Besant Ravi

Besant Ravi
Born R. Ravikumar
(1970-06-01) June 1, 1970[1]
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Residence Adyar, Chennai
Nationality Indian
Occupation Film actor, stuntman
Years active 1997–present
Spouse(s) R. Prabhavathy
Children RP. Suvetha Shri, RP. Pranav

R. Ravikumar (born 1 February 1970), known as Besant Ravi is an Indian actor and stunt choreographer. He has played antagonistic supporting roles in Tamil, Hindi and several other Indian language films.[2][3]

Early life

Besant Ravi, who was born and brought up in Chennai, was a bike mechanic in his early stages of life, and all through 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 is expert in Mixed martial arts and boxing. He got his first break in cinema in the movie Lucky Man.[2][3]

Career

He got his first break in cinema in the movie Lucky Man, 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 and 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.[2][3]

Kollywood

He started his career with Lucky Man and was 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 those, he acted in Ponnar Shankar, which was written by Former CM M. Karunanidhi; and M. Karunanidhi admired his performance in the film.

Bollywood

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

Filmography

Tamil

Telugu

Malayalam

Kannada

Hindi

Bengali

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nadigarsangam.org/member/r-ravikumar-a-k-a-besant-ravi/
  2. 1 2 3 "From stuntman to actor". The Hindu. 2010-07-04. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  3. 1 2 3 "Tamil Movie Actor Besant Nagar Ravi - Nettv4u". nettv4u.
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