Sreeja Ravi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kannur, Kerala, India |
| Occupation | Voice artist |
| Spouse | Raveendranathan |
| Children | Raveena Ravi |
Sreeja Ravi is an Indian voice artist who has lent her dubbing voice to over 2000 films in total and also performed voices for numerous commercial ads. She started her dubbing career in the year 1975 for the movie Uttarayanam, directed by G. Aravindan.[1] She is the winner of four time Kerala State Film Award, one Tamil Nadu State Film Award and two Kerala Film Critics Awards for dubbing.[2]
Sreeja can speak Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, English and also Kannada, as she used those six major Indian languages to perform dubbing roles in foreign productions.[3]
Sreeja was born to Kunjukuttan, who was a mechanical engineer and Kannur Narayani, who was a theater and dubbing artist. After her father's death in 1972, the family moved to Chennai. Her mother started working as a dubbing artist and has acted in a few movies and dramas. Sreeja used to go to studios with her mother and eventually started dubbing. She has eight siblings, out of which two are no more. Her siblings are Manomohan, Madanmohan, Sreedharan, Prakashbabu, Rasiklal, Jyothish Kumar, Dr Vijayalakshmi Rajan Singh and Premasudha Krishnankutty.
She is married to Raveendranathan. The couple has a daughter, Raveena Ravi, who is also a dubbing artist in Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu.
In starting of her career, she acted some films like Manassu (1973), Sethubandhanam (1974) & Raathriyile Yaathrakkaar (1976).
She appeared in a small role in Kandukonden Kandukonden (2000) as a programmer who is pregnant, with whom Tabu talks about the difficulties in finding a house.
She played the character of Cookeramma in Anoop Sathyan's Varane Aavashyamundu (2020) along with Shobhana, K.P.A.C. Lalitha, Dulquer Salman & Kalyani Priyadarshan.[4] She also appeared in Jimmy Ee Veedinte Aiswaryam (2019).
Sreeja Ravi was introduced as a dialogue writer and was involved in the dubbing direction for the Tamil and Malayalam dubbed version of Shaakuntalam directed by Gunasekhar, where she did dub for Gautami and Aditi Balan in Tamil.
She started her dubbing career on films like Thambu and Uttarayanam as crowd voice. Then slowly started to give voice for child artists. Her first film for give voice to heroine was Ilaneer. But Kattathe Kilikkoodu was make her popular on Malayalam film industry. In it she dubbed for Revathi and Master Prashobh.[5]
She mostly dubbed for actresses like Kavya Madhavan, Divya Unni, Shalini, Gopika, Devayani, Sunitha, Charmila, Nayanthara and Roma.
Ravi works as a voice actress in Telugu, Kannada & Bollywood industries, apart from the Malayalam & Tamil film industries.[citation needed]
| Year | Language | Film | For Whom |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Kannada | Aapadbandhava | Baby Sujitha |
| Telugu | Pasivadi Pranam | Baby Sujitha | |
| 1988 | Hindi | Hatya | Baby Sujitha |
| 2003 | Three Roses | Jyothika | |
| 2004 | Telugu | Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi | Navaneet Kaur |
| 2006 | Kannada | My Autograph | Sridevika |
| Year | Title | Film | Language | Composer | Co – artist | Dubbed for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | "Ente ellam ellam alle" | Meesa Madhavan | Malayalam | Vidyasagar | K. J. Yesudas & Sujatha Mohan | Kavya Madhavan |
| 2006 | "Pooncholai Kiliye" | Keerthichakra | Malayalam | Joshua Sridhar | Karthik & Asha G. Menon | Gopika |
| 2008 | "Mizhiyil Mizhiyil" | Mayabazaar | Malayalam | Rahul Raj | Srinivas & Sujatha Mohan | Sheela Kaur |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Manassu | ||
| 1974 | Sethubandhanam | ||
| 1976 | Raathriyile Yaathrakkaar | ||
| 1983 | Ee Yugam | ||
| 2019 | Jimmy Ee Veedinte Aishwaryam | Jimmy's Mother | |
| 2020 | Varane Avashyamund | Cookeramma | |
| 2021 | Vellakkuthira | ||
| 2022 | Rorschach | Lekha | |
| 2023 | Kadina Kadoramee Andakadaham | Nabeesa | [6] |
| 2023 | 2018 | Anoop's mother |
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Kandukondain Kandukondain | Valsala |
| 2012 | Nanban | Doctor |
| 2014 | Jeeva | - |
| Veeram | - | |
| 2015 | Paayum Puli | Jayaseelan's mother |
| Vedalam | Nurse | |
| 2017 | Yeman | Wife of Karunakaran |
| 2018 | Irumbu Thirai | Kathiravan's mother |
| Kaali | Bharath's Mother | |
| Maniyaar Kudumbam | Narthanga Swamy's mother | |
| 2019 | Petromax | Kamala |
| 2021 | Doctor | Varun's mother |
| 2021 | Annaatthe | Doctor |
| 2022 | Gatta Kusthi | Keerthi's mother |
| 2023 | Theera Kaadhal |
| Channel | Serial | Actress | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun TV | Soolam | Suvalakshmi | Parvathi/Amman |
| Velan | Seetha | Uma | |
| Raja Rajeswari | Malavika Avinash / Abitha | Raji | |
| Athi Pookal | Sandhya | Karpagam | |
| Jaya TV | Simran Thirai | Simran | |
| Surya TV | Naagakanyaka 1 | Mouni Roy | Shivanya |
| Valsalyam | Vaishali Thakkar | Damini | |
| Nandini | Nithya Ram | Nandini & Ganga |