Prakash Bare | |
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Born | Kasargod, Kerala |
Occupation | Actor, Producer, Technologist |
Spouse(s) | Latha |
Children | Shalini, Shruthi |
Prakash Bare is an actor and producer in the Indian film industry. He made his acting debut in the 2010 Malayalam film Sufi Paranja Katha and has worked in several critically acclaimed films since then. Bare is a live presence in art house movies in south Indian languages.
Prakash grew up in Chirakkal, a small village in Kannur district and attended Kamala Nehru UP School, Govt Model High School, Valapattanam and Kannur SN College for schooling. He completed B.Tech Electrical Engineering from NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala. Prakash was active in dramatics during the college days and has won many accolades including Best Actor awards in Calicut University Interzone festival. He later did a masters in Microelectronics from IIT Kanpur, and spent 15 years in Silicon Valley, California where he worked as a technologist and entrepreneur in the VLSI design and automation industry.
Prakash has held various technology and business positions in electronics design industry in the US and India. He was one of co-founders of GDA Technologies Inc, one of the pioneering Electronic Design Services(EDS) companies. GDA, listed as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in US by Inc Magazine its annual INC500 list in 2002, was subsequently acquired by Rambus Inc and L&T Technology Services in March 2007. He is currently involved with multiple technology start-ups in India.
Prakash Bare has acted in more than 20 films in Malayalam, Kannada and Marathi. Prakash is best known for his depiction of poet KP Madhavan Nair in Ivan Megharoopan. Another noted performance of Prakash is in film Oraalppokkam, produced by Kazhcha Chalachithra Vedi through online crowdfunding and shot in Kedarnath and Uttarakhand areas.