SUPER ACTORS: Ravichandran

Thursday 28 June 2012

Ravichandran

Ravichandran (13 May 1940 – 25 July 2011) was a Malaysian-Tamil film actor who played lead roles in Tamil movies of the 1960s and 1970s. He has also acted in supporting roles in some recent Tamil movies, and had also directed a number of films.Ravichandran was born P.S. Raman in Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States. He moved to Tiruchirappalli, India in 1951, and studied at St. Joseph's College. He was married twice: his first marriage was to Malayalam actress Sheela, and they had a son, George; he was later married to Vimala, with whom he had a daughter, Lavanya, and two sons, Balaji and Hamsavardhan. Hamsavardhan and George also took up acting as a career, with Hamsavardhan starring in the film Manthiran, directed by his father. Lavanya has 2 daughters namely Abirami (elder) and Apparajitha (younger). Both studied at PSBB.