Ravi Kishan: 'Despite working with Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, my Bollywood career didn't take off, I then started...'

Ravi Kishan has done multiple Hindi films in his career and has an experience of over three decades. He has done films like Keemat, Army, Tere Naam, Phir Hera Pheri, Aan, Mukkabaaz, Raavan, Luck, Mission Raniganj. The actor was recently seen in Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapata Ladies’ and Netflix’s ‘Maamla Legal Hai’.

However, he recently said in an interview with Brut India his Bollywood career didn’t take off despite working with the biggest and the best. Kishan revealed, “I was there, thinking that one fine day my sunrise will also come. In the 1990s, Akshay Kumar and all these friends of ours had come. I am from the ’90s lot too. I thought, I am also 6 feet tall, I have a good voice, a body, but I didn’t get work. I did Army, Tere Naam… several films with Mithun Chakraborty, Dharmendra, but I was not getting a hit.”

The actor added, “One fine day I realised… and in anger and hurt I started my own industry, the Bhojpuri industry. I made myself a superstar there. The country’s audience supported me. And today, one lakh people have found employment in that industry.”

Also, Ravi Kishan recently opened up about his troubled relationship with his father. The Bhojpuri star said that his father was shocked to see him perform in Ramleela and later used to punish him for that. However, in the end, he was proud of him and his success.

“My father was beating me very badly and he was hammering me. He wanted to kill me and my mother was aware that her husband is capable of killing me and he will not hesitate because priests have less emotions. So she said ‘bhaag jao.’,” the actor told Brut while revealing that he had Rs 500 in his pocket and left home and took the train to Mumbai.