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

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. 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

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. 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,

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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

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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 -

, has closely collaborated and worked with the late Ramoji Rao's

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, and prominent producer Mr. Suresh Daggubati ( MD,

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)

Filmography

* ''All films are in Telugu except otherwise noted.''

As director, writer and producer

As actor

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Babu, Ravi 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