Ravi Babu is an Indian actor, director, writer, and producer in
Telugu cinema
Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Cinema of India, Indian cinema dedicated to the production of Film, motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Based in Film N ...
. He has written 13 films and directed 16. He has acted in roughly 67 films in his career.
Personal life and career
His father is actor
Chalapathi Rao
Tammareddy Chalapathi Rao (8 May 1944 – 24 December 2022) was an Indian actor and producer known for comedy and villainous roles in Telugu cinema. He acted in different roles in more than 600 films.
Personal life and death
Rao hailed from B ...
.
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.
In 1999, he started his own production house,
Flying Frogs
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, initially to produce television commercials, but it later became a feature film production house.
Babu wrote and directed an advertising campaign with actress
Tamannaah
Tamanna Bhatia (born 21 December 1989), known professionally as Tamannaah Bhatia, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. Having appeared in 88 films, she has received several awards, including two Sa ...
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 firm -
Flying Frogs
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, has closely collaborated and worked with the late Ramoji Rao's
ETV network
ETV Network is a network of Telugu language news and entertainment satellite television channels in India. It is based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It also had some non Telugu-language satellite television channels. All non- Telugu satel ...
, and prominent producer Mr. Suresh Daggubati ( MD,
Suresh Productions
Suresh Productions (also known as Suresh Movies, Vijaya Suresh Combines) is an Cinema of India, Indian film production company, production and Film distributor, distribution company known for its works in Telugu cinema. It is established in 19 ...
)
Filmography
* ''All films are in Telugu except otherwise noted.''
As director, writer and producer
As actor
References
External links
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Living people
Telugu male actors
Male actors in Telugu cinema
Male actors in Kannada cinema
Male actors in Tamil cinema
Telugu film directors
Telugu screenwriters
20th-century Indian male actors
21st-century Indian male actors
Indian male film actors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Screenwriters from Vijayawada
Male actors from Vijayawada
Film directors from Andhra Pradesh
Film producers from Andhra Pradesh