Prashant Narayanan

Prashant Narayanan
Born	(1969-03-31) 31 March 1969 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1992-present
Spouse(s)	Shona Chakravarty

Prashant Narayanan is an indian actor, known for his roles in films like Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II, Shadows of Time, Bombil and Beatrice, Via Darjeeling and Murder 2. He also worked in the movie called Bhatakti Tamanna. Certainly his big break came in the Bhatt banner film Murder 2.

Early and personal life

Born in Kerala, Narayanan grew up in Delhi. He was the state badminton champion and studied at the Kirori Mal College of Delhi University. There, he joined a theater group called Act 1, which included talented actors like Ashish Vidyarthi, Manoj Bajpai, Gajraj Rao and Girish Mishra.

Career

In 1991, Narayanan shifted to Mumbai with plans to start an ad agency. He started as assistant art director for films like Govind Nihalani's Rukmavati Ki Haveli, Subhash Ghai's Saudagar and Shyam Benegal's Sardari Begum. He also worked as a costume director for the TV series Chanakya. He started acting in plays again, and soon got several television shows like Parivartan, Farz, Gatha, Kabhi Kabhie, Jaane Kaha Mera Jigar Gaya Ji and Shagun.

Narayanan got his first movie role in 2002 in Hansal Mehta's Chhal as a hitman working in the Mumbai underworld. Though the film got mixed reviews from the critics, he was highly appraised for his portrayal of a hot-tempered, fun-loving goon. His next film was debutante director Shashanka Ghosh's Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II. Although Narayanan's role was similar to that in Chhal, the actor was once again appreciated by the critics widely.

In 2003, Narayanan was offered the lead role in the Academy Award winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film Shadows of Time. Narayanan played the role of Ravi in the film. Shadows of Time was challenging for him, as the film set in Calcutta, was to be in Bengali language. Narayanan, being a Malayalee, had to take lessons in Bengali to convincingly portray the role.

In 2009, he played a notable role in the show Bandini aired on NDTV Imagine. He played the antagonist in Peter Gaya Kaam Se which also stars Rajeev Khandelwal and Lekha Washington. In 2010, Narayanan appeared in Pravesh Bhardwaj's Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta, alongside Aruna Shields, where he portrayed the role of Ashwin Mehta, an artist and a painter who has an extra-martial affair with someone's wife, sometimes he even paints her nude picture.

In 2011, he appeared in the exceptional role of Dheeraj Pandey in the movie Murder 2, which is the sequel to the 2004 super-hit film Murder. In the movie, he played the role of a straight man turned eunuch and psychopath serial killer, who pretends as a customer to call-girls and kills them mercilessly. The movie turned out to be the "Blockbuster" and one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of 2011, where Narayanan's role was highly acclaimed by the critics and public alike.

In 2013, he acted in a Malayalam movie 'Edavappathy (The Monsoon)' directed by renowned Malayalam director Lenin Rajendran. Lenin Rajendran had a special role in his new film 'Edavappathy' that he had bookmarked for actor Jagathy Sreekumar, since he thought Jagathy was the only actor who could do justice to this very special role . Jagathy was hospitalized because of accident and Lenin awaited Jagathy, for his return to the screen. Thus, Lenin came across Prashant Narayanan and has been reported to have done an awesome job in 'Edavappathy' that has stunned the entire unit.

Awards and nominations

Prashant Narayanan has received the following recognitions:

Year	Awards	Film	Role	Category	Result
2012	Screen Awards	Murder 2	Dheeraj Pandey	Screen Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role	Won
	Stardust Awards			Stardust Award for Breakthrough Supporting Performance - Male	Nominated
	Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards			Best Performance in Negative Role	Nominated

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Channel
1996-97	Farz	Rajan
2001-04	Shagun	Sumer	Star Plus
2009-11	Bandini	Kanji Waghela	NDTV Imagine
2011-12	Phulwa	Bhavani	Colors TV
2014	Encounter (Indian TV series)	Shamsher Bhappali	Sony TV
2014-015	Pukaar	Dhanraj Rastogi	Life OK

Movies

     Pink indicates the films yet to be released

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India!	Sumer
2003	Chhal	Girish
2003	Mudda - The Issue	Pratap Singh
2003	Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II	Vishnu
2004	Shadows of Time	Ravi Gupta
2005	Instant Karma	Mo
2007	Game	Mario John Brigenza
2007	Bombil and Beatrice	Bombil
2007	Summer 2007	Ramoj Wagh
2007	Via Darjeeling	Kaushik Chatterjee
2009	The Good Friday	Bunty
2009	Bandini	Kandi Vagehla
2009	The White Elephant	Shabri
2009	Rang Rasiya	Shabri
2010	Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta	Ashwin Mehta
2010	Peter Gaya Kaam Se	Carlos
2010	Rasgulla	Prem Chopra
2010	Doors	Vikram Rana
2011	Yeh Saali Zindagi	Chhote
2011	Bhindi Bazaar	Fateh
2011	Murder 2	Dheeraj Pandey
2012	Bhatakti Tamanna / Coincidence Ki Talash	Aarav / Tarun Varghese
2012	Unnam	Tomy Eapen
2012	Cigarette Ki Tarah	Rajesh Fogat
2013	Mumbai Mirror	Manish
2013	X-The Killer's Theory	Under Production
2013	Main Nahi Anna	Under Production
2013	Dishkiyaoon	Mota Tony
2013	Edavappathy (The Monsoon)
2013	Issaq	Naxal Leader
2014	Dee Saturday Night
2014	Nedunchaalai	Maasanamuthu
2014	7th Day
2014	Amar Must Die	Mafia Don
2015	Mumbai Can Dance Saala	Saala
2015	Amma	CBI Officer Deven Bharti
2015	Manjhi - The Mountain Man	Jhumru
2015	Naan Thaan Siva	TBA	Filming
2015	Kaun Ho
2016	Vartamaan	Ashish Cholkar	Filming
2016	Fredrick	TBA	To be released

External links

• Prashant Narayanan at the Internet Movie Database