Prabhu Deva Sundaram

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location = flagicon|India Chennai, India
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othername = Prabhu Deva
yearsactive = 1987 -
spouse = Ramlatha
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occupation = Actor,
Film Director,
Choreographer

Prabhu Deva Sundaram (Tamil: பிரபு தேவா சுந்தரம்) better known simply as Prabhu Deva was born on 3 April, 1973 in Chennai. He was brought up in Chennai and is a choreographer, actor and film director in India. He is popularly called "India's Michael Jackson" for his fast dance movements.fact|date=September 2008

Personal life

Prabhu Deva grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is the son of the dance master Sundaram, and dancing is his passion. His brother is Raju Sundaram. From choreography he went on to establish himself as an actor. He became a star in Kollywood with his impressive dance steps. His first movie as a dance director was "Vetri Vizha". He has since choreographed over 100 movies. Before starting as a full time actor, he did some song sequences in films. His first movie as a hero was in "Kadhalan" with actress Nagma. Prabhu Deva's success can be attributed more to his dancing than anything else. He has a significant fan following in the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film industry. He acted alongside his brothers in the movie 123.He is married to Ramlatha, a former dancer in his troupe and has four children, all sons. Prabhu deva is also a keen animal lover and keeps 2 dogs as pets.

Other appearances

*Prabhu Deva was also noticed when he made brief appearances in solo items such as April Mayile in Idhayam (1991), Lallaku Doldapi Ma in Suriyan (1992), Chinna Rasave in Walter Vetrivel (1993) and Chikku Bukku Raiyle in Gentleman (1993).
*He danced with Madhuri Dixit for the song Que Sera Sera in the movie Pukar.
*He acted along with Lawrence Raghavendra in the hit movie Style.
*He has danced with Apache Indian in the song "No Problem" in the film "Love Birds".
*He made a special appearance in "Pokkiri" (which was directed by himself) with Joseph Vijay in the song "Aadungada".

Awards

*He is a two-time winner of the National Award for Best Choreographer for the film "Minsara Kanavu" in Tamil and "Lakshya" in Hindi.
*Prabhu Deva went onto win a Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award.
*He won an award for the film "Pokkiri" for Best Director.aha

Benny Lava

Benny Lava is an Internet meme that was started when the video for Prabhu Deva's song, "Kalluri Vaanil" from the Indian Tamil movie, "Pennin Manathai Thottu", was uploaded to YouTube by mondegreen director "Buffalax" [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw Video of song with English subtitles that states how does it sound like in English on YouTube] ] . The video was edited to include subtitles of the written English approximation of the video's original language's sound. In this case, he "translated" the Tamil "-dha nilaavo" into English as "Benny Lava". Since then, Prabhu Deva is commonly known on the internet as "Benny Lava". The video has occasionally been referred to as "the web's craziest dance clip" or "Crazy Indian music video" and has been made into a mobile phone ring tone [http://www.google.com/search?q=bennylava+ring+tone] .

Filmography

As actor

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