Ravi Krishna Biography
Ravi Krishna is a popular south Indian film actor who predominantly works in Telugu and Tamil movies. He shot to fame with his debut Tamil movie, 7G Rainbow Colony in 2004 which earned him critics’ appreciation as well. He was successfully paired with actress Sonia Agarwal for the movie. Got noticed with the debut work, he later acted in Sukran, Ponniyin Selvan, Kedi, Brahmanandam Drama Company, Netru Indru Naalai, Ninna Nedu Repu, Kadhalna Summa Illai and Aaranya Kaandam belonging to Tamil and Telugu languages.
He was born on 2 March 1983 in Mumbai. He is the son of noted producer A. M. Rathnam. He never wanted to be branded in his father’s name and wanted to create an identity of his own. He completed graduation in Multimedia from London. He also took his diploma in Interactive communication at Pentamedia. He also continued his career in multimedia during this period. He never thought of joining film industry and acting happened by chance. When his father took the project 7G Rainbow Colony, he wanted to cast Madhavan or Siddarth for the lead role. Both were busy at that time and the director Selva Raghava casually asked if he could accept the role. Later his father asked him to make a trial with photo session and that’s how he got finalized for the role.
In fact 7G Rainbow Colony gave him a big break to his acting career, who never thought to become an actor. He also earned South Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut award for the movie. But later many of his movies flopped as audeinec had big expectations from him, post his debut movie success. However his last two releases - Kadhalna Summa Illai (2009) and Aaranya Kaandam (2011), both in Tamil received critics’ appreciation. Aaranya Kaandam is described as the first neo-noir film in Tamil cinema.
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Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Language | Cast |
2004 | 7G Rainbow Colony | Kadhir | Tamil | Ravi Krishna as Kadhir, Sonia Agarwal as Anitha, Suman Setty as Lakshminarayanan, Vijayan as Kadhir's father, Sudha as Kadhir's mother, Manorama (cameo) |
2005 | Sukran | Ravi Shankar | Tamil | Ravi Krishna, Vijay (Guest Appearance), Sandhya, Natassha, Sreeman, Nassar, Rambha |
Ponniyin Selvan | Venu | Tamil | Ravi Krishna as Venu, Gopika as Kani, Sanjeeda Sheikh as Priya, Prakash Raj as Guru, Revathi as Ponni, Devadarshini, Thalaivasal Vijay, Mayilsamy, Elango Kumaravel, Jegan | |
2006 | Kedi | Raghu | Tamil | Ravi Krishna as Raghu, Tamannah Bhatia as Priyanka, Ileana D'cruz as Aarthi, Atul Kulkarni as Pughazhenthy |
2008 | Brahmanandam Drama Company | Ravi | Telugu | Sivaji as Anandam, Brahmanandam as Vasu, Ravi Krishna as Sreenu, Kamalinee Mukherjee as Arpitha, Samiksha as Soni |
Netru Indru Naalai | Vetri | Tamil | Ravi Krishna as Vetri, Tamannah Bhatia, Nasser, Rekha Vedavyas(Akshara) as Swapna, Karunas | |
Ninna Nedu Repu | Vijay | Telugu | Tamannah Bhatia, Ravi Krishna, Brahmanandam, Rekha Vedvyas, Sivaji | |
2009 | Kadhalna Summa Illai | Vetrivel | Tamil | Ravi Krishna as Vetti Velu, Sharwanand as Abhiram, Kamalinee Mukherjee as Janaki, Nassar as GK, Tejashree, M. S. Bhaskar, Ganja Karuppu, Ilavarasu |
2011 | Aaranya Kaandam | Sappai | Tamil | Jackie Shroff as Singaperumal, Ravi Krishna as Sappai, Sampath Raj as Pasupathy, Yasmin Ponnappa as Subbu, Guru Somasundaram as Kaalayan, Master Vasanth as Kodukkapuli, Rambo Rajkumar as Gajendran, Ajay Raj |
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Updated: February 05, 2016