Prabhu Mundkur

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Prabhu Mundkur
Born
Narasimha Prabhu Mundkur

(1988-12-05) 5 December 1988 (age 35)
NationalityIndian
Alma mater St. Aloysius College (Mangalore); University of Madras
OccupationActor
Years active2017–present
Spouse
Kavita Kudtarkar
(m. 2012)
Children3

Prabhu Mundkur is an Indian film actor who hails from Manipal. He started his career with Kannada television soap Kulavadhu in 2016. His movie debut happened in 2017 through Urvi, a critically acclaimed movie in the Kannada film industry.

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Early life and family

Prabhu Mundkur was born on 5 December 1988 to a Konkani speaking orthodox family in Manipal, in Udupi. [1] He completed his schooling at Bangalore and Udupi and graduated from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore. He also holds a post graduate degree in Applied Microbiology from the University of Madras. Prior to pursuing acting, he worked as a research scientist [2] for Biocon and ITC Limited. He married Kavita Kudtarkar (Nakshatra Prabhu) in 2012 and they have a daughter and twin boy and girl.

Film career

Prior to his acting career, Prabhu undertook modelling assignments with regional apparel brands. He began working for theater and short films; he played the lead in Meendum Orumurai, a Tamil language short film released in 2016. He underwent training at Usha Bhandari's film institute in 2014 and after a couple of years of acting in minor characters, he was called up for a role in 2016's critically acclaimed Kannada film Urvi. [3]

Filmography

Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearFilmRoleNotesRef.
2017 Urvi PrakashDebut
2018Double EngineSunil [4]
2019 D/O Parvathamma Rajesh [5] [6]
Relax Satya Sathya
2020 Maya Kannadi Sandy [7] [8]
2022Mysore DiariesLikith [9] [10] [11]
2023RanchiDeepak [12] [13]
2024’’Murphy’’David [14]

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