Ravi Babu

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

Ravi Babu is an Indian actor, director, writer, and producer in Telugu cinema.

Personal life and career

His father is actor Chalapathi Rao. ^[1] Babu was invited to participate in a course at the Sony Institute in San Jose, California. After the course, he did a short stint at TV Asia as an ENG producer and also worked as a cameraman and editor. ^[2]

In 1999, he started his own production house, Flying Frogs, initially to produce television commercials, but it later became a feature film production house. ^[2]

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 2014 elections. Over the years, Ravi Babu, through his film production company, Flying Frogs, has closely collaborated and worked with the late Ramoji Rao's ETV network, and Daggubati Suresh's Suresh Productions.

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

• All films are in Telugu except otherwise noted.

As film director

Films directed

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2002	Allari	Also producer	[3]
2003	Ammayilu Abbayilu		[4]
2005	Soggadu		[5]
2006	Party		[6]
2007	Anasuya	Also producer	[7]
2008	Nachavule		[8]
2009	Amaravathi		[9] [10]
2010	Manasara		[11]
2011	Nuvvila		[12]
2012	Avunu		[13]
2014	Laddu Babu		[14]
2015	Avunu 2	Also producer	[15]
2018	Adhugo		[16] [17]
2019	Aaviri		[18] [19]
2021	Crrush		[20]

As writer and producer

Main article: Flying Frogs

Films written or produced

Year	Title	Writer	Producer	Ref.
2023	Asalu	Yes	Yes
2024	Rush	Yes	No

As actor

Films and roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Maavidaakulu	Muddu Krishna
	Sivayya
	Pellaadi Choopista
	Mangalyam Tantunanena		Kannada film
	Love Story 1999
	Tholi Prema	Villain
1999	Habba	Seetha's second brother	Kannada film
	Sultan	Noor
	Neti Gandhi
	Hello...Yama!	Ravi
2000	Vamshoddharakudu	Ashok
	Chala Bagundi	Rapist
	Durgada Huli		Kannada film
	Mahatma		Kannada film
	Jayam Manadera	Ravindra Naidu
2001	Murari	Bulabbayyi
2003	Ammayilu Abbayilu
	Neeku Nenu Naaku Nuvvu
	Simhadri
2004	Pallakilo Pellikoothuru	Dubai Babu
	Nenunnanu	Waltair Ravi
	Naani	Satyam's son
	Adavi Ramudu
2006	Party	James
	Annavaram	Police Inspector
2007	Madhumasam
	Aata
	Lakshyam	Pawan
	Tulasi
	Anasuya	"Gulabi Puvvu" Govind
2008	Swagatam	Padmakar Mudumba
	Kalidasu	Police Officer
	Victory	Laxman Rao
	Brahmanandam Drama Company
2009	Yavarum Nalam	Inspector Shiva	Bilingual film; Tamil version
	Nachchav Alludu
	Amaravathi	Venkat
2010	Prateeroju
	Manasara...
2011	Mayagadu
	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
	Eduruleni Alexander
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	Varaha Murthy
	Raja Raja Chora	William Reddy
2022	Anukoni Prayanam	Sub-inspector
2023	Asalu	Ranjith Rao
	Changure Bangaru Raja	Gateelu
2024	The Family Star	Loan shark
	Rush	Siva	Also writer
	Swag	Chinnayana
2025	Coffee with a Killer

References

1. "Chalapathi Rao, Telugu Legend & Ravi Babu's Dad, Dies at 78; Pawan Kalyan, Allari Naresh Mourn Loss". News18.
2. "Interview with Ravi Babu by Jeevi". idlebrain. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
3. "Interview with Ravi Babu by Jeevi". idlebrain.com. 26 April 2002. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
4. "Guys and gals sans spice". Thehindu.com. 3 February 2003. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
5. "Soggadu". Sify . Archived from the original on 22 October 2016.
6. "Reviews : Movie Reviews". Telugucinema.com . Archived from the original on 19 November 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
7. Rajamani, Radhika (21 December 2007). "Bhoomika shines in Anasuya". Rediff.com .
8. "Telugu Movie review - Nachavule!". idlebrain.com. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
9. G. V, Ramana. "Amaravathi film review". idlebrain.com. Idlebrain. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
10. "Nandi Awards of Year 2009". greenmangos.net. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
11. "Telugu Movie review - Manasara". idlebrain. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
12. "Telugu Movie review - Nuvvila". idlebrain.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
13. "Avunu movie review". NDTV movies. 29 September 2012. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012.
14. "Laddu Babu movie review". The Times of India. Times of India. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
15. "Avunu 2: Predictable old fare". 3 April 2015 – via www.thehindu.com.
16. "Adhugo Movie Review". The Times of India. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 9 March 2024.
17. Chowdhary, Y. Sunita (9 November 2018). "Adhugo: Neither funny nor cute". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 9 March 2024.
18. Arikatla, Venkat (1 November 2019). "Aaviri Movie Review{1.5/5}: Thrills Gone in Thin Air". greatandhra.com. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
19. Chowdhary, Y. Sunita (2 November 2019). "'Aaviri' review: not enough horror here". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 9 March 2024.
20. "Ravi Babu's Crrush will release on ZEE5 on THIS day". OTTPlay.

External links

• Ravi Babu at IMDb
• Ravi Babu on Instagram