Besant Nagar Ravi is known for his negative performances in movies in
South Indian film Industry. He was initially a stunt man before he
turned into an actor in movies. Ravi was always into fights and action.
He is a trained boxer and martial artist.
One fine day, there was shooting that was taking place near his house
in Besant Nagar which fascinated to such an extent that he decided to
enter into the film industry using his capabilities and training in action
and, therefore, leave his mark in films. It was because of his undying
faith in himself and a wild passion for this inclination of his, he started
taking Pandian training in fighting from a master.
He made his debut appearance in a film called Lucky Man, but he
gained his share of fame and success only after doing a film named
Madhulavan.
Ravi is extremely talented and has approximately 170 films to his name
which don’t limit itself to just one language but are in all the south
Indian languages.
He has been in headlines for his stunts that he does for movies which
are more often than not extremely fatal and death defying. He does
stunts that can make you hold your breath or can make you question
the entire law of gravity as a whole. He, however, says that the safety
measures that were taken in his initial days weren’t as good as they are
now which has reduced the risk to a great extent and this makes him
feel proud of the progress of his film industry.
He also has to his name
the record of doing fight sequences in Tamil movies which are believed
to be the longest so far.
Apart from making his presence known in south Indian movies, he has
also been successful and known in Hindi films too because of his role in
a remake named Singham. It was a replica of Singam which was a Tamil
movie. He also plays a recurring role of Deepika’s ruffian cousin in the
movie
Chennai Express
which had
Shah Rukh Khan
as one of the leads.