Prabhas

Film runs in the family for Prabhas: his father, Uppalapati Surya Narayana Raju, was a film producer, and the Telugu actor Krishnam Raju was his uncle. Born Uppalapati Venkata Suryanarayana Prabhas Raju in Chennai on 23 October 1979, he studied in Chennai, Bhimavaram and Hyderabad, took a B.Tech. and trained at Satyanand Film Institute in Visakhapatnam. Telugu cinema is his home base. He started with the drama Eeswar (2002), and the action romance Varsham (2004) was his first big success. Chatrapathi, Billa, Darling, Mr. Perfect and Mirchi were hits, and Mirchi (2013) won him the Nandi Award for Best Actor. Then came S. S. Rajamouli's Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), a dual role that carried him to audiences across India and abroad; the second film earned him the SIIMA Award for Best Actor – Telugu. The pan-India run continued with Saaho (2019), Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire (2023), where he played Devaratha, and Kalki 2898 AD (2024). He has featured on the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list since 2015. Two films are lined up: Fauzi, dated for 19 March 2027, in which he plays an Azad Hind Force soldier, and Spirit, now scheduled for 29 October 2027.