Ravi Babu
| Ravi Babu Tammareddy | |
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| Native name | Telugu: రవి బాబు |
| Born | Ravi Babu Tammareddy |
| Occupation | Actor, director, producer & writer |
| Years active | 2000-present |
| Spouse(s) | Tanuja |
| Parent(s) | Chalapathi Rao |
| Website | http://ravibabu.com/ |
Ravi Babu is an actor, director and producer in the Telugu film industry. He has directed 12 films, produced five, acted in some of them and written all of them. As an actor, he has starred in over 75 films in varied roles as villain, comedian, and comedic villain.
He is the son of veteran Telugu film 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, also in Chennai. He graduated with an MBA from the Symbiosis International University, Pune. Ravi could have chosen a high-flying corporate job that would have given him all the perks a fresh MBA from a top university would get, but he gave that up to pursue his dream of film-making. So, he took an off-beat offer of working as a production assistant to ace advertising film-maker Rajiv Menon.
As an assistant to Rajiv Menon Babu had to carry lenses, cameras and boxes. Within a few months, he was promoted as an assistant director and an assistant cameraman. Six months later, Babu enrolled in an advanced cinematography course at the Film and Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine, but quit shortly. He was offered a job as a cameraman by the India Broadcasting Network in New York. On the job he picked up editing as a skill. His work caught the attention of some executives at Sony and they invited him to do 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's return to India saw producer D. Ramanaidu and director E.V.V. Satyanarayana offer him films, for acting. Acting in movies out of Hyderabad and Bangalore, he kept in touch with his primary passion of film making through advertising. He was directing television commercials for production house Autmncart. In 1999 he started his own production house, Flying Frogs, initially to produce television commercials but would later become a feature film production house.
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