MUMBAI: He’s 34-years-old in showbiz and has 750 projects to his credit today, actor-politician Ravi Kishan has looked back at his journey from the era of Doordarshan, to the time when strugglers had few avenues, and how the rise of OTT platforms revived his career, bringing him “back to life from darkness”.
Talking about his journey after 750 projects, Ravi told IANS: “When I started, there was only Doordarshan, no option for strugglers. There are 15 lakh strugglers in Mumbai. Then the time came, then the channel came, then the serials came and people started getting work.”
The Mumbai-born actor talked about how OTT turned out to be a whiff of fresh air for talents like him.
“Then what did OTT do? Actors like me, Manoj Bajpayee, Pankaj Tripathi, all my friends and colleagues, all of them were brought back to life by OTT from the world of darkness. It brought me back, ” said Ravi, who left an impressionable mark with his stint in the maiden season “Bigg Boss” with his catchphrase “Zindagi Jhandwa Fir Bhi Ghamandwa.”
He added that people thought of Ravi Kishan as just a “Bhojpuri superstar” or a “parliamentarian”.