🌆 Not Just a City. A Beginning.
Before the box office storms.
Before the pan-India frenzy.
Before the global fandom.
There was Chennai.
And for Prabhas, that city isn’t just a dot on the map — it’s where everything began.
When asked about shifting from chennai to Andhra, his answer wasn’t political. It wasn’t calculated. It was personal.
🏫 1️⃣ Born There. Schooled There. Rooted There.
He was born in Chennai.
He studied at Don Bosco school, Chennai.
Those weren’t just formative years — they were identity-shaping years.
“In many ways, chennai is where my roots are,” he admits.
That’s not nostalgia talking. That’s grounding. The kind of grounding that follows you even when you become one of the biggest stars in indian cinema.
💛 2️⃣ You Can Move Cities. You Can’t Move Memories.
Yes, he shifted to Andhra later in life.
But emotionally? He never fully left.
Even today, he says he feels deeply connected to chennai — the people, the culture, the everyday rhythm of the city. There’s a softness in the way he speaks about it. Not dramatic. Not performative. Just real.
And every time he visits, he makes sure of one thing:
He goes back to his school.
Not for cameras. Not for headlines.
Just to feel that old version of himself again.
🗣️ 3️⃣ “I’ve Forgotten a Bit of Tamil… But It’s Still There”
Here’s the part that hits home.
Back in school, tamil wasn’t optional. It was everyday life. Conversations. Friendships. Classroom chatter. Playground arguments.
That language became muscle memory.
Over the years, he admits he’s forgotten some of it. But not completely.
And he laughs while saying it.
Because thanks to close friends like Sekhar Master and Amma Rajasekhar, both from tamil Nadu, he still gets to speak tamil often.
Add to that the many tamil technicians working in the telugu industry — and suddenly, the language never really leaves him.
“Otherwise, I might have completely forgotten it,” he says with a smile.
But you can tell — he wouldn’t have let that happen so easily.
🌊 4️⃣ chennai Isn’t Geography. It’s Emotion.
Chennai represents:
His childhood.
His first friendships.
His first language rhythm.
His earliest dreams.
There’s something powerful about a superstar admitting he “genuinely misses” a city.
Not for glamour.
Not for industry connections.
But for its people. Its culture. Its sound.
He still feels that tamil within him, he says. Somewhere inside.
And maybe that’s the most honest part of it all.
⭐ The Man. The Myth. The Roots.
In an industry obsessed with scale, collections, and openings, this felt refreshingly human.
Because long before Baahubali: The Beginning turned him into a national phenomenon…
Long before global recognition followed…
There was a boy in chennai, speaking tamil every day, walking into school at Don Bosco.
You can leave a city.
You can build a career elsewhere.
But some cities don’t leave you.
For Prabhas, chennai isn’t the past.
It’s a permanent chapter. 💛
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