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Prakash Nambiar
Born
Prakash Nambiar

Pariyaram, Kerala India
Alma materRachna Sansad's Academy of Architecture, Mumbai
Occupations
Years active2001–present
Known forHum Tum
AwardsStar Screen Award

Prakash Nambiar is a film director, producer, film writer, animator, entrepreneur and an author based in Mumbai.[1] He's best known for the creation of two animated characters "Hum & Tum" for Yash Raj Films under his company Kathaa Animations.[2][3] The characters were used in the critically acclaimed award-winning film of the same name Hum Tum (2004).[4][5][6][7] Both characters are one of the most successful animated characters to be used in mainstream Bollywood film.[8][9][10]

Nambiar marked his feature film directorial debut with The Perfect Girl (2015).[11][12][13] Nambiar's book "The Blunder Years: Memoirs of an Introverted Teenager" released on Amazon.com in 2020.[14] He is the co-founder of FFTG Awards Film Fest, an annual international digital event, based in New York.[15][16]

Early life and career

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Prakash Nambiar was born into an engineering family in Pariyaram in Kerala and spent a few years there before moving to Bombay, now Mumbai due to his father's machine designing work. He is an architect from the Rachna Sansad's Academy of Architecture.[17] A chance meeting with a friend who was working at UTV Animations, introduced him to the world of animation. He soon quit his architecture career and started developing coding skills for multimedia games and founded Kathaa Animations in 2001.[18] The company went on to create two animated characters titled Hum Tum for the Hindi language romantic comedy film of the same name.[19][20] Kathaa Animations won the Star Screen Award for Best Visual effects for its animation work in the year 2004.[21] Nambiar's body of work went on to produce and direct digital films for international brands including Cadbury, Tanishq Jewelers, several short films for Idea Cellular and Hyundai featuring Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan.[22]

He marked his feature film directorial debut with The Perfect Girl (2015) starring Tara Alisha Berry, Teeshay Shah.[23][24][25] As of April 20, 2021 the has film over 6.5 million views on YouTube garnering positive reviews.[26] It's very unique among all love story ever, said Priya Raj one of the viewer. "if you are thinking about you should watch it or not, just listen to your heart and give it a shot you will love it" read another review. "Indispensable. How can just those long scenes make u fall in love" followed another review among several others.

Nambiar's upcoming directorial is a biopic on Hawa Singh known as the father of Indian boxing featuring Sooraj Pancholi. The film is produced by Kamlesh Singh Kushwah, Sam Fernandes and written by Junaid Wasi.[27][28] On 4 February 2020 the first look poster for Hawa Singh was released through Twitter by Indian actor Salman Khan with the caption "Hawa se baatein karega singh (This Singh will fly)" garnering numerous views and appreciation from audience and peers.[29][30]

Filmography

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† Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Film Director Producer Writer Animator Notes
2004 Hum Tum Yes animator
2011 I dream of hope Yes Yes Yes short directorial debut
2015 The Perfect Girl Yes Yes Yes feature directorial debut
2021 Hawa Singh† Yes [citation needed]
2022 Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Yes creative producer[citation needed]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Prakash Nambiar Animator, Writer, Director, VFX Producer". Notion Press. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Prakash Nambiar Director, Screenplay writer". Book My Show.
  3. ^ "Prakash Nambiar – Founder & CEO of Kathaa Animations". CG today. 22 January 2011.
  4. ^ Thanki, Pratiksha (24 August 2005). "Not too animated". The Times of India.
  5. ^ "Hum Tum – From Concept to completion, Kathaa Animations". PDF COFFEE.
  6. ^ Team, Animation Express (14 December 2006). "Animation Dimensions acquires Katha Animation, scales to 300". Animation Express.
  7. ^ "Prakash Nambiar – The Blunder Years: Memoirs of an Introverted Teenager". Barnes & Noble.
  8. ^ Khurana, Mehak (28 May 2021). "10 years of Hum Tum". Bollyspice.
  9. ^ Sasi, Tushhar. "'Hum Tum': Kunal Kohli's Magical Romance Ages Like Exquisite Wine". Filmy Sasi.
  10. ^ "oonpur Is India's First Live Action Animation Film". India TV.
  11. ^ Sharma, Paloma (11 September 2015). "Review: You cannot take The Perfect Girl seriously". Rediff.com.
  12. ^ "The Perfect Girl UA". The Times of India.
  13. ^ "The Perfect Girl – Ek Simple Si Love Story". Bollywood Hungama. 11 September 2015.
  14. ^ "THE BLUNDER YEARS". Amazon.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  15. ^ "Prakash Nambiar - Official Selection Committee". FFTG Awards.
  16. ^ "FFTG Awards Team". FFTG Awards. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  17. ^ Bayer, Lloyd (6 September 2015). "Prakash Nambiar Interview – The Perfect Girl". Filmphoria.
  18. ^ "Prakash Nambiar is a very famous Animation artist". net4u.
  19. ^ "Yash Raj Films 'Hum Tum' animation series to be based on boys vs girls theme". Indian Television. 24 June 2004.
  20. ^ Nanda, Tanmaya Kumar (29 May 2004). "Hum Tum: a casting coup!". Rediff.com.
  21. ^ "Hum Tum list of awards". Yashrajfilms.com.
  22. ^ "Prakash Nambiar". Bollywood India on a page.
  23. ^ Sharma, Paloma (11 September 2015). "Review: You cannot take The Perfect Girl seriously". Rediff.com.
  24. ^ "The Perfect Girl UA". The Times of India.
  25. ^ "The Perfect Girl – Ek Simple Si Love Story". Bollywood Hungama. 11 September 2015.
  26. ^ "The Perfect Girl - Full Movie". YouTube. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  27. ^ "Salman Khan unveils first look of upcoming biopic on the father of Indian boxing - Hawa Singh". National Herald.
  28. ^ "'Hawa Singh': Salman Khan shares Sooraj Pancholi's first poster from upcoming biopic on boxing legend". Times of India. 5 February 2020.
  29. ^ "Salman Khan announces Sooraj Pancholi's next, biopic on boxer Hawa Singh". No. Entertainment Culture. Business Standard.
  30. ^ "Sooraj Pancholi is heavyweight Hawa Singh". Telegraph India. 5 February 2020.
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