Sreeja Ravi is an Indian voice artist and actress in

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and

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Films,who has lent her dubbing voice to over 2000 films in total and also performed voices for numerous commercial ads. in She started her dubbing career in the year 1975 for the movie ''

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'', directed by G. Aravindan. She is the winner of four time

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, one Tamil Nadu State Film Award and two

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for dubbing. Sreeja can speak

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, English and also

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, as she used those six major Indian languages to perform dubbing roles in foreign productions.

Personal life

Sreeja was born to Kunjukuttan, who was a mechanical engineer and Kannur Narayani, who was a theater and dubbing artist. After her father's death in 1972, the family moved to

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. Her mother started working as a dubbing artist and has acted in a few movies and dramas. Sreeja used to go to studios with her mother and eventually started dubbing. She has eight siblings, out of which two are no more. Her siblings are Manomohan, Madanmohan, Sreedharan, Prakashbabu, Rasiklal, Jyothish Kumar, Dr Vijayalakshmi Rajan Singh and Premasudha Krishnankutty. She is married to Raveendranathan. The couple has a daughter,

Raveena Ravi Raveena Ravi (born 11 December 1993) is an Indian dubbing artist and actress. She has dubbed several television advertisements directed by Rajiv Menon in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. She debuted as a voice artist with ''Saattai'' (2012) and an ...

, who is also a dubbing artist in Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu.

Career

Acting

In the start of her career, she acted in films like '' Manassu'' (1973), ''

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'' (1974) and ''

Raathriyile Yaathrakkaar ''Raathriyile Yaathrakkaar'' is a 1976 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. Venu and produced by Aswathy Suku. The film stars Jayabharathi, Adoor Bhasi, Sreelatha Namboothiri and Bahadoor in the lead roles. The film has musical score by G. D ...

'' (1976). She appeared in a small role in '' Kandukonden Kandukonden'' (2000) as a programmer who is pregnant, with whom Tabu talks about the difficulties in finding a house. She played the character of Cookeramma in

Anoop Sathyan ''Varane Avashyamund'' () is a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Anoop Sathyan, in his directorial debut. It was produced by Dulquer Salmaan under the banner of Wayfarer Films, and The film stars Suresh ...

's '' Varane Aavashyamundu'' (2020) along with

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, Dulquer Salman and

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. She also appeared in Jimmy Ee Veedinte Aiswaryam (2019). Sreeja Ravi was introduced as a dialogue writer and was involved in the dubbing direction for the

and

dubbed version of '' Shaakuntalam'' directed by

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, where she did dub for Gautami and Aditi Balan in Tamil.

Dubbing career

She started her dubbing career on films like '' Thambu'' and ''

'' as crowd voice. Then slowly started to give voice for child artists. Her first film for give voice to heroine was Ilaneer. But

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was make her popular on

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. In it she dubbed for

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and Master Prashobh. She mostly dubbed for actresses like

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, Divya Unni,

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, Sunitha, Charmila,

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and

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Filmography as voice actress

Malayalam

Tamil

:This list is incomplete. Ravi works as a voice actress in

and

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industries, apart from the

and

film industries.

Dialogues or effects between songs

Filmography as actress

Malayalam

Tamil

TV serials and ads

;Dubbing ;Ads

Awards

;Award for best dubbing artist

References

Notes

'എനിക്കിനിയൊരു സ്വാഭാവിക ജീവിതം ഉണ്ടാകില്ലെന്ന് ന്യൂറോ സര്‍ജന്‍ അന്ന് വിധിയെഴുതി'; ശ്രീജ പറയുന്നുഈ ശബ്ദം കാവ്യ മാധവന്‍റേയോ ദിവ്യ ഉണ്ണിയുടെയോ, അതോ...; പ്രേക്ഷകരെ കണ്‍ഫ്യൂഷനാക്കിയ 'കുക്കറമ്മ' ആര്?Petromax World Television Premiere Tamil Comedy Horror Film On TVഈ ശബ്ദം കാവ്യ മാധവന്‍റേയോ ദിവ്യ ഉണ്ണിയുടെയോ, അതോ...; പ്രേക്ഷകരെ കണ്‍ഫ്യൂഷനാക്കിയ 'കുക്കറമ്മ' ആര്?
*https://www.mathrubhumi.com/women/features/dubbing-artist-sreeja-ravi-share-her-experience-on-working-in-film-industry-1.4963053 *https://malayalam.samayam.com/malayalam-cinema/movie-news/facebook-post-about-dubbing-artist-sreeja-ravi-who-acted-in-varane-avashyamund-goes-viral/articleshow/74023294.cms {{DEFAULTSORT:Ravi, Sreeja Indian voice actresses Living people Actresses from Chennai Kerala State Film Award winners Actresses in Tamil cinema Actresses in Malayalam cinema Indian film actresses 21st-century Indian actresses 20th-century Indian actresses Year of birth missing (living people)

Personal life

Career

Acting

Dubbing career

Filmography as voice actress

Malayalam

Tamil

Dialogues or effects between songs

Filmography as actress

Malayalam

Tamil

TV serials and ads

Awards

See also

References

Notes