Ravi Varma (stunt director)

Ravi Varma was born on 24 June 1974 to K Kalasaiah and Ningamma in Bangalore, Karnataka. He did his schooling in Bangalore Corporation School. He was once a autorickshaw driver.

Varma began his journey with Sandalwood in 1995 as a fight assistant. A breakthrough in his movie career happened when he assumed the role of action director in the Kannada film Dharma in 2004, in which the principal actor was Darshan. His biggest Sandalwood movie so far is Darshan's Sangoli Rayanna, an epic period movie filmed on a grand scale with 1000 actors. Ravi Varma entered the Telugu industry with Krishna Vamsi's Mahatma in 2009.

Varma's stunts in the South Indian film industry soon started making news in Bollywood and earned him a break with Prabhu Deva's R... Rajkumar in which Shahid Kapoor played the lead role. He also worked with superstars of bollywood such as Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn in the films Jai Ho,[1] Raees, and Action Jackson respectively. He has become one of the most sought-after stunt directors in Bollywood and South Indian film industry. His prime projects are Doddmane Hudga, Jaguar, Santhu Straight Forward, Dhruva, Rock On!! 2 and Machine.

Varma has received many awards from the Kannada and the Telugu film industries.[2] He has been conferred with the title Saahasa Saarvabouma[3] by the Kannada film industry. He has been conferred with an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Universal Global Peace University, Chennai.[4] He became the first technician in the film industry to get a doctorate.

• Ravi Varma at IMDb