One of the highest-paid actors in Indian cinema, Prabhas has featured in Forbes Indias Celebrity 100 list three times since 2015 based on his income and popularity.
24 Facts About Prabhas
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Prabhas has received seven Filmfare Awards South nominations and is a recipient of a Nandi Award and a SIIMA Award.
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Prabhas made his acting debut with the 2002 Telugu drama Eeswar, and later attained his breakthrough with the action romance Varsham.
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Prabhas won the Nandi Award for Best Actor for his performance in the lattermost.
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Prabhas later reprised his role in its sequel, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, which became the first Indian film ever to gross over 1,000 crore in all languages in just ten days, and is the second-highest-grossing Indian film to date.
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Prabhas is the first Telugu actor to receive a wax sculpture at Madame Tussaud's wax museum.
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Prabhas was born in a Telugu family to film producer Uppalapati Surya Narayana Raju and Siva Kumari.
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Prabhas is the nephew of Telugu film actor Krishnam Raju.
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Prabhas did his schooling at Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, and at DNR High School, Bhimavaram.
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Prabhas then completed his intermediate education from Nalanda College, Hyderabad.
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In 2012, Prabhas starred in Rebel, an action film directed by Raghava Lawrence.
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Prabhas then made his Hindi cinema debut in 2014 in the item number "Punjabi Mast" from the film Action Jackson.
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Prabhas reprised his role in its sequel, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, which became the first Indian film ever to gross over 1,000 crore in all languages in just ten days, and is the second-highest-grossing Indian film to date.
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The success of Baahubali has propelled Prabhas to become a pan-Indian actor, receiving significant following in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages.
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In 2019, Prabhas starred alongside Shraddha Kapoor in the Sujeeth-directed action thriller Saaho.
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In 2022, Prabhas starred in the period romance film Radhe Shyam directed by Radha Krishna Kumar which received mixed-to-negative reviews.
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Prabhas started filming for Nag Ashwin's untitled sci-fi film, tentatively titled Project K in July 2021, starring alongside Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan.
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Prabhas started filming an untitled horror-comedy film directed by Maruthi in December 2022.
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Prabhas is committed to star in an untitled Mythri Movie Makers production, directed by Siddharth Anand.
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Prabhas was ranked second in Times' Most Desirable Men for the year 2017, and twelfth in 2018.
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Prabhas was then added to the Forever Desirable list of Hyderabad Times in 2019.
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Prabhas was the most searched actor on Google in Karnataka, for the year 2019.
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Prabhas was featured in the GQ in their listing of the most influential young Indians of 2017.
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In September 2020, Prabhas adopted 1650 acres of land in Khazipally Reserve Forest, and made additional donations for the development of the eco-park in the name of his late father.