Ravi Prakash is an Indian actor who primarily appears in

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films.

Career

Ravi was born in

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and grew up in

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, India. After completing his secondary education, he chose to pursue a career in medicine and studied for his MBBS degree in

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. During his university holidays, Ravi returned to Visakhapatnam and often took part in modelling, while also attending the Satyanand Acting Institute alongside his friends. He was spotted by the film studio,

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, who offered him the chance to play the leading role in their production, ''Subhavela'' (2000). Credited in the film as Ravikanth, his first film opened to mixed reviews and went unnoticed at the box office, with a critic noting the "newcomers fail to impress". The failure of the film prompted him to finish his degree and then train as a house surgeon, before he decided to concentrate on a career in the film industry. After his break, he was first offered the chance to portray a small role in '' Eeswar'' (2002), before developing a niche in portraying bigger supporting roles in films. Notably, he portrayed a police officer in

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'' (2004) and

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'' (2005). In the early 2010s, he featured in more Tamil films and notably appeared as a pilot in the heist drama '' Payanam'' (2011), as a police officer in the anthology film ''

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'' (2011), a villain in

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's action drama ''

Maattrraan ''Maattrraan'' () is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film co-written and directed by K. V. Anand and produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram, S. Ganesh and S. Suresh under the banner AGS Entertainment. It stars Suriya in dual roles, along ...

'' (2012) and as the lead actor's supportive brother in Gautham Menon ''

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'' (2012).

Notable filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prakash, Ravi Indian male film actors Male actors in Tamil cinema Living people Male actors in Telugu cinema Male actors from Visakhapatnam 21st-century Indian male actors Male actors from Vijayawada 1978 births Telugu male actors