Prabhakar Sharan from Costa Rica. In search to become an actor, he shifted to Costa Rica, Central America in the year 2002. He is the second Indian to visit Costa Rica and came with one objective to create the dignified name of his country and pursue his dreams.
He boosted his Indian culture through Bollywood movies and always followed his dreams to become an actor. In the year 2005, he was the first person to bring Hindi movies to Central American countries. Despite losing money with distribution business his passion to be an actor walked him through all process. He grave Latin culture and established a bridge with Indian culture in the year 2010, he became the board member and partner of the university where he came to study. After many intents to make a proper Bollywood style movie in Spanish finally in 2017, all doors seemed to be closed till the moment he met the producer Teresa Rodriguez who supported him to make his dream come true and first Bollywood style Latin American movie “Enredados La Confusion” was shot in India, Costa Rica, and Panama with the support of more than 1200 people from Latin America and India. “Enredados La Confusion” opened a huge market for Indian producers and vice-verse. He directed and acted and become First Indian Citizen to work in Latin American Spanish movie.
The film was encouraged by Indian Embassies in Panama, Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, and the United States. Every one puts their efforts, with similar thought he started his new project “BORDERS WITHOUT LIFE”. The movie is based on human smuggling and it will tear the unseen facts of how people get victimized to this organized crime. We also got a confirmation from” Government of India, Ministry Of External Affairs” and Embassies in Latin America to execute the filming and its release successfully. so if you believe in yourself and make friends with failures success will follow you.
Achievements & Accolades
• Sharan was in the “Judge panel of Miss India World” which happens from last 36 years in USA, he was elected as Vice President of Indo Latin Chamber of Commerce, New Delhi.
• He has been awarded by university group Global Education Group which is a foundation affiliated to USA and Costa Rican Government as Best Asian to work with children’s for free education in my university. Awarded as Best debut Actor in Los Angles film festival, USA and was invited by our Consulate General in New York for felicitation.
• Awarded as Best actor and my film as a Best foreign film in Jharkhand film festival 2018 by the Government and Organizers.
• Awarded as best Debut director by Delhi film festival on 22nd of September 2018.
• Awarded by Dehradun film festival and Uttarakhand cabinet minister Mr. Madan Kaushik as best Debut Director.
• Awarded by Mayor of California, USA for my tribute to the Indian community in 2016.
• Humanitarian award by Vick Dhillon, an Ex-Member of Parliament in the Canadian Government for my Contribution to Indian culture and cinema in Latin America.
• His work has been awarded and appreciated by Costa Rican by Ex-Vice President Mr. Rodrigo Arias.
• Awarded by Delhi International Film Festival as best Debut Director.
• Awarded as INDIAN ACHIEVERS SAMMAN together with MEA on 29 0ctober 2018 in New Delhi and Ministry external affairs published a 4-page article about his achievements in their official magazine India Perspective.
• Elected as WORLD KABADDI ORGANIZATION treasurer to develop Kabaddi in Latin America in Presence of our Ex-Prime Minister Shree H.D DEVE GOWDA.
• His film has been selected and awarded by many other festivals throughout the world and it was screened in 72ndCANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2019 with a huge success and his name is recommended by the Honorable Indian Ambassador in Panama Mr. Ravi Thapar for PRAVASI BHARATIYA AWARD 2019 and upcoming government awards.