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'''''Ravikumar''''' also known as Besant Ravi is an [[Indian film]] actor known for playing action, character roles in [[Kollywood]], [[Bollywood]] and several other Indian language films.<ref name="thehindu.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/from-stuntman-to-actor/article498871.ece |title=From stuntman to actor |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=2010-07-04 |accessdate=2016-03-02}}</ref><ref name="nettv4u.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.nettv4u.com/celebrity/tamil/movie-actor/besant-nagar-ravi|title=Tamil Movie Actor Besant Nagar Ravi - Nettv4u|work=nettv4u}}</ref>
'''Besant Ravi''' (born R.Ravikumar on 1 February) [[Indian film]] actor known for playing action, character roles in [[Kollywood]], [[Bollywood]] and several other Indian language films.<ref name="thehindu.com">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/from-stuntman-to-actor/article498871.ece |title=From stuntman to actor |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=2010-07-04 |accessdate=2016-03-02}}</ref><ref name="nettv4u.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.nettv4u.com/celebrity/tamil/movie-actor/besant-nagar-ravi|title=Tamil Movie Actor Besant Nagar Ravi - Nettv4u|work=nettv4u}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 11:20, 8 March 2016

Besant Ravi
Born
R.Ravikumar

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationFilm actor
Years active1997–present
SpouseR.Prabhavathy
ChildrenRP.Suvetha Shri, RP.Pranav

Besant Ravi (born R.Ravikumar on 1 February) Indian film actor known for playing action, character roles in Kollywood, Bollywood and several other Indian language films.[1][2]

Early life

Besant Ravi who born and grew up in Chennai was a bike mechanic in his early stages of life and all his childhood days he grew up watching film shootings near his house in Besant Nagar. He soon became familiar with the artists and technicians on the sets. Besant Ravi who expertise in Martial arts and boxing , got his first break in cinema in the movie, Lucky Man.[1][2]

Career

He got his first break in cinema in the movie Lucky Man (film) in which he performed a solo stunt , then he got trained professionally for cinema by stunt master Pandiyan. He started his career as a fighter later moved into acting in several action sequences . Later he got many offers to enter into the acting arena and got busy with acting. Director S. Shankar’s Mudhalvan was noted among his projects.[1][2]

Actor

After being Successful into stunt and action he started getting good offers into acting he stepped into acting and is successful there too. He has completed 19 years into acting and did not stop with Tamil he has also done movies in other Indian languages like , Hindi, All south indian languages , Bengali etc. Apart from character roles , villain roles he has also acclaimed in many comedy roles with legendary comedians Goundamani, Vadivelu and Santhanam.

Kollywood

He started his career with Luck Man and doing several movies in Tamil and other languages but his acting career started getting acclaimed with Director Shankar’s Mudhalvan in which he performed a Bus Jump sequence which was appreciated by the director S. Shankar and he gifted him a 500 rupee note signed by him after the shoot. Later he got busy with acting several movies. Among that ‘Ponnar Shankar,' which was writtern by Former CM M Karunanidhi and M Karunanidhi admired his performance in the film.

Bollywood

After Kollywood his areer in Bollywood started with the racy director Rohit Shetty with the film Singham in 2011. His career break was in 2013 he did the role of ‘Periya anna’ in Shahrukh Khan & Deepika Padukone starring ‘Chennai Express’ directed by Shetty.

Filmography

Events

Metro Boxing Championship

Tamil Nadu Boxing association in the year 2014 conducted a grand event Metro Boxing, Besant Ravi who is the Youth president for Kanchipuram Boxing association wing had a major role and Actor Jayam ravi was the chief guest and Jay Kowli from Indian Boxing Federation presided over the event.

References

  1. ^ a b c "From stuntman to actor". The Hindu. 4 July 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Tamil Movie Actor Besant Nagar Ravi - Nettv4u". nettv4u.
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