[1] He has acted in several plays, such as Anna Weiss, Dance Like A Man, The Good Doctor[2] and provided voice-overs to numerous advertisements, documentaries and corporate shows.
[3] Ramakrishna did his schooling in Kolkata, India, and completed his undergraduate education at the Loyola College, Chennai.
Ramakrishna's early interests included learning the mridangam – an ancient Indian percussion instrument – and he trained under Palghat Mani Iyer in Chennai and Tanjavur.
He played mridangam for 18 years since the age of 3 and was considering making it a profession, but was discouraged by low wages for musicians.
[1] Instead, he joined the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and after graduation worked in the corporate sector from 1967 until voluntary retirement in 1993.