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P R Sekar, known professionally as Segaa Shekar or Rudrapathi Shekar is an actor, voice artist, script writer and director. He has won the Tamil Nadu State Award -The Best Male Voice in the year 2007 for the movie Malarinnum Melliya. He has also won The Best Child Artist Award from the Mylapore Fine Arts Club for his performance in Tamil theatre. In his career spanning more than two decades Shekar has voiced for many heroes including Prabhas in the magnum opus movie Baahubali: the beginning and Baahubali: The Conclusion.

Early Life

Shekar was born to theatre thespian and the owner of drama troupe APN Arts- K.P Rudrapathy and his wife Dhanam Rudhrapathy. He attended Savitriammal Oriental Higher Secondary School and D G Vaishnav College. Shekar is married to Gayathri Sarangarajan, former Television News Journalist at Ndtv Hindu. They have two sons Akshath Tejj Sekar and Vilvaa G Sekar.

Career

Acting

Theatre Shekar made his first stage appearance as a child artist. His teacher and father Late. Mr. K.P. Rudrapathy initiated him into acting. His performance as “Sage Narada” in the mythological play “Naradar” won him his first “Best Child Artist Award”. He has won the Best Child Artist Award three times in a row from the Mylapore Fine Arts Club. Shekar has acted in more than 2000 plays – comedy, social, mythological and family genres. He has shared stage with the likes of JaiGanesh, Heran Ramaswamy, Sri Hari and S.A Natrajan.

Television Commercials Under the direction of Gauatam Menon, Shekar acted with actors Danush and Puneeth Rajkumar in a tvc for 7up. He has also acted under direction of cinematographer P C Sriram.

Television Shekar has acted in many popular television serials for various South Indian television channels. He played the role of a doctor in Uyirmei directed by Priya of Kanda Naal Mudhal fame. Prior to that, he acted in another serial for Zee thamizh, Nalla Neram produced by Devar films. He has also acted in a negative role in Maya for Jaya Tv and as a father in Bala Ganapathy for Vijay Tv.

Movies Shekar’s first movie as a hero, Kodaikanal was directed by T.K.Bose. He then played the part of a news anchor for Radha Mohan’s Payanam. In 2015, he acted alongside Ajith in the movie Yennai Arindhaal directed by Gautam Menon. Shekar is currently acting in a Malayalam movie, The Sound Story.