Actor and director · Telugu cinema

Prathap K. Pothan

Prathap K. Pothan movies: 8 Telugu films on file (7 as actor, 1 as director), 1984–2023. Earliest on file: Kanchana Ganga (1984). Latest release: Grey: The Spy Who Loved Me (26 May 2023).

Prathap K. Pothan
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Films on file
8 (7 as actor, 1 as director)
Years on file
1984–2023
Born
13 August 1952 · August birthdays (Wikidata)
Died
15 July 2022
Selected films on file
Chaithanya, Yevade Subramanyam, Chukkallo Chandrudu
Record
Q3531073 on Wikidata

Career on file

Prathap K. Pothan has 8 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1984 to 2023: seven films as actor and one film as director. The earliest of them is Kanchana Ganga (1984), and the most recent release is Grey: The Spy Who Loved Me (2023). Measured by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them, the best-known titles here are Chaithanya (1991), Yevade Subramanyam (2015) and Chukkallo Chandrudu (2006). Other recent releases on file are Yaar Ivan (2017), Maro Charitra (2010) and Justice Chakravarthy (1984).

Akkineni Nageswara Rao is the most frequent co-star, sharing two films with Prathap K. Pothan. Across these films the credits on file name 7 different directors, 8 music directors and 29 other credited actors.

Runtime is on file for 5 of them; they average 139 minutes, and the longest is Justice Chakravarthy at 157 minutes. By decade the list splits into 1980s (2), 1990s (1), 2000s (1), 2010s (3) and 2020s (1).

Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.

Filmography as actor (7)

Films directed (1)

Frequent co-stars

Directors worked with

  1. Raj Madiraju 1 film
  2. Tatineni Satya 1 film
  3. Nag Ashwin 1 film
  4. Ravi Yadav 1 film
  5. Sivakumar Ananth 1 film
  6. Dasari Narayana Rao 1 film
  7. V. Madhusudhan Rao 1 film

Music directors on their films

  1. Nagaraju Talluri 1 film
  2. S. Thaman 1 film
  3. Radhan 1 film
  4. Mickey J. Meyer 1 film
  5. Chakri 1 film
  6. Ilaiyaraaja 1 film
  7. Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu 1 film
  8. K. Chakravarthy 1 film