Ravi Babu

Biography:

Ravi Babu is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer in the Telugu film industry. He has written and directed 15 films and starred in over 75 films. In this article we are going to talk about the biography, career, notable works, films and family of Actor Ravi Babu so read the article till the end.

Ravi Babu is a famous television and film celebrity and he worked in so many movies, this biography article is incomplete without talking about his films and shows. So here you will gain info about his films and projects.

Ravi Babu started as an assistant to Rajiv Menon and within a few months, he was promoted to assistant director and assistant cameraman. He was offered a job as a cameraman by the India Broadcasting Network in New York where he learned how to edit.

His work earned an invitation to participate in a course at the Sony Institute in San Jose, California. After the course, Babu did a short stint at TV Asia as ENG producer and also doubled up as cameraman and editor.

Babu returned to India where D. Ramanaidu and director E. V. V. Satyanarayana cast him in their films. While acting, he directed television commercials for the production house Autumncart.

In 1999, he started his own production house, Flying Frogs, initially to produce television commercials, but would later become a feature film production house.

Babu’s first films were Maavidakulu, directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana and Sivayya, produced by D. Ramanaidu, where he played a main villain in both the movies. He went on to act in more than 75 films with films including: Murari, Anasuya, Yavarum Nalam, Dohchay, Swamy Ra Ra and Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu.

In 2002, Ravi Babu launched himself as a director. His first Tollywood film was Allari, which was shot in 45 days on a shoestring budget. The coming-of-age film was set to music by Paul J. Allari and was released on May 10, 2002 by Suresh Films.

Babu went on to direct Ammayilu Abbayilu with more mature actors like Sonu Sood, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, and technicians like Chakri and Marthand K. Venkatesh and was released on January 30, 2003.

Soggadu is Babu’s third film starring the romantic couple, Tarun and Aarthi Agarwal. Suresh Babu produced the film and the movie was later remade into Hindi by Rajkumar Santoshi as Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani.