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Dinesh Prabhakar
Dinesh Prabhakar
	Dinesh Prabhakar
Born	Dinesh Nair; Perumbavoor, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	actor, Executive producer, Casting director
Years active	2002 – present
Notable work	Meesa Madhavan, Lukka Chuppi, Jacobinte Swargarajyam, Drishyam 2, Malik (film)
Spouse	Sreerekha Dinesh
Children	Vibha Nair
Parents	Prabhakaran Nair (father); Sarojini Amma (mother);

Dinesh Prabhakar, also known by his birth name Dinesh Nair, is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam films.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Dinesh was born as the second child of Prabhakaran Nair and Sarojini Amma at Pulluvazhi, Perumbavoor, Ernakulam, Kerala. He was passionate about Cinema and Media from the childhood itself. This passion tempted him to discontinue from studies during his college years at Sree Sankara College. Passionate about the movies and fascinated to Hindi language during school days with heavy influence by the Doordarshan serials like Circus (Indian TV series), Humraahi, Tamas (film) and the programs like Chitrahaar & Surabhi (TV series) he then moved to Mumbai in the early 1990s where his elder sister stays. He started to work as a medical shop assistant for a living along with learning the language Hindi. The life in Mumbai played a major role in helping his growth in acting, dubbing, casting any many more roles he has done during his film journey. During his stay in Mumbai he was eagerly trying to get into the silverscreen but in vain. His movie career started with a small role in the film Meesa Madhavan in 2002. This role helped him to bag couple of more roles in main stream Malayalam films. Meanwhile along with his fellow dubbing artist and friend Jismon he started an advertisement agency.^[3]

Career

Prabhakar started his film career as a dubbing artist for many popular Ad films. He had lent his voice for most of the popular ads which featured Sharukh Khan, Aamir Khan & Amitabh Bachan in the Malayalam versions. Meanwhile along with his fellow dubbing artist and friend Jis Joy he started an advertisement agency. Dubbing and the advertisement agency had become his pathway to the movie field. He is considered as the first casting director of Malayalam film industry.^[4]

Personal life

Dinesh is married to Sreerekha. They have a daughter Vibha Nair who is studying now .

Filmography

As actor

Malayalam films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Meesa Madhavan	Manoharan
2002	Nammal	College student
2003	Pattalam	Satheeshan
2003	Swapnakoodu	Anpazhakan
2004	Rasikan	Raj Kumar
2005	Rappakal	Govindan
2006	Karutha Pakshikal	Babu
2008	Thalappavu	Dinesh
2010	Aagathan	Dasappan
2010	Best Actor	Assistant Director
2012	Matinee
	Mullassery Madhavan Kutty Nemom P. O.
	Namukku Parkkan
	Orange
2013	God for Sale	Hari
	Left Right Left	Anil
	Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum	Adv. Ashokan
2014	1983	Saji a.k.a. Ambrose Saji
	Beware of dogs	Freddy
	Money Ratnam	Cleetus
	Samsaaram Aarogyathinu Haanikaram	Chettupara Sasi
	Homely Meals	Lalan
2015	Ayal Njanalla	Christopher Vasco
	Jamna Pyari	Aadu Thoma
	Kohinoor	St Johnson
	Kunjiramayanam	Ramachandran
	Love 24x7	Channel Employee
	Lukka Chuppi	Benny Chacko
	Pathemari	Sudhakaran
	Premam	Lonappan
	Rockstar	Rarichan
	Two Countries	Driver(Cameo)
2016	Jacobinte Swargarajyam	Sijoy
	Kavi Uddheshichathu..?
	Kolamass
	Kolumittayi
	Monsoon Mangoes	Reporter
	Oozham	Selvam
	Paavada	Thattukada Kunjumon
2017	Solo	Prabha
2017	Sherlock Toms	Cost Gangu
2018	Aami	Angry Husband of Madhavikutty fan
2019	Sathyam Paranja Viswasikkuvo	Prasad
	Prakashante Metro		^[5]
	Sayanna Varthakal	TBA
2021	Drishyam 2	Rajan
2021	Malik	Peter Esthappan	^[6]
2022	Bro Daddy	James
	The Teacher	Vishwambaran
	Veekam		^[7]
2023	Garudan	Saji
2024	Kunddala Puranam		^[8]
	Nunakkuzhi	Gunda Shaji	^[9]
	Pallotty 90's Kids		^[10]
	Marco	Investigating officer

Other Language films

+Key	†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Language
2013	Madras Cafe	LTF (Based on LTTE) Militant	Hindi
2015	Waiting	Lucky	Hindi
2017	Chef	Alex Oomen^[11]	Hindi
2017	Solo	Prabha	Tamil
2019	Nerkonda Paarvai	Police Inspector Kandhasamy	Tamil
2019	Bakrid	Sundaram	Tamil
2022	Valimai	DCP Rajangam	Tamil
	Rocketry: The Nambi Effect	L. D. Gopal	Tamil Hindi
	Sardar	Chittagong prison guard	Tamil

As casting director

+Key	†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film
2013	Thira
2015	Lukka Chuppi
2016	Jacobinte Swargarajyam

As dubbing artist

Year	Film	Actor
2013	Amen	Makarand Deshpande
2015	Two Countries	Makarand Deshpande
	Double Barrel	African
	Laddoo	Charlie
2016	Devi	Prabhu Deva
2016	Pulimurugan	Makarand Deshpande
2022	PS: I (Malayalam)	Vikram Prabhu