Chintha Ravi

Chintha Ravi

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Chintha Ravi Biography

Chintha Ravi is the pen name of Malayalam writer and film personality, K. Ravindran. He is also known as a journalist and film critic and known for directing off beat movies like Ore Thooval Pakshikal (1988) which earned him State award for best film. Music was given by noted filmmaker, G. Aravindan on whom he made a national award-winning documentary film - Maunam Sowmanasyam. Ravi died on 4 July 2011, aged 65. He was undergoing treatment of lung cancer at a private hospital at Thrissur.

 

He was born in Kozhikode in the year 1945. After graduation, he did a journalism course at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Mumbai.  Athiranippookkal - a children's book marked his literary career. Though he was not politically active during his college days, his works were influenced by communist ideologies a little bit. He began his professional writing career with ‘Searchlight’ base on cinema and in the few years, he came to be noted a film critic. Later he joined ‘Chinta’ – The communist journal and adapted the pen name Chinta Ravi. He wrote the famous travelogues "Ente Yathrakal" for Kerala kaumudy. His whole collections of travelogues were published later as Raveendrante Yathrakal. A Left sympathiser, he served as a member of the editorial board of the Chintha weekly.

 

His books on books on art criticism and cinema are equally popular as his travelogues. His other works include – Athiranippookkal, Kadine Nokkumbol Ilakale Kannunnathu, Antonio Gramsci, Kalavimarsam: Marxist Manadandam and Cinemayude Rashtreeyam. He has also appeared in a supporting role in the controversial and critically acclaimed Kabanee Nadi Chuvannappol, filmed by P. A. Backer. His visual travelogue series entitled Ente Keralam was aired on Asianet. It was based on the travels of ravi including remote Kerala villages.

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Updated: April 09, 2014

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