VENKAT PRABHU
Hi friends in this article let us see about one of the most entertaining director in the tamil film industry.Guess who it's none other than Venkat Prabhu.To start with let's see about his movies first is Chennai 600028 followed by Saroja and at present Goa which is under production. Venkat Prabhu is one of the popular celebrity in the tamil film industry.
Before going into his profile have to tell about his family. Well Venkat Prabhu is the son of the famous director-cum-music director Gangai Amaran.His brother Premji Amaran (Actor, Singer & Music Director) and Paarthi Bhaskar(Director of Pambara Kannaley), sister Vasuki Bhaskar(costume designer), Cousins Yuvan Shankar Raja (Music Director), Karthik Raja (Music Director) and Bhavatharini (Singer) and at last his uncle Ilayaraja (Music Director) are all part of the tamil film industry. Venkat his married to Raaji and his daughter's name Shivani.
Venkat Prabhu was born in 7th November, 1975 in Chennai.After completing his music degree from Trinity College of Music in London, he wanted to become a music director like his father but he couldn't succeed in becoming a music director and started his career in the tamil film industry as a singer.He acted in a couple of tv shows like Kundakka Mandakka which was directed by his father and Idho Boopalam and Thedathey Tholaindhu Povai. He also directed one comedy show in Singapore.Then he slowly moved into acting line as a character artist rather than doing hero roles.He acted in about ten movies before he could direct his debut movie.Now let us see the movies under the direction of Venkat Prabhu.
His debut movie was Chennai 600028 which was produced by his close friend S. P. B. Charan in 2007.The movie is a sports related movie with romance and comedy mixed in it.The cast of Chennai 600028 is too long for the reason that it doesn't focus on a single hero concept.The movie features Premji Amaran,Jai, Shiva,Nithin Sathya, Prasanna, Aravind Akash, Ajay Raj, Ranjith, Arun, Karthik and Vijay Vasanth in the lead roles along with Vijayalakshmi and Christine Zedek making their debut movies.The main theme of Chennai 600028 is about two street cricket teams in the names of Sharks and Royapuram Rockers fighting of who is strong among them.The movie also covers love, fight, comedy and friendship.The music of Chennai 600028 by Yuvan Shankar Raja and background score by Premji Amaran was mind-blowing.The songs in the movie rocked especially 'Jalsa' song and 'Ulle Vaa' song at their best.But the song that rocked the whole Tamil Nadu was 'Saroja Saman Nikalo'. Chennai 600028 was one of the biggest blockbusters in 2007 with a collection of approximately $2 million at the box office.No one expected the movie to become a blockbuster in the box office for the reasons like the movie dealing with debutants and taking street cricket as the main theme.This movie won the Vijay Award for Best Find of the Year.
Venkat Prabhu's second movie was 'SAROJA' produced by T.Shiva under the banner Amma Creations and distributed by Pyramid Saimira.The movie was also made in Telugu. After the success of Chennai 600028 Venkat Prabhu decided to go with comedy based movie.But this time his second movie "Saroja" was a thriller based comedy movie with SPB.Charan, Shiva, Premji Amaren and Vaibhav Reddy in the lead role along with Vega Tamotia.The movie also stars Jayaram, Prakash Raj, Sampath Raj, Nagendran and Kajal Aggarwal.The movie is all the happenings in a day that coincides with each another.On side it deals with four friends who find their way to a mysterious place by a accident.On the other side daughter of a industrialist is being kidnapped.This two incidents happens separately and they travel in their direcation.The remaining half of the movie tells how friends happen to meet the girl and find their way out of the mysterious place. The camera by Sakthi Saravanan was excellent and the major part of the movie was taken in night time.Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja was superb especially for the background.The sound track has six songs out of which 'Kodaana Kodi', 'Nimirindhu Nil' songs was mindblowing.It was released in 2008.
Venkat Prabhu's third movie is 'GOA' which is under production and it is expected to release in Jan 2010.Goa is produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth under the banner Ocher Studios.The audio is expected to release on dec 23. From the director, the movie will be a fun filled comedy movie with lots of twists in it.The movie stars Jai, Premji Amaran, Aravind Akash, Vaibhav, Sneha, Piaa Bajpai and Melanie Marie Jobstreibitzer in the lead roles.It also has Nayantara and Simbu doing a guest role in the movie.Music is by Yuvan Shankar Raja.Venkat Prabhu goes with the same technical team as in his previous movie 'Saroja'.Let us hope for another blockbuster as a new year gift from Venkat Prabhu.
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