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Praveen Prem

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Praveen Prem
Born (1984-04-21) 21 April 1984 (age 40)
NationalityIndian
OccupationActor

Praveen Prem (born 21 April 1984) is an Indian 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 garnered praise from critics and the film went on to become the first 2014 Malayalam blockbuster.

Background

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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.[7]

Filmography

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Films
Year Film Role Notes
2010 Kadha Thudarunnu Harichandran
Tournament – Play & Replay Usman Ali
2011 Snehaveedu Balan
Ideal Couples
Fathers Day Friend
Pulival Pattanam Driver
2012 Hero
StreetLight Room Boy
Mullassery Madhavan Kutty Nemom P. O. Baiju Prathap
Idiots Mani
2013 Annayum Rasoolum Kammath
Sim Unnipilla
Rebecca Uthup Kizhakkemala Unni
Crocodile Love Story Kiran
2014 7th Day Cyril Samual aka Cycle
2015 Dummy Tappasu Sree Tamil film
ATM Bombay
2017 Tubelight Saba Tamil film
2020 Mane Number 13 Karthick Kannada-Tamil film
13aam Number Veedu

Television

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Year Show Role Channel Notes
2012 Daivathinte Swantham Devootty Devu's brother in law Mazhavil Manorama TV series
2013-2014 Pachamulaku Host Media One Cookery show
2016-2018 Salt N Pepper Host Kaumudy TV
2020 Koodathayi Flowers (TV channel) TV series
2021 Varnappakittu Jaggu Surya TV
2021 Im the sorry Varun YouTube Web series
2022 Daya: Chentheeyil Chalicha Kumkumapottu Asianet TV series
2022 Bhagyalakshmi Prem Zee Keralam

References

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  1. ^ a b "Actor Praveen Prem as hero". IndiaGlitz.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Praveen Prem Profile". Metromatinee.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Praveenprem is back as an idiot". Times of India. 22 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Praveen Prem to play the lead in a romantic comedy". Chennaipatrika. Archived from the original on 25 March 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  5. ^ 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. ^ "A new innings for Praveen Prem". The New Indian Express. 16 July 2013. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
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