T G Ravi

T G Ravindranathan popularly known as T G Ravi is a Malayalam film actor mainly noted for his roles as a villain He along with Balan K Nair played most of the negative roles in Malayalam cinema during the late 1970s and the 1980s TG Ravi was born on 16 May 1944 in an Ezhuthachan family in Moorkanikkara village Thrissur in present day Kerala India Initially he chose to pursue a career in engineering and undertook his degree course through Kerala University in Government Engineering College Thrissur with a short stint in Mar Athanasius College of Engineering Kothamangalam He graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1969 Apart from involving in theatre arts he also represented the University of Kerala in Football and Hockey He was an artist at The All India Radio where he met Thikkodiyan who was instrumental in introducing him to the silver screen He is a noted industrialist and has been instrumental in developing Thrissur as a major base for the rubber based industries He is the Managing Director of Suntec Tyres Limited He has also served as the president of The Cochin Devaswom Board which controls the affairs of over 400 temples in Ernakulam Thrissur and Palakkad districts He was married to late Dr V K Subhadra a retired government servant He has two children Ranjith an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and London Business School and Sreejith Ravi a Mechanical Engineer from NIT Surathkal MBA from ICFAI Business School Bangalore and an upcoming film actor Seema Sajitha are his daughtersinlaw Milit Rijraswa Mitul are his grandsons and Minal is his granddaughter