Ravi Kishan opens up about his troubled relationship with father: ‘He wanted to kill me, mother said run away’

The actor said that his father was taken aback when he started performing in the neighbourhood Ramleela and would punish him for this. However, in the end, his father was very proud of him and even had tears in his eyes on his deathbed.
In an interview with Brut, Ravi Kishan said that he had to elope from his house at the age of 17 because of his father’s anger. “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 said that with Rs 500 in his pocket, he took a train to Mumbai and left home.

The actor, however, justified his father’s behavior and said, “He was a priest and being a brahmin, he always wanted me to do farming or become a priest or do some government job. He never thought an artist can be born in his family. So dancing or playing the role of Sita in Ramleela was a bit shocking for him. Woh maarte the aur maine zindagi ko seekha. So every beating from him was a lesson for me and he made Ravi Kishan.”

The actor said that towards the end, his father was finally happy with him because he had started earning a lot of money. Before his death, there were tears in his eyes and said ‘tum humare gaurav ho (you are our pride). “I was very clear from my childhood that I didn’t want an unknown death. Everyone is born with a reason and my reason made me ‘Ravi Kishan,” he said.

On the work front, Kishan was also seen in Maamla Legal Hai. The series is currently streaming on Netflix.