From Master Ravi to Ravi Valecha..

By Vidhika D'Souza Last updated Oct 6, 2018

It's wonderful that Ravi Valecha's success is amazing. In the movies, he broke the record of Amitabh Bachchan, he also became the king of the hospitality area. Ravi is an example of how one has to be confident about his/her decision. A wise man once said that it is very important to know who you are, 'to make decisions, to show who you are'.

‘Chhotu tujhe bhook lagi hai kya..?’
In the movie ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’, this little child, Master Ravi stirred and melted every heart that heard this dialogue. This was the movie in which he justified his role and proved that he was in this for the long run.

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This small child played ‘Anthony’, Amitabh Bachchan’s childhood character in the film. He was also cast as Amitabh’s childhood character in the movie ‘Coolie’ too.

Let’s find out what he is up to after all those years and what he looks like..

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Ravi Valecha as Amitabh's character in Coolie — The name of this child is Master Ravi who had debuted with the film ‘Fakira’ in 1976, but he got more recognition from the movie ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ in 1977. This film brightened Master Ravi’s career overnight.
After this movie, Master Ravi worked in films such as ‘Desh Lovers’, ‘Shakti’ and ‘Coolie’. In these films, Master Ravi played the role of Amitabh’s childhood.

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Ravi Valecha — Master Ravi did more than 300 films in different languages in his career. So many movies Amitabh Bachchan or any Bollywood star has acted in as of now.

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Ravi Valecha Shashi Kapoor — While growing up, Valecha established himself in films and was known as Master Ravi for quite some time until he established himself as Ravi Valecha soon enough. He also worked in many TV shows which became quite popular. After acting in a string of films, he decided to make a career in the hospitality and pursued Masters in Hospitality and International Business from National Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

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Ravi-Valecha-2 — He now offers his hospitality services to India’s top private sector banks. According to the sources, he also gives training on personality development and other skills to children who aspire to make it big in hospitality.

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His decision of leaving the glamour world and going to another profession was not an easy task. But he proved his decision correct as today Ravi is the owner of his own business. Sharing his experience of working with Amitabh, he said that the star never makes you feel small (child artist) or junior, on the sets.

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Vidhika D'Souza

To most people writing spells boredom but to the obsessively refined eye, writing unravels mysteries and lets mere mortals time-travel. This author boasts of being versatile and admonishes against any scope of doubt when someone questions her vocabulary. Paradoxical, satirical and ironically so, a Neo-Modernist but a Shakespearean novel waiting to happen, she trudges on her Sherlock Holmes defined path in the quest to find what the future beholds. Do not question her writing for the pen is her mighty sword and her words might injure you.