Praveen Prem

Praveen Prem
Born (1984-04-21) 21 April 1984
Nationality India
Occupation Actor

Praveen Prem (21 April 1984 – ) is a south Indian film actor[1] who began his acting career in 2010 in the Malayalam language film Kadha Thudarunnu.[2] His first major role in Malayalam cinema came through the movie Tournament – Play & Replay directed by Lal in which he played Usman Ali.[3] Prem next appeared as several comedy characters in Malayalam movies, taking on the role of the hero Kiran in the 2013 movie Crocodile Love Story.[4] Prem made his debut in the Tamil film industry in 2014 after director O.S. Ravi cast him as the male lead in the movie Dummy Tappasu.[1][5][6]

Prem appeared as one of five idiots in K. S. Bava's 2012 comedy Idiots.[3] His character cycle in the movie 7th Day[7] garnered praise from critics and the film went on to become the first 2014 Malayalam blockbuster.

Background

A native of Maruthoorkadavu, Trivandrum in the Indian state of Kerala, after secondary education Prem obtained a certificate in film and video editing from the state-owned Keltron. He started his film career as an assistant editor to south Indian film editor Mahesh Narayanan in 2008. He assisted him for one year on several feature and advertising films. After he left editing, Prem joined Soorya Krishnamoorthy to become part of his Soorya Theatre Group, appearing in amateur theatre plays in 2009. The two plays in which he appeared for Soorya—Pulari and Sookshmacharcha— helped in his transition to movie acting and were staged all over Kerala and Muscat. He received his first movie approach from Malayalam director Sathyan Anthikad in 2010.

He became a television anchor in 2013 on the cookery show Pacchamulaku shown on Media One TV.[8]

Filmography

No. Year Film Role Co-stars Director
1 2010 Kadha Thudarunnu Harichandran Jayaram, Mamtha Mohandas Sathyan Anthikad
2 2010 Tournament – Play & Replay[7] Usman Ali Fahadh Faasil, Roopa Manjari, Manu Lal
3 2011 Snehaveedu Balan Mohan Lal, Padmapriya, Biju Menon Sathyan Anthikad
4 2011 Ideal Couples Vineeth, Thilakan, Usha Uthup, Nasser, Lakshmimenon, Kalabhavan Shajon, Aliakbar
5 2011 Mullasery Madhavan Kutty Tintu Mon Anoop Menon, Kumar Nanda
6 2013 Sim Unnipilla Deepak Parambol, Ann Augustin Diphan
7 2012 Idiots[7] Mani Asif Ali, Baburaj Bawa
8 2013 Rebecca Uthup Kizhakkemala Unni Sidharth Bharathan, Ann Augustin Sunder Das
9 2013 Crocodile Love Story[8] Kiran Manikuttan, Avanthika Mohan, Asokan, Prem Kumar, Anoop Ramesh
10 2014 7th Day[7] Cyril Samual aka Cycle Prithviraj, Anumohan, Tovino Thomas, Vinay Fort, Janani Iyer, Joy Thomas Syamdhar
11 2015 Dummy Tappasu [5] Sree Ramya Pandian, Niranjan Venki, Mime Gopi, John Vijay O. S. Ravi

Cameo appearances

No. Year Film Role Co-stars Director
1 2011 Fathers Day Friend Lal, Revathi Kalavoor Ravikumar
2 2011 Pulival Pattanam Driver Jaghathy Sreekumar Asok
3 2012 Hero Prithviraj Sukumaran, Bala Diphan
4 2012 Annayum Resoolum Kammath Fahadh Faasil, Andreah Rajeev Ravi
5 2012 StreetLight Aparna, Irshad Sankar

References

  1. 1 2 "Actor Praveen Prem as hero". Indiaglitz.com. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Praveen Prem Profile". Metromatinee.com. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Praveenprem is back as an idiot". Times of India. 22 May 2012.
  4. ↑ "Praveen Prem to play the lead in a romantic comedy". Chennaipatrika. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  5. 1 2 Srikanth Deva (Director) (2014). Music director Deva returns with Dummy Tappasu (Tamil movie) by Srikanth Deva (Daily motion and Tamil local news). Tamil Nadu: Daily motion. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Deva returns with Dummy Tappasu with Praveen as hero" (in Tamil). OneIndia.in. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "List of Notable Malayalam films acted by Praveen...". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  8. 1 2 "A new innings for Praveen Prem". The New Indian Express. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
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