Born as: Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhas Raju Uppalapati
Age: 37
DoB: October 23
Star sign: Scorpio
School and college: Studied at DNR School in Bhimavaram (Andhra Pradesh) and graduated with a BTech degree from Sri Chaitanya College, Hyderabad
Debut: Eeshwar (2002)
Noteworthy films: Varsham (2004), Chakram (2005), Chatrapathi (2005, directed by Bahubali man S.S. Rajamouli), Billa (2009), Darling (2010),
Mr Perfect (2011), Rebel (2012), Mirchi (2013), Bahubali: The Beginning (2015), Bahubali: The Conclusion (2017) Is known to fans as: “Darling Prabhas” after the super success of his 2010 film Darling
Favourite actor: Robert De Niro
Favourite director: Rajkumar Hirani. Prabhas has reportedly watched Munna Bhai MBBS and 3 Idiots 20 times each!
Favourite book: Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead
Favourite sport: Volleyball
Favourite dish: Chicken biryani
Status: Single. But there is a buzz of Prabhas getting married to someone from outside the film industry this year
Filmi link-up: Ileana d’Cruz
Close friends in films: Actors Gopichand and Allu Arjun. His Bahubali enemy Rana Daggubati is now a buddy
Is the first south Indian actor: To have his wax statue at Madame Tussauds. Prabhas’s wax likeness — in his Bahubali avatar — has just been unveiled at Madame Tussauds Bangkok .
In Bollywood: Prabhas made an appearance in Prabhudheva’s 2014 film Action Jackson, starring Ajay Devgn and Sonakshi Sinha. Remember the hunk showing off his moves with Sonakshi in the song Punjabi mast?
Prabhas in Bahubali
Signed up for five years to shoot the two Bahubali films. During this time, Prabhas didn’t say yes to any other film.
Prabhas’s physique in Bahubali is the result of a lot of hard work. Trained by Mr World 2010 Lakshman Reddy, Prabhas ate as many as 40 half-boiled eggs blended with protein powder every day to get that bod. The producers of Bahubali reportedly spent Rs 1.5 crore to import body-building equipment for Prabhas. He trained for six hours every day and ate six meals daily.
Was reportedly paid a neat Rs 24 crore for the Bahubali films. This makes him the highest paid actor in the Telugu film industry.
A Prabhas fan? In his films, you will know him as…
ANGRY YOUNG MAN
Whether it is Mirchi or Rebel, Prabhas excels at playing the angry young man and the avenging angel. In Mirchi, he is a hothead who can single-handedly kill 20 goons when his family is threatened in a feud between two villages. In Rebel, his father is betrayed and killed by his uncle and Prabhas’s character (Rishi) seeks revenge. He is intense, super intense.
JAW-DROPPING ACTION STAR
Bahubali is not the only film you’ll see Prabhas pull off the seemingly impossible. Many of his action sequences are impossible feats — he takes down hundreds of men alone, uses one man to bring 10 down, stops a speeding car in its tracks by landing on its bonnet, escapes cars with three guns trained on him leaving behind a trail of dead bodies… and let us not even get into how far the bodies fly and how many times they spin in the air from just one Prabhas punch!
DIE-HARD ROMANTIC
Prabhas has done his fair share of romance in movies like Darling and Mr Perfect, most of them with two heroines — one who is meant to be the girl, and the other who he thinks is the girl/ who loves him. He is quite the charmer when he wants to be and has good comic timing.
