Viswanathan & Illayaraja as a team, done good business especially in rural centres. Selvamani in Kanmani, but this time success eluded them, but Sendhamizh Selvan, which had music by M. He continued doing the romantic roles in Enga Thambi with Subhashri, Kizhakke Varum Paattu and Rasa Magan. Ironically the film was the remake of his debut film Vaigasi Poranthachu. Prashanth tasted his first failure in Unakkaga Piranthen opposite Mohini and his Bollywood debut I Love You also bombed inspite of its super hit musical score. Meantime Prashanth\'s contemporaries Vijay debuted in 1992 and Ajith Kumar made his debut in 1993. Selvamani\' s tamil-telugu Bi-lingual became blockbusters in both Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh establishing Prashanth as the numero uno Romantic star of South Indian films. Prashanth completed Hat-trick of hits with Balu Mahendra\' s Vanna Vanna Pookkal. The film was a commercial success as well. His performance as the son of legendry carpentar Perumthachan, played by Thilakan won him rave reviews. The low budget film was released without much expectation, but its hit music by Deva and galaxy of comedy stars made the film entertaining resulting the successful launch of Prashanth, then he surprised everyone by accepting Malayalam film Perumthachan written by M. Prashanth started off as a leading romantic hero in the 1990 surprise hit Vaigasi Poranthachu. In the late 90\'s and early 2000\'s, he featured in a few successful films such as Kannedhirey Thondrinal (1998), Kaadhal Kavithai (1998), Jodi (1999), Parthen Rasithen (2000), Thamizh (2002) and Winner (2003). After a brief career lull, Prashanth appeared in a dual role in Shankar\'s blockbuster romantic comedy Jeans (1998) alongside Aishwarya Rai. Selvamani\'s Chembaruthi (1992) and Mani Ratnam\'s action-comedy Thiruda Thiruda (1993). The son of actor-director Thiagarajan, Prashanth began his career at 17 by appearing in Vaigasi Poranthachu (1990) and went on to feature in other popular films including R. Prashanth is an Indian film actor who predominantly appeared in lead roles in Tamil cinema, as well as a few Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam films.