Sreeja 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 Ravi
Born
Kannur, Kerala, India
OccupationVoice artist
SpouseRaveendranathan
ChildrenRaveena Ravi

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]

Personal life

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.

Career

Acting

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.

Dubbing career

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.

Malayalam

Tamil
This list is incomplete.
YearFilmFor whom
1984Anbulla RajinikanthMaster Tinku
1985Japanil Kalyanaraman
1987Poovizhi VasalileBaby Sujitha
Rettai Vaal KuruviGopi's daughter (Climax scene)
Manathil Uruthi VendumBaby Vasanthi
1988Paadatha ThenikkalBaby Sujitha
1989Sandhya RaagamBaby Rajalakshmi
1992Vanna Vanna PookkalVinodhini
Unna Nenachen Pattu PadichenMonisha Unni
1993I Love IndiaShenbaga
GentlemanSubhashri
1995Sathi LeelavathiHeera
CriminalManisha Koirala
Thotta Chinungi Devayani
1996Kadhal Kottai
MahaprabhuVineetha
NetajiLisa Ray
Gokulathil SeethaiSuvaluxmi
1997PudhayalRoopa Sree
Vivasaayi MaganDevayani
Kaadhali
Raman AbdullahAshwini
Kaalamellam Kadhal VaazhgaKausalya
Vaimaye VellumRachna Banerjee
Love TodaySuvaluxmi
Nerukku NerSimran
Kadhalukku MariyadhaiShalini
1998Ninaithen Vandhai Devayani
Pudhumaipithan
Marumalarchi
Udhavikku Varalaamaa
PonmanamSuvaluxmi
Santhosham
Kavalai Padathe Sagodhara
En Aasai Rasave
Dhinamdhorum
UnnudanKausalya
Kaadhale NimmadhiJividha Sharma
Desiya GeethamRambha
1999AmarkalamShalini
Kanave KalaiyadheSimran
Ponnu VeettukaaranPreetha Vijayakumar
Pooparika VarugiromMalavika
Kadhal KavithaiKasthuri
OruvanPooja Batra
SangamamVindhya
KallazhagarAshwini
2000Vaanathaipola Kausalya
Eazhaiyin Sirippil
MaayiSuvaluxmi
PaattaliDevayani
EnnavaleAshwini
Kannukkul Nilavu Shalini
2001Piriyadha Varam Vendum
En Purushan Kuzhandhai MaathiriVindhya
FriendsVijayalakshmi
BadriBhumika Chawla
Kanna Unnai ThedukirenSuvaluxmi
MinnaleRaji Iyer (Reemasen's Friend)
KasiAishwarya, Kaveri
AnandhamRambha
DhillLaila
Parthale ParavasamRadhika Chaudhari
Alli Thandha VaanamNeha
Vadagupatti MaapillaiReshma
2002Alli ArjunaRicha Pallod
KamarasuLaila
Thenkasi PattanamAswathi Menon
En Mana VaanilKavya Madhavan
20033 RosesRambha
Enakku 20 Unakku 18Trisha's Friend
Kadhal SugamanathuSneha
Anbe Un VasamRathi Arumugam
IcePriyanka Trivedi
Yes MadamVindhya
2005MajaaAnu Prabhakar
2011KavalanMithra Kurian and Phone portion of Asin
2012NeerparavaiChurch Mother
Ivan VeramathiriCharmila
2018MohiniRama
2019Ayogya Pavitra Lokesh
2020VanmuraiCharmila

Ravi works as a voice actress in Telugu, Kannada & Bollywood industries, apart from the Malayalam & Tamil film industries.

