Dinesh Nair

Dinesh Prabhakar
Dinesh Prabhakar
Born	Dinesh Nair
Occupation	Film actor, executive producer, casting director
Years active	2002 – present
Notable work	Meesa Madhavan, Lukka Chuppi, Jacobinte Swargarajyam
Spouse(s)	Sreerekha

Dinesh Prabhakar (Malayalam: ദിനേശ് പ്രഭാകര്), also known by his birth name Dinesh Nair, is an Indian film actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam movies. He hails from Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district of Kerala, India. He debuted with the Malayalam film, Meesa Madhavan (2002).

Dinesh was born at Iringol near Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district of Kerala stste. He had shown interest in arts,acting etc during school days. His school and college education was at Jayakeralam School and Sree Sankara college respectively near to his native place Perumbavoor. During the early 1990's, he reached Mumbai as a college dropout. He began as an assistant in a medical shop to make the ends meet. He continued to chase his passion for acting and become part of numerous Marathi, Hindi and English plays and started comparing various shows organized by different cultural associations. Later he got into advertising field where his passion took an upward leap.

Dinesh made his debut with a small role in Meesa Madhavan as lead actors friend. He started bagging small roles in malayalam films soon after his debut. He started his Ad film agency together with couple of friends. Meanwhile he involved much into more aspects of film industry like dubbing, production executive,casting director etc. He is often referred to as the first casting director of Mollywood.