The latest episode of India TV’s iconic show Aap Ki Adalat featured Bhojpuri superstar and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ravi Kishan. Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India TV rajat sharma he roasted the actor and made him reveal some secrets on the show. Ravi Kishan candidly answered Rajat Sharma’s questions about his journey from cinema to politics, while winning the hearts of the audience with his many popular dialogues, he revealed that Rs 300-400 crore has been invested in his face.
In response to questions from Rajat Sharma, Ravi Kishan said, “I am a vegetarian, a devotee of Lord Shiva, and I exercise every day for one to one and a half hours. Others have businesses, but I don’t have any business. I myself i am an industry At the moment, Rs 300-400 crore has been invested in movies, Netflix and web series including one with akshay kumar. I’ll have to be careful. I have to keep my producers alive.”
Rajat Sharma also questioned the Bhojpuri star who is considered to be the Dev Anand of Bhojpuri movies. Why does he bring new heroines in every movie? Names like Nagma, Rambha, Bageshwari, Rani Chatterjee, Mona Lisa, Prateeksha, Neha Tiwari, Anjana Singh, Sangeeta Tiwari?
To which Ravi Kishan wittily replied, “I used to work three shifts. I used to shoot 3 movies, even seven movies a day. My fans wanted me to appear in newer roles and with new heroines. Actresses used to for become stars some got busy.I was building the industry(Bhojpuri).In my third phase,I needed more artists.I felt if there are more heroines, there will be more heroes