Raam Lalchand Pridhani, better known as Raam Soraya or Ram Soraya, is an entrepreneur and film producer from Indonesia. He is the owner of production house Soraya Intercine Films. He was born in an Indian-Indonesian ( Sindhi) family in

Surabaya Surabaya is the capital city of East Java Provinces of Indonesia, province and the List of Indonesian cities by population, second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. Located on the northeastern corner of Java island, on the Madura Strai ...

, Indonesia on 4 November 1949. Before the film industry, he was a textile importer. His career in film began as a distributor for

East Java East Java (, , ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern ...

(1972 to 1982). He became a producer in the '' Budak Nafsu'' (1983) which won Best Film at the

Indonesian Film Festival The Indonesian Film Festival ( Indonesian: Festival Film Indonesia, 'FFI') is an annual awards ceremony organised by the Indonesian Film Board and the Ministry of Culture to celebrate cinematic achievements in the Indonesian film industry. Dur ...

(FFI) 1984. The film being the result of his own company, PT. Soraya Intercine Films. After that he made films including ' (1985), ''Permainan Yang Nakal'' (1986), '' Saya Suka Kamu Punya'' (1987) and others. Soraya's career peak came after taking over production of the '' Warkop DKI'' series from

Raam Punjabi Raam Jethmal Punjabi (born 6 October 1944) is an India media magnate and president of Multivision Plus (MVP). In 2001, due to his production of soap operas, he was referred to as "Indonesia's own soap king". Early life He was born in Surabaya, ...

's Parkit Film. Soraya made the ''Warkop'' television series in 1995 until 2007. In 2013, Soraya received trophy for his work '' Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck''

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* Indonesian businesspeople Indonesian film producers Indonesian people of Indian descent Indonesian people of Sindhi descent People from Surabaya Living people 1949 births Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology alumni {{Indonesia-bio-stub