Mankatha

Venkat Kumar Gangai Amaren , better known by his stage name Venkat Prabhu is an Indian filmmaker, who has worked as an actor, director and playback singer in the Tamil film industry. After completing his education, he began pursuing an acting career, with his first three ventures, featuring him in... a starring role, failing to release, following which he began appearing in character roles. He hogged spotlight for the first time when he turned director with the summer hit Chennai 600028 . He achieved further commercial successes with his subsequent directorials Saroja and Mankatha . Venkat Prabhu lived in London, United Kingdom for seven years; during that time, he completed his high school and university studies, obtaining a degree in Accounting. After pursuing his music degree from Trinity College of Music, London, he had the ambition to become a successful music director. Following his return to India, Prabhu began singing for demo works of his cousins, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Karthik Raja, and started his career as a playback singer in the film industry. In 1996, he, his brother Premgi Amaren and his childhood friend S. P. B.
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