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Narasimha Prabhu Mundkur (born 5 December 1988) known by his screen name Prabhu Mundkur, is an Indian film and television actor. He is best known for his work in Kannada cinema. He started his career with television serial Kulavadhu (2016). He got his first film break in Pradeep Varma’s female-oriented movie Urvi which was critically acclaimed. The film went on to win the best feature film in New York City Indie film festival and was nominated for Filmfare Awards South for the "Best Feature Film".

Early life and family
Prabhu Mundkur (birth name - Narasimha Prabhu Mundkur) was born on 5 December 1988 to a Konkani speaking family, Manipal. His father, Pandurang Prabhu is a businessman, while his mother, Padmavati Prabhu, a homemaker. He has a younger sibling by name Sridevi Prabhu. Prabhu belongs to a strict orthodox Brahmin family. Though he took a keen interest in performing arts, he was never encouraged and was asked to only focus on completion of his education. He aforesaid having lived a lower-middle-class life in a rented one-bedroom apartment. He also said that he was having issues paying his school fees on time, and on one such occasion was asked to leave school. He eventually completed his schooling at Bangalore and Udupi by doing part-time jobs during his summer vacations. He graduated from St. Aloysius College (Mangalore) and post graduated from the University of Madras in Applied Microbiology. Prior to pursuing acting, he worked as a research scientist for Biocon and ITC (company). He married Kavita Kudtarkar (Nakshatra Prabhu), who hails from a Marathi-Konkani language speaking family from Mumbai on 29 December 2012 after a six-year courtship. They have a daughter by name Neka Prabhu Mundkur (born 2017).

Film career
Preceeding his acting career in films, he endorsed a couple of regional apparel brands. He also undertook modelling assignments but disliked the career as he believed that there was no scope for creativity for him in it. He thus began working for theatres which followed by him working in a Tamil short film Meendum Orumurai. It got nominated for "Best Short Film" under the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award. But this itinerary also made him realise his inexperience as an actor, and he enrolled himself for an acting course at Usha Bhandari's film institute in 2014. Though he bagged minor roles in few of the projects, he could not pursue them due to his job and professional commitments. He then consciously took one of toughest decisions of resigning from his job and focus full-time on his film career. Post which, he went ahead with auditioning for all kinds of innumerable auditions but did not happen to receive any good response. He was called for a lead role for a daily soap under Lokesh Productions which began shooting but dropped. He finally nailed his first commercial project in the year 2016 Urvi (film), immediately followed by Double Engine. He has so far completed more than 10 projects in a short span of 2 years.