Besant Ravi

Besant Ravi
Born	R. Ravikumar (1970-06-01) June 1, 1970 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Film actor, stuntman
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	R. Prabhavathy
Children	RP. Suvetha Shri, RP. Pranav

R. Ravikumar (born 1 February 1970), known as Besant Ravi is an Indian actor and stunt choreographer. He has played antagonistic supporting roles in Tamil, Hindi and several other Indian language films.

Early life

Besant Ravi, who was born and brought up in Chennai, was a bike mechanic in his early stages of life, and all through his childhood days, he grew up watching film shootings near his house in Besant Nagar. He soon became familiar with the artists and technicians on the sets. Besant Ravi is expert in Mixed martial arts and boxing. He got his first break in cinema in the movie Lucky Man.

Career

He got his first break in cinema in the movie Lucky Man, in which he performed a solo stunt, then he got trained professionally for cinema by stunt master Pandiyan. He started his career as a fighter and later moved into acting in several action sequences. Later, he got many offers to enter into the acting arena and got busy with acting. Director S. Shankar's Mudhalvan was noted among his projects.

Kollywood

He started his career with Lucky Man and was doing several movies in Tamil and other languages, but his acting career started getting acclaimed with Director Shankar's Mudhalvan, in which he performed a bus jump sequence, which was appreciated by the director S. Shankar and he gifted him a 500 rupee note signed by him after the shoot. Later, he got busy with acting several movies. Among those, he acted in Ponnar Shankar, which was written by Former CM M. Karunanidhi; and M. Karunanidhi admired his performance in the film.

Bollywood

After Kollywood his career in Bollywood started with the racy director Rohit Shetty, with the film Singham in 2011. His career break was in 2013 when he did the role of "Periya anna" in the Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starring Chennai Express, directed by Shetty.

Filmography

Tamil

• Lucky Man (1995)
• Mudhalvan (1999)
• Ennamma Kannu (2000)
• Kushi (2000)
• Vanna Thamizh Pattu (2000)
• Appu (2000)
• Parthen Rasithen (2000)
• Thamizh (2002)
• Dheena (2001)
• Dhost (2001)
• Citizen (2001)
• Aanandham (2001)
• Majunu (2001)
• Ezhumalai (2002)
• Charlie Chaplin (2002)
• Thamizhan (2002)
• Raajjiyam (2002)
• Thenkasi Pattanam (2002)
• Manasellam (2003)
• Three Roses (2003)
• Villain (2002)
• Chokka Thangam (2003)
• Saamy (2003)
• Dum (2003)
• Pudhiya Geethai (2003)
• Sivamani (2003)
• Anjaneya (2003)
• Kuththu (2004)
• Suyetchai MLA (2006)
• Agaram (2007)
• Arul (2004)
• Jore (2004)
• Sullan (2004)
• Maayavi (2005)
• Anniyan (2005)
• Englishkaran (2005)
• Chinna (2005)
• Aayudham (2005)
• Kusthi (2006)
• Thagapansamy (2006)
• Saravana (2006)
• Sudesi (2006)
• Thalaimagan (2006)
• Thagapansamy (2006)
• Thalai Nagaram (2006)
• Suriyan (2006)
• Pokkiri (2007)
• Deepavali (2007)
• Mayavi (2007)
• Nam Naadu (2007)
• Thotta (2008)
• Aandavan (2008)
• Ellam Avan Seyal (2008)
• Vasool (2008)
• Kabadi Kabadi (2008)
• Yogi (2009)
• Perumal (2009)
• Ainthaam Padai (2009)
• Suryan Satta Kalloori (2009)
• Singam (2010)
• Pen Singam (2010)
• Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam (2010)
• Manthrikan (2010)
• Ponnar Shankar (film) (2011)
• Vai Raja Vai (2015)
• Puthagam (2013)
• Pattathu Yaanai (2013)
• Sonpapadi (2013)
• Tenaliraman (2014)
• Kakki Sattai (2015)
• Eli (2015)
• Gethu (2016)

Telugu

• Nenu Premisthunnanu (1997)
• Tholi Valapu (2001)
• Hanuman Junction (2001)
• Commander Jayanthi (2002)
• Andhrawala (2004)
• Villain (2002)
• Andhrawala (2004)
• Suryam (2005)
• Annavaram
• Madesha (2008)
• Bujjigadu (2008)
• Ragada (2010)

Malayalam

• Black (2004 film) (2004)
• Chattambinadu (2009)
• Black Stallion (2010)
• Christian Brothers (2011)
• Shikkaar
• Aravindante Athithikal (2018)

Kannada

• Veera Kannadiga (2004)
• Nalla (2005)
• Shy (2006)

Hindi

• Singham (2011)
• Policegiri (2013)
• Chennai Express (2013)

Bengali

• Bikram Singha: The Lion Is Back (2012)