Ravi (composer)

This article is about the music director. For the Sitar player, see Ravi Shankar.
"Ravi Sharma" redirects here. For the Communist Party of India (Maoist) politician, see Ravi Sharma (Maoist).

Ravi
Background information
Birth nameRavi Shankar Sharma
Born(1926-03-03)3 March 1926
Delhi, India
Died7 March 2012(2012-03-07) (aged 86)[1]
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OccupationFilm music director
Years active1955–2005

Ravi Shankar Sharma (3 March 1926 – 7 March 2012), often referred mononymously as Ravi, was an Indian music director who had composed music for several Hindi and Malayalam films.[2]

After a successful career in Hindi cinema, he took a hiatus in the 1970s and made a successful comeback in 1982 in the Malayalam music scene under the stage name Bombay Ravi.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference death was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Ravi (composer) filmography". Upperstall.com website. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  3. ^ Vijayakar, Rajiv (16 March 2012). "Remembering Ravi – Indian Express". Indian Express. Retrieved 5 June 2020.