Ravi Varma is an Indian actor. He worked in the Telugu film industry. He has been part of the famous Indian films Ghazi (2017) and Saaho (2019).
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Wiki/Biography
Ravi Varma was born on Monday, 29 September 1975 (age 47 years; as of 2022) in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh. His zodiac sign is Libra. He moved to Hyderabad with his parents when he was two years old. He completed his schooling in Hyderabad. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He pursued a Masters’s in Computers in the United States of America. He worked at Rediff, USA for two and half years after completing his education. He took up a three-month acting course at New York Film Academy which paved his path in the film industry.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 9″
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Ravi Varma (on the right) standing with famous Indian actor Ram Charan
Family
Parents & Siblings
There is not much information about his parents and siblings.
Wife & Children
He is married but there is not much information about his wife or children.
Career
Film
Ravi debuted in the Telugu film industry with a hit film, Vennela, in which he played the character of Sayed released in 2005. In 2015, he was the main lead Karthik in the film Calling Bell.
Poster of the film Calling Bell, starring Ravi Varma
He worked as a supporting actor in various films like Bommarillu (2006), Jalsa(2008), Terror (2016), Mithai (2019), The Ghost (2022), and Michael (2023). He appeared as Bobby in a Tamil film, Sathya, in 2017. He worked in two famous PAN Indian films, Ghazi (2017) his Hindi debut film, in which he appeared as Kamalakar Shinde, Battery Operator of the S21, and Saaho(2019) in which he played the character of Ajay.
Television
He worked in a Zee 5 series, Oru Oorla Oru Rajakumari, in which he appeared as Nesamani from 2018 to 2021. He appeared as a supporting actor in the web series SIN on the Telugu OTT channel Aha in 2020. He appeared as Nagendra on a famous Disney Hotstar Telugu show, 9 Hours, in 2022. He worked in the Sony Liv TV series Bad Trip released in March 2023.
Poster of web series Bad Trip
Awards, Honours, Achievements
- He received the best actor in negative role award for his web series 9 Hours at Indian Telly Streaming Awards for OTT in 2022.
Ravi Varma while receiving the best actor in a negative role award
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, he revealed that he learnt Kathak when he was in the third standard and learnt Bhangra for eight years. He used to do stage performances in his school and college.
- In his school days, he learnt mime (a theatrical technique to express emotions with gestures only) and gave several performances.
- During an interview, he said that he visited a local engineering college in Hyderabad to learn the mannerism of Muslim boys for the role in his first film Vennela.
- He revealed in an interview that his parents were very supportive when he told them about joining the film industry, but they suggested completing his graduation first.
- He likes actors Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Chiranjeevi in the Telugu film industry, Amitabh Bachchan in Bollywood, and Robert De Niro in Hollywood.
- His hobbies are listening to music and going out for long drives.
- He loves to watch cop films. His favourites are the Die Hard series and Beverly Hills Cop.
- He is a dog lover and owns two dogs, a German Shepherd dog, Roofus, and an Indies dog, Peaches.
Ravi Varma with his dogs
