He was not initially passionate about cinema until a friend from Dubai gave him an amateur camera in the early 2000s.
With that camera, Ravikumar taught himself filmmaking and made several short films from 2004 to the remainder of the decade.
After his stint at Naalaya Iyakunar, Ravikumar began to take cinema as his career, and became an assistant director under Nalan Kumarasamy during Soodhu Kavvum (2013).
He later made his feature directorial debut with the science fiction film Indru Netru Naalai (2015),[3][4][5] for which he won the Behindwoods Gold Medal for Best Screenplay Writer.
[10] An avid reader of Tamil literature, Ravikumar noted that such novels influence his thinking style.