Peter Hein

Actor/Action Choreographer

Biography

Peter Hein is a Stunt director, Action Director, Action Co-ordinator who did his job for many South Indian Motion Pictures. He was born in Chennai to Vietnamese immigrants and settled down in Chennai. He started his carrer as Extra Stunt boy, Assistant fight master for many number of Telugu and Tamil films. During initial days of his career he was working as assistant to action directors Vijayan (fight master) and Kanal Kannan. Krishna Vamsi a noted Telugu film director(one-time assistant to Ram Gopal Varma) recognised his sincerity, dedication towards his job and offered him to direct the Action sequences for the movie Murari which is also dubbed into tamil. From then on he became a full length Action director, Action Co-ordinator, Stunt director for various Telugu and Tamil films. He acquired well recognition from critics and media for his work in several movies like Anji, Run, Kaakha Kaakha and he came into hall of fame for his work in movies like Varsham, Athadu, Anniyan, Chatrapati etc;.... Recently he once again drew the attention of critics and became famous entire South India overnight after the release of magnum opus Magadheera. Ram Gopal Varma introduced him to Bollywood  with James movie. He received Filmfare best action award for his work in the hindi version of Ghajini. Mani Ratnam was very much impressed for his work in movies like Athadu and Anniyan enrolled him to direct stunt sequences for the movie Raavan. However due to scheduling conflicts with Magadheera, Peter Hein has done limited work for Raavan.