Uppalapati Prabahs Raju

by **kishore** Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:43 pm

Prabhas Raju Uppalapati (born October 23, 1976), popularly known as Prabhas is a Tollywood actor and the nephew of Tollywood star and politician Krishnam Raju Uppalapati.
He currently lives in Hyderabad, India. His father is U Suryanarayana
Raju and mother is Siva Kumari. He is one of three children. His
brother is Prabodh and sister is Pragathi.

by **kishore** Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:45 pm

Career

Prabhas started his movie career with Eshwar in 2002 about a poor boy falling in love with a rich girl. In 2003, he was seen as the lead in Raghavendra. Both did not do well at the box office.

Varsham (2004) reversed his fortunes. He was cast opposite Trisha Krishnan. The film went on to become a huge hit. Then he acted under the direction of B. Gopal in Adavi Ramudu, which miserably average at the box office. In Krishna Vamsi’s Chakram (2005) he played a cancer patient, which performed moderately at the box office. However Chatrapathi (2005), in which he played a rebel, with Shriya Saran was a monumental blockbuster.

The movies which followed like Pournami (2006), Yogi, Munna Bujjigadu (2008) however average flicks to leave an impact at the box office. (2007) and

In 2009 Prabhas was seen in Billa, which is a reworked telugu version of the hugely successful bollywood film Don. The movie stars Anushka Shetty and Namitha and also Hansika Motwani Krishnam Raju Uppalapati. The movie turned out to be a hit, giving Prabhas a much needed breather.

He is also known as Tollywood Hrithik. doing an item number. He shared screen space for the first time with his real life uncle, bounce

by **kishore** Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:07 pm

Filmography

Year................Film........................Director

2002 ...........Eeshwar ................Jayanth.c.paranji

2003......... Raghavendra.............. Suresh Krishna

2004 ............Varsham .....................Shoban
................Adavi ramudu ..................B.Gopal

2005 ............Chakram .................Krishna Vamshi
.................Chatrapathi ................. S.S.Rajamouli

2006 ............Pournami.................... Prabhu Deva

2007 ..............Yogi ......................... V.V.Vinayak
.....................Munna ....................Vamshi Paidipalli

2008 ...........Bujjigadu......................Puri Jagannath

2009............. Billa............................ Mehar Ramesh
................Ek-Niranjan....................... Puri Jagannath

2010 .......... Darling............................ Karunakaran
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