Ammanath Babu Chandran, popularly known as Idavela Babu or Edavela Babu, is a popular Malayalam film actor. He got his nickname "Idavela" from his first film Idavela in 1982. Idavela Babu was born to late V. Raman and Santha Raman on 11 August 1963 at Irinjalakuda in Thrissur District of Kerala. He has a brother Jayachandran who is doing business. He did his High Schooling at Govt. Model Boy's High School, Irinjalakuda and then took his Bcom degree from Christ College, Irinjalakuda. He is a popular household name as he has acted in more than 200 Telefilms, Serials, and Mega Serials on the Mini Screen. Other than these, he has worked as Anchor and given many live shows on Doordarshan, Asianet, Surya, Kairali and Indiavision Channels. He has also lent his voice for dubbing, to Heroes like Vineeth, Rahman, K.P.Kumar, Ashok Pothen, Dileep, Vishnu, Baiju etc. and is skilled in modeling too.