and destroying Delhi.
Attack
2022
7.8Afreen, a rebellious Pakistani student sets ablaze the car of an Indian in London. Angered Afreen returns to Pakistan to ask for money from her grandfather that she has to pay in a month's time as damages. However, she gets to know that he is no more and the only thing he has left for her is a letter-delivering task, written by Ram to Sita. As Afreen sets out to find Ram, there begins her journey of discovering the secret behind the 20-year-old letter.
Sita Ramam
2022
NRSunil is a carefree college student. Swapna is his classmate. Sunil loves Swapna and vice versa. Jagan is the father and the only parent of Swapna, who is obsessed with the well-being of his beloved daughter. Sunil and Jagan have a few showdowns. Jagan do not like the attitude of Sunil. When Swapna confides Jagan that she is in love, he is visibly delighted. His excitement becomes a short-lived one as he realizes later that his daughter's choice is none but the cockish Sunil.
Preminchedi Endukamma
1999
NRA devoted mother whose life is shattered when her 12-year-old daughter goes missing. Desperate for answers, she turns to the police for help, but as the investigation unfolds, unexpected twists begin to deepen the mystery.
S. Saraswathi
2026
5.3A youngster, who does anything for money, avenges on those who killed the family of Niharika.
Oosaravelli
2011
6.8An aspiring football star desperately seeks a way to travel to England to play for a famous team, but his journey leads him to a village waging a bloody conflict.
Champion
2025
NRYears after outsmarting the police, Vijay Salgaonkar's past resurfaces when a new evidence threatens to expose his secret. As the investigation reopens, he must outwit the system once again to save his family.
Drishyam: The Conclusion
2026
5.3A man protects his best friend's widow and her children from a lot of criminal outlays who have murdered their father
Giri
2004
Ananthakrishnan, coming from a conservative and rich Brahmin family, falls in love at first sight with Dhanam, a beautiful prostitute. Soon Ananthu proposes to her and she says that she will marry him if his family accepts her knowing her past. Cunning astrologer of Ananthu's family is lusting after her & plots his own agenda with Dhanam using this.
Dhanam
2008
Rathi is a happily married woman and at the professional level also she is doing good as a music video director. Her husband is actually a criminal, but hides his doings from his wife.
Chinna Chinna Kannile
2000
5.5With the arrival of electricity in the region under the British rule, the Odiyan clan that possesses the supernatural powers to assume animal form find it difficult to survive as they are ruthlessly captured and killed by the British. How the last Odiyan tries to save his clan with his stealth attacks, forms the crux.
Odiyan
2018
7.4Unable to tolerate society's injustices and devastated by rejection from the woman he loves, a meek lawyer develops a split personality: one side a vengeful vigilante killer punishing evildoers, the other a dashing playboy capable of winning her heart. Complications arise when the three sides begin to collide.
Anniyan
2005
3.8Trained by a religious martial arts guru, Badri becomes the protector of Badrinath temple and tries to revive Alakananda's faith in God, unaware of the fact that she has fallen for him.
Badrinath
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Goodachari 2
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4.3Sirish belongs to a well to do family which is headed by Prakash Raj. Things in his family get disturbed when Srirish’s brother loves and marries a middle class girl against his father’s will. In this crunch situation, Sirish falls in love with a yet another middle class girl called Anu(Lavanya) and reveals about this to his father. An upset Prakash Raj, gives him a piece of his advice and asks him to back off from the relationship. An adamant Sirish, challenges his father that he will win his love by not using his family name. In this process, he woos Anu and right when the time things start getting positive, Anu’s father arranges her marriage with some one else.Rest of the story is as to how Sirish manages to convince both Anu’s parents and his and finally comes out victorious.
Srirastu Subhamastu
2016
Behind the camera
7.7A musician's love towards a stubborn hearing and speech impaired woman makes her eventually realize that there is more to her life than she previously thought.
Mozhi
2007
Chellapandi, a communist, all of a sudden turns spiritual and is made the priest of his village. Mayilu, who loves Chellapandi, weaves a plot to elope with him. Whether she succeeds in this attempt and what happens to her life is what Mayilu is all about.
Mayilu
2012
A dreaded terrorist's attempt at fleeing the country forever is foiled by the police and his brother is killed in the shootout. He then employs four out-of-work youths to hijack a plane.
Naam
2003
5.7A 14 year old boy aspires to become an attacking wicketkeeper-batsman, where his father wants his son to become a MBA graduate.
Dhoni
2012
5.7A 14 year old boy aspires to become an attacking wicketkeeper-batsman, where his father wants his son to become a MBA graduate.
Dhoni
2012
5.8Kannaiah, a struggling actor, steals a script written by Saravanan and gains fame. Saravanan decides to make another movie but faces a lot of challenges when he is forced to cast Kannaiah.
Velli Thirai
2008
7.9Raghuraman, father of a grown daughter meets Sudhakar, father of a toddler at a playground. Raghuraman recounts the story of his own relationship with his daughter through the years, including his difficulties with accepting her marriage.
