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 . He was born in an

Indian-Indonesian Indian Indonesians ( id, Orang India Indonesia; ta, இந்திய இந்தோனேசியர்) are Indonesians whose ancestors whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore, this term can be regarded as ...

( Sindhi) family in

Surabaya Surabaya ( jv, ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ or jv, ꦯꦹꦫꦨꦪ; ; ) is the capital city of the Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesian province of East Java and the List of Indonesian cities by population, second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. L ...

, 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 ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere 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 bord ...

(1972 to 1982). He became a producer in the ' (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 Education, Culture, Research and Technology to celebrate cinematic achievements in ...

(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), ' (1987) and others. Soraya's career peak came after taking over production of the ''

Warkop DKI Warkop (an abbreviation of Warung Kopi, meaning "coffee stall") were an Indonesian comedy troupe that enjoyed success in radio, films and television over the 1980s and 1990s. Assembled in Jakarta on 1976 under Prambors management, they initially ...

'' series from

Raam Punjabi Raam Jethmal Punjabi ( sd, رام ڄيٺمل پنجابي) is an Indian-Indonesian media magnate and president of Cinema of Indonesia#1990s, Multivision Plus. In 2001, due to his production of soap operas, he was referred to as "Indonesia's own soa ...

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

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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