Prakash Raj is an Indian film actor, director, producer and television presenter, who mainly works in the South Indian film industry. He used to act in back-to-back stage shows for INR300 a month in the initial stages of his career when he joined Kalakshetra, Bangalore and he has 2,000 street theater performances to his credit. Apart from his mother tongue Kannada, Prakash’s fluency in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and English has placed him among the most sought after film actors in Indian cinema.He has played a variety of roles, most notably as the antagonist and of late, as a character actor. Prakash, as an actor has won a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Mani Ratnam’s Iruvar and a National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his role in Kanchivaram, a Tamil film directed by Priyadarshan[8] and as a producer has won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada for the film Puttakkana Highway directed by his long time theater friend B. Suresh in 2011. Prakash was also the host of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi during the shows second season.