Abhiyum Naanum
2008
6.3When terrorists hijack a plane from Chennai, a struggle with the pilots damages the engine forcing them to make an emergency landing in Tirupati. NSG commando Ravi is entrusted with rescue operations.
Gaganam
2011
6.9A middle-aged Tukaram is passionate about food and archaeology but it’s a misplaced call from Madhura that adds the tadka to his life. While love simmers, Nicole and Sidharth’s story spices up too.
Tadka
2022
6.9A middle-aged Tukaram is passionate about food and archaeology but it’s a misplaced call from Madhura that adds the tadka to his life. While love simmers, Nicole and Sidharth’s story spices up too.
Tadka
2022
5.5Inidhu Inidhu depicts the happy college days of a group of undergraduate students. Freshmen Siddhu (Adith), Aravind alias Tyson (Narayan), Vimal (Vimal), Shankar (Shravan), Madhu (Reshmi), Aparna aka Appu and Jiya join an upmarket college in the city. Each of them comes from different states of the country. They are ragged by the seniors at the college which makes them bond with each other. Eventually, Siddhu falls for Madhu, Tyson falls for his senior Sravanthi, fashionably called Shravs (Sonia), who is not receptive. The rest of the film is how the four couples get closer during their four-year course, peppered with pangs of jealousy, separated, reconciliation before going their separate ways upon graduation.
Inidhu Inidhu
2010
2.0Valluvanar is an upright political leader in Tamil Nadu much respected for his honesty and uprightness. And he refuses to compromise on this trait even when his only son Kamban finds himself in jail for no fault of his. The opposition party takes advantage of the situation and bails out Kamban, who joins this party much to his father's embarrassment. The media laps it up sensationalizing it further. Then Kamban decides to leave the country until things cool down. Only his mother Vasuki with whom he is close is aware of this plan. Kamban arrives at Sri Lanka where he be-friend's Banerjee, a Bengali and stays with him. One day he finds a Tamil book on the beach which he traces to Shilpa the owner of the book, who is a college student preparing for the civil services examination. The film juggles between reality and fiction, where Theepori, the fictitious father image of Kamban advises him to fall in love. The rest of the story is about the emotional conflict between her career and love.
Poi
2006
6.3A wrong number leads Kalidasa and Gowri to converse with each other, and soon they discover their love for 'kutty dosa'. Eventually, they fall in love but confusion and misunderstandings ensue.
Un Samayal Arayil
2014
6.3A wrong number leads Kalidasa and Gowri to converse with each other, and soon they discover their love for 'kutty dosa'. Eventually, they fall in love but confusion and misunderstandings ensue.
Un Samayal Arayil
2014
6.3A wrong number leads Kalidasa and Gowri to converse with each other, and soon they discover their love for 'kutty dosa'. Eventually, they fall in love but confusion and misunderstandings ensue.
Un Samayal Arayil
2014
Naanu Nanna Kanasu is the depiction of a father’s narration of his own coming-of-age, with the birth and growth of his daughter. It is a remake of tamil movie, “Abhiyum Naanum”.Uthappa (Prakash Raj), who encounters a chance to meet a young father Jayanth (Ramesh Aravind) and his daughter, on his morning walk. As they introduce themselves to each other, going past the hilarity of the nature of their rendezvous Uthappa begins to narrate to Jayanth how it was to bring up his own daughter, Kanasu (Amoolya).Sharing the better half of this journey of Uthappa’s, is his wife and soulmate Kalpana (Sithara) who is seen to be the saner voice in the Uthappa household. Being quite literally, a letter from a father to a daughter, the story stands testament to the oft-quoted
Naanu Nanna Kanasu
2010
5.5Two youngsters meet in a marriage hall and fight with each other and thereafter every-time they meet they end up fighting with each other. But there comes a time when this animosity turns to love.
Kanda Naal Mudhal
2005
8.0Azhagiya Theeye movie revolves around Chandran (Prasanna) is approached by a girl Nandhini (Navya Nair) to break her proposed marriage with a software engineer Aravind (Prakash Raj) from USA. She is forced by her father who is a thug (Pyramid Natarajan) to marry this guy. Later Chandran hatches a plan by which he meets Aravind at a restaurant and tells him that Nandhini is madly in love with him.
Azhagiya Theeye
2004
6.5Bhujanga, a Gulf-returned tyrant and theatre enthusiast, is a known man in his town. His family life isn't the most cordial, given his temperament. He's forced to spend a night and a day locked in an empty shop with a sex worker. What happens then...
Idolle Ramayana
2016
6.5Bhujanga, a Gulf-returned tyrant and theatre enthusiast, is a known man in his town. His family life isn't the most cordial, given his temperament. He's forced to spend a night and a day locked in an empty shop with a sex worker. What happens then...
Idolle Ramayana
2016
6.5Bhujanga, a Gulf-returned tyrant and theatre enthusiast, is a known man in his town. His family life isn't the most cordial, given his temperament. He's forced to spend a night and a day locked in an empty shop with a sex worker. What happens then...
Idolle Ramayana
2016
7.8Arjun begins a search for Shankar, his friend who had eloped with his lover from his village, and uncovers shocking truths...
Gouravam
2013