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Prashanth, Son of veteran film actor, producer and director Thiagarajan. Popularly known as "Top Star", Kathal Ilavarasan (the prince of love). He remains the hot favourite among the youngsters and is the heart throb of teeny boppers. He made his debut a decade back, in 1990, when he starred in Vaigasi Poranthachu the film fared well at the box office. Chembaruthi, directed by Selvamani, followed and that film gave a strong footing to Prashant in Tamil filmdom. Vanna Vanna Pookal by Balu Mahendra won the best regional film award at the national level and Prasanth came into reckoning thereafter.

Prashanth led a sheltered life and was so innocent that he did not even know how to find his way around Chennai. His entire career was managed by his father Thiagarajan who himself is a producer-actor-director. A Bharathanatyam exponent, trained in several martial arts like kung-fu, Karate (obtained BLACK BELT), silambam, kalari, gymnastics, roller skating, horse riding, rowing & yachting. Prashanth is a high board diver and long distance sea swimmer. He has penchant for music. Plays many musical instruments, passed third grade in music-piano in the TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON.

Prashanth has many successful films to his credit in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. His immense talent and dedication has won him many laurels and respect from his fans and peers alike in and around the industry. He is known to be one of the highly talented actors of this genre. He has acted (worked) in the films directed by popular directors such as Mani Rathnam, Balu Mahendra, S. Shankar, R.K. Selvamani, Agathiyan, Vasanth ....

Profile

Name : Prashanth
Nick name : Top Star
Date of birth : 6th April 1973
Birth place : Chennai, India
Education : Course in Computer Graphics and Multimedia
Hobbies : Tennis, Internet Surfing, Listening to songs, Reading Books, Playing music instruments, Snow Bowling, Karate practice, Horse Riding, Swimming , Chess and Playing Billiards.
Special talents : Bharatham, Kuchipudi, Manipuri , Russian ballet, Karate, Silambam, Kung-fu, Kalari, Horse Riding, Swimming and Skatting.

Family

Father - Thiyagarajan (Actor and Director)
Mother - Shanthi Thiagarajan
Spouse - Grihalakshmi (tied knot on 1st September 2005)
Younger sister - Preeti

Early career

He was booked in a series of films in early 90's but the films he had worked in during this phase did not help him much to stabilize himself. Sathya Movies 'Enga Thambi', Thirupur Mani's 'Unakkaha Piranthen', Manivannan's 'Raasa Maghan', Manoj Kumar's 'Senthamizh Selvan' and Selvamani's 'Kanmani'. All of these films proved to be duds at the box office. The bombing of these movies put Prashant in a fix. Mighty man Mani Ratnam pulled out the sinking Prashanth from the quagmire and cast him as his hero in 'Thiruda Thiruda'. Alas, the well made romantical, with starling visuals, flopped to the dismay of the director.

Prashant saved his career by acting in an offbeat Malayalam film 'Perunthachan', which won the best film award in Kerala and he started to appear in Telugu films like 'Tholi Muddu' (Divya Bharathi), 'Prema Vijayam', 'Prema Sikaram', 'Premapattam', 'Allariprema' as well as in Hindi films like 'I Love You' and 'Anto Ka Prem Yudh'.

Shankar signed him up for his multi-lingual 'Jeans' and for 3 years Prashanth did not sign any other film. The shrewd career decision paid off and the film 'Jeans' celebrated 100 days run in Singapore and Malaysia and silver jubilee runs in ten theatres in Chennai. Prashanth was catapulted to the big league.

Filmography

Debut : Vaigasi Porandhachu (Release date - 16-09-1990)
Languages acted in : Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam

Awards

Kalaimamani award from Government of Tamilnadu,
Best New Appearance award of year (1990) from Cinema Express
Best actor award of year (1998 ) from Roja Magazine

Movies in Tamil

1990 - Vaigasi Porandhachu
1992 - Vanna Vanna Pookkal
1992 - Chembaruthi
1992 - Unakkaga Piranthen
1993 - Enga Thambi
1993 - Thiruda Thiruda
1994 - Sendhamizh Selvan
1994 - Kanmani
1994 - Rasa Magan
1995 - Aanazhagan
1996 - Kalloori Vaasal (guest)
1996 - Krishna
1997 - Mannava
1998 - Jeans
1998 - Kannedhirey Thondrinal
1998 - Kadhal Kavidhai
1999 - Poomagal Oorvalam
1999 - Jodi
1999 - Hello
1999 - Aasaiyil Or Kadidham
2000 - Good Luck
2000 - Appu
2000 - Parthen Rasithen
2001 - Majnu
2001 - Piriyadha Varam Vendum
2001 - Star
2001 - Chocolate
2002 - Thamizh
2002 - Virumbugiren
2003 - Winner
2004 - Jai
2004 - Shock
2005 - Aayudham
2005 - London
2006 - Adaikkalam (under production)
2006 - Thagappansami (under production)
2006 - Enna Vilai Alagey (under production)
2006 - Kaattaan (under production)
2006 - Sakarae (under production)
2006 - Police (under production)
2006 - Jambavan (under production)
2006 - Petrol (under production)
2006 - Runway (under production)
2006 - Pulan Visaranai 2 (under production)

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