Major Ravi

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Major Ravi is a former Indian army officer and a malayalam film director.

He is a recipient of the President's medal, joined the Indian army as a jawan in 1975 and graduated from the Army Cadet College to become a commando in the year 1988. After working for around two decades for the Indian Army, he became a military consultant for Indian films. He has worked with the likes of Priyadarshan, Rajkumar Santhoshi(Pukar), Kamal Haasan(Aalavandan), Mani Ratnam (Kannathil Muthamittal). He has earlier made a children's film but his first feature film is Mohanlal starring Kirtichakra, a film on Kashmir militancy and is multilingual. He has been associated with many Hindi and Malayalam films before directing on his own. His first firm brought applause from many corners. It has been a novel theme and it brought out the near real picture of the war torn Kashmir valley.

His second movie mission 90 days was his own experience of the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case. The film was technically perfect.. But,since the story was known to all it had few takers. The other reason is that the film did not have a punching climax that every commercial film demands as it did justice to the true incident of Rajiv Gandhi. He is currently working on his next project which is titled Kargil with a star cast consisting of Malayalam Megastar Mohanlal, Bollywood Macho Man Suniel Shetty and Atul Kulkarni. Also on the cards is Kandahar Hijack which will feature Mohnalal and Kamal Hassan for the first time in cinema.