YearLanguageFilmFor Whom
1987KannadaAapadbandhavaBaby Sujitha
TeluguPasivadi Pranam
1988HindiHatya
2003Three RosesJyothika
2004TeluguSeenu Vasanthi LakshmiNavaneet Kaur
2006KannadaMy AutographSridevika

Dialogues or effects between songs
Year Title Film Language Composer Co – artist Dubbed for
2002"Ente ellam ellam alle"Meesa MadhavanMalayalamVidyasagarK. J. Yesudas & Sujatha MohanKavya Madhavan
2006"Pooncholai Kiliye"KeerthichakraJoshua SridharKarthik & Asha G. MenonGopika
2008"Mizhiyil Mizhiyil"MayabazaarRahul RajSrinivas & Sujatha MohanSheela Kaur

Filmography as Actress

Malayalam
YearTitleRoleNotes
1973Manassu
1974Sethubandhanam
1976Raathriyile Yaathrakkaar
1983Ee Yugam
2019Jimmy Ee Veedinte AishwaryamJimmy's Mother
2020Varane AvashyamundCookeramma
2021Vellakkuthira
2022RorschachLekha
2023Kadina Kadoramee AndakadahamNabeesa[6]
20232018Anoop's mother

Tamil
YearFilmRole
2000Kandukondain KandukondainValsala
2012Nanban Doctor
2014 Jeeva -
Veeram-
2015 Paayum PuliJayaseelan's mother
VedalamNurse
2017YemanWife of Karunakaran
2018 Irumbu ThiraiKathiravan's mother
KaaliBharath's Mother
Maniyaar KudumbamNarthanga Swamy's mother
2019PetromaxKamala
2021DoctorVarun's mother
AnnaattheDoctor
2022Gatta KusthiKeerthi's mother
2023Theera Kaadhal

TV serials and ads
Dubbing
ChannelSerialActressCharacter
Sun TVSoolamSuvalakshmiParvathi/Amman
VelanSeethaUma
Raja RajeswariMalavika Avinash / AbithaRaji
Athi PookalSandhyaKarpagam
Jaya TVSimran ThiraiSimran
Surya TVNaagakanyaka 1Mouni RoyShivanya
ValsalyamVaishali ThakkarDamini
NandiniNithya RamNandini & Ganga
Ads
YearAdActress
2014 Nirapara Sambar Kavya Madhavan
2015 Nirapara Sambar
Nirapara Veg Pickle
Nirapara Pathiri
Nirapara Fish Masala
Nirapara Dosa Podi
Nirapara Varutharacha Masala
Nirapara Coriander Powder
Nirapara Veg Pickle Akshara Kishore

Awards
Award for best dubbing artist
YearAwardFilmFor
1997 Kerala State Film Awards Aniyathi Pravu Shalini
1998 Kerala State Film Awards Aakasha Ganga Divya Unni
Achamakuttiyude Achayan Chippy
The Godman Vani Viswanath
2001 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards Dhil Laila
2003 Kerala Film Critics Awards Manassinakkare Nayanthara
2007 Paranju Theeratha Visheshangal Lakshmi Gopalaswami
2008 Kerala State Film Awards Minnaminnikkoottam Roma
2013 Ayaal Ineya

See also
  • List of Indian Dubbing Artists
  • Raveena Ravi
  • Kerala State Film Award for Best Dubbing Artist
  • Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Female Dubbing Artist

References
  1. Cinema-ormmakal (7 May 2011). ". Cinema Ormmakal: Dubbing Artists 1". cinema-ormmakal.blogspot.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  2. "When Ajith sparked a huge surprise to a dubbing artist - Tamil News". 22 October 2016.
  3. "no info". Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  4. "ഈ ശബ്ദം കാവ്യ മാധവന്‍റേയോ ദിവ്യ ഉണ്ണിയുടെയോ, അതോ...; പ്രേക്ഷകരെ കണ്‍ഫ്യൂഷനാക്കിയ 'കുക്കറമ്മ' ആര്?".
  5. "'എനിക്കിനിയൊരു സ്വാഭാവിക ജീവിതം ഉണ്ടാകില്ലെന്ന് ന്യൂറോ സര്‍ജന്‍ അന്ന് വിധിയെഴുതി'; ശ്രീജ പറയുന്നു".
  6. "Kadina Kadoramee Andakadaham trailer is out". Cinema Express. Retrieved 21 April 2023.

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