Ravikumar, Winner Malayalam and Tamil actor pass on 71

Actor Ravikumar, who was popular as a romantic hero in Malayalam and Tamil films of the 1970s and 80s, died on Friday (April 4, 2025) in a private hospital in Chennai. He was 71 years old.

Born as the son of actor Bharati and filmmaker KMK Menon, who launched Sri Krishna Studio in Thiruvananthapuram – one of the first film studios in the Malayalam industry – Ravikumar grew up in a Milliu where cinema became a automatic career option. After characteristic in small roles, his first film with a soulful role came to Abraj Gaiety yathara (1975). Around the same period, he. Started in Tamil in Balchender Athygon (1977).

He had a permanent partnership with filmmaker IV Sasi. Ravikumar acted in more than 80 films of the director. He j. Sashikumar’s films were also regular.

He was in a memorable turn IV as an actor Eveval RavukalIn which he played the role of a college student Babu, who falls in love with a sex worker and eventually marries him, overcoming the opposition from the society around him. He tolerated himself for the audience after acting on screen in some evergreen romantic melodies such as ‘An S Swaram Puvidam’ and ‘Ayyaram Matalpukkal’. Compliant , Innovation (1977) and from ‘Mizihilanum’ Power (1980).

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In the era of Prem Nazir and Madhu, Ravikumar was one of the second-Rung heroes who played a non-vegetarian role. He was very sought to play a young romantic hero role in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In Tamil, he acted like popular films Youth (2002) and Shivaji (2007). He was also active in television serials for some time. After staying away from filmDom for a long time, he was included in some films CBI 5 (2022) and Aurattu (2022)In recent years.