Nagendra Prasad (born 19 December 1975) is an

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dance

choreographer Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A chor ...

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

and director who works in

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and

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

films. He is the youngest son of dance master

Mugur Sundar Mugur Sundar (born 31 October 1935) is a dance choreographer, film director and actor in South Indian cinema. Early life Sundar was born in Muguru, a village located in Mysore district, Karnataka. He has three sons, Prabhu Deva, Raju Sund ...

, and younger brother to popular cine artistes

Prabhu Deva Prabhu Deva (born 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer and actor who has worked predominantly in Tamil language, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu language, Telugu language films also appeared in few Kannada and Malayal ...

and

Raju Sundaram Basuva Raju Sundaram (born 6 September 1968) is an Indian dance choreographer, actor and film director, who works primarily in Tamil, Telugu films also appeared in Kannada and Malayalam films. He appeared as an actor in films like ''Jeans'' (19 ...

Career and personal life

He was most noted for his appearance in the song "

Humma Humma "Antha Arabic Kadaloram" (), better known as "Humma Humma", is a 1995 Indian Tamil language song composed by A. R. Rahman for the romantic drama film ''Bombay'' (1995) by Mani Ratnam, and sung by Rahman, Remo Fernandes and Swarnalatha. Recept ...

", from the film ''

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''. He made his lead debut with the Kannada movie '' Chitra'', opposite

Rekha Vedavyas Rekha, also known as Akshara, is a former Indian actress, who predominantly acts in Kannada films and also appears in Telugu and Tamil films. While pursuing modelling, she made her acting debut in the 2001 Kannada film '' Chitra'' and has sin ...

. He also acted in the Kannada movie ''

Manasella Neene ''Manasella Neene'' () is a 2002 Indian Kannada-language romance film directed by Mugur Sundar, a choreographer marking his debut in film direction. The film stars his youngest son Nagendra Prasad and Gayathri Raguram (in her Kannada debut) with ...

'', which was directed by his father – choreographer Mugur Sundaram. He starred in several Tamil films as the hero's friend such as '' Kushi'' (2000), ''

Ghilli ''Ghilli'' ( ) is a 2004 Indian Tamil-language sports action film directed by Dharani and produced by A. M. Rathnam. It is a remake of the Telugu film '' Okkadu'' (2003), written and directed by Gunasekhar, with few changes made to the st ...

'' (2004) and ''

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'' (2021). He has also acted in a tele-serial called "Maya Machindra" on

STAR Vijay Star Vijay is an Indian Tamil language general entertainment pay television channel owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. The channel telecasts programmes such as serials, reality shows & Tamil films. History T ...

. He took part in ''Jodi'' number 1 season 7. He was eliminated in the semi-finals. He has a dance school, MSM dance school named after his father. His mother tongue is Kannada. He was married to Hemalatha.

Filmography

Choreographer

*''All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.''

Actor

;Films ;Television *''Maya Machindra'' - Vijay TV *''

Five Six Seven Eight ''Five Six Seven Eight'', also known as 5678, is an Indian Tamil-language teen dance drama series directed by A. L. Vijay, Prasanna JK, and Mrudhula Sridharan and produced by A.L. Alagappan and Hitesh Thakkur, starring Ditya Bhande, Nagendra ...

'' - Zee5

Director

*'' Lucky Man'' (2022; Kannada)

Dancer

References

External links

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