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Mumbai Behind the glamor of the film world, there is often a long journey of dark streets, and Ravi Kishan is the biggest example of this. Today everyone may be praising VD Tyagi of ‘Masla Legal Hai’ or Inspector Manohar of ‘Missing Ladies’, but Ravi Kishan has waited for 34 years to reach this point. Recently in an interview, while describing his heart condition, he said that there was a time when he started feeling that now everything is over and he is out of this crowded race of the film industry.

Salman Khan’s film ‘Tere Naam’ (2003) could have proved to be a big turning point in Ravi Kishan’s career, but the reality was the opposite. Ravi says that after that film, he almost stopped getting work in Hindi cinema. He was very tired and despair was beginning to overwhelm him. He realized that there is so much crowd in Bollywood that there is no one there to listen to him. However, he never blamed the industry for this failure, rather he directed his anger and energy towards Bhojpuri cinema. The result was that he became the uncrowned king of Bhojpuri films, but his distance from the mainstream of Hindi cinema remained.

The turn Ravi Kishan’s career has taken in the last few years has surprised everyone. Ravi Kishan says, “When people started feeling that I am left only in politics or that now I have grown old and I will gradually disappear, then God blessed me.” Kiran Rao’s film ‘Lapata Ladies’ gave a new identity to his acting. After this, series like ‘Maamla Legal Hai’ proved what wonders an experienced artist can do if he gets the right content. Ravi believes that his journey is an example for all those struggling artists who give up midway.

Currently he is in the news for the film ‘Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain: Fun on the Run’. In this film, he is playing the character of a lover whose love is one-sided. Ravi Kishan says that he meets many such people from UP-Bihar in real life, so it was quite easy for him to play this character. Ravi Kishan is now very humble on the success he got after this long wait of 34 years. They say it’s all a game of ‘rising sun’. The love he is getting today from the audience and film makers is the sweet fruit of his years of patience and hard work. This story of Ravi Kishan teaches that the biggest victory is to stick to the pitch of acting.