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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.[1]

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Ravi Babu
Born	Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation	Actor director producer writer
Years active	1998-present
Spouse(s)	Tanuja
Parent(s)	Chalapathi Rao
Website	ravibabu.com

Early life

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He is the son of veteran Telugu actor Chalapathi Rao and is the eldest of three siblings. His primary schooling was at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan in Chennai and he later studied English Literature at the Presidency College, Chennai. He graduated with an MBA from the Symbiosis International University, Pune.

Career

Early career

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.[2]

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.[3]

Actor

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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.

Director, writer and producer

In 2002, 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.

In 2006, Babu made Party, a film that revolved around ambitious corporate executives in Silicon Valley. The film's release coincided with the rise of India as the new IT hub and was well received at the multiplexes.

In 2007, he made Anasuya, a suspense-crime thriller about a female journalist who follows the trail of a macabre serial killer. The film was remade in Kannada and Malayalam.

In 2009, Babu found producer Ramoji Rao of Ushakiran Movies, who backed him in a family-based romantic entertainer – Nachavule. The film picked up three Nandi Awards. This same year, Babu returned to the genre of crime and suspense with Bhumika Chawla, Sneha and Taraka Ratna with Amaravathi.

In 2010, Babu directed Manasara, a love story set against the backdrop of Kerala based on the ancient martial art of Kalaripayattu.

In 2011, Babu made another college-oriented entertainer – Nuvvila, produced again by Ramoji Rao, which released on November 3, 2011. The film introduced Yami Gowtham, a Bollywood model and a number of youngsters in roles that largely reflected the dilemmas of modern-age youth.

In 2012, Babu made another out of the box film with Avunu starring Shamna Kasim.

In 2014, Babu teamed up with Allari Naresh to create a comic story Laddu Babu. The film received critical acclaim but got a mixed response at the box office.

In 2015, Ravi Babu returned with a sequel to Avunu, titled Avunu 2.

Advertising career

Babu wrote and directed an advertising campaign with actress Tamannaah for Celkon phones. He also created an advertising campaign for N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the last election.[4][5]

Filmography

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

As director

• All films are in Telugu except otherwise noted

List of films directed

Year	Film	Actors	Awards	Ref.
2002	Allari	Allari Naresh, Swetha Agrawal, Nilambari		[6]
2003	Ammayilu Abbayilu	Vijay, Mohit, Sonu Sood, Devina		[7]
2005	Soggadu	Tarun , Arti Agarwal		[8]
2006	Party	Allari Naresh, Shashank, Madhu Sharma, Brahmanandam		[9]
2007	Anasuya	Abbas, Bhoomika Chawla, Nikitha, Ravi Babu		[10]
2008	Nachavule	Tanish, Maadhavi Latha	Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actress - Raksha Nandi Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Geetha Madhuri Nandi Award for Best Female Dubbing Artist - R Haritha	[11][12][13][14][15]
2009	Amaravathi	Sneha, Bhumika Chawla, Sindhura Gadde, Taraka Ratna	Nandi Award for Best Villain - Taraka Ratna Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer - Sudhakar Reddy	[16][17]
2010	Manasara	Sri Divya, Bhanu Chander, George Vincent, Ramaraju		[18]
2011	Nuvvila	Havish, Ajay, Yami Gautam, Vijay Deverakonda, Prasad Barve		[19]
2012	Avunu	Harshvardhan Rane, Poorna, Ravi Babu		[20]
2014	Laddu Babu	Allari Naresh, Bhumika Chawla, Poorna, Kota Srinivasa Rao		[21]
2015	Avunu 2	Harshvardhan Rane, Poorna, Ravi Babu, Sanjjanaa
2018	Adhugo	Ravi Babu
2019	Aaviri	Ravi Babu
2021	Crrush	Ravi Babu

As actor

Telugu

List of films and roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Maavidaakulu	Muddu Krishna
	Pellaadi Choopista
	Love Story 1999
	Tholi Prema	Villain
1999	Sultan	Noor
	Neti Gandhi
2000	Vamshoddharakudu	Ashok
	Chala Bagundi	Rapist
	Jayam Manadera	Ravindra Naidu
2001	Murari	Bulabbayyi
2003	Ammayilu Abbayilu
	Neeku Nenu Naaku Nuvvu
	Simhadri
2004	Pallakilo Pelli Kooturu
	Nenunnanu	Waltair Ravi
	Naani	Satyam's son
	Adavi Ramudu
2006	Party	James
2007	Madhumasam
	Aata
	Lakshyam	Pawan
	Tulasi
	Anasuya	"Gulabi Puvvu" Govind
2008	Swagatam	Padmakar Mudumba
	Kalidasu	Police Officer
	Victory	Laxman Rao
	Brahmanandam Drama Company
2009	Nachchav Alludu
	Amaravathi	Venkat
2010	Prateeroju
	Manasara...
2011	Mayagaadu
	Anaganaga O Dheerudu	Sudigundam
2012	Avunu	Captain Raju
	Racha	Bellary's assistant
2013	Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu	Goodu Raju
	Mr. Pellikoduku
	Gundello Godari	Dora Babu
	Swamy Ra Ra	Durga Prasad
	Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha	Sridhar
	Prema Oka Maikam
2014	Alludu Seenu	Peda Prasad
2015	Avunu 2	Captain Raju
	Dohchay	CI Richard
	Thanu Nenu
2016	Dictator	Director
	Savitri
	Eedo Rakam Aado Rakam	Aadi Narayana
	Selfie Raja	Mams
	Trivikraman	Trivikraman
2021	Thimmarusu: Assignment Vali	Prosecutor Varaha Murthy
	Raja Raja Chora	William Reddy

Tamil

List of films and roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Kuselan	Inspector
2009	Yavarum Nalam	Inspector Shiva

Kannada

List of films and roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	MangalyamTantunanena
1999	Habba
2000	Durgada Huli

References

External links

• Ravi Babu at IMDb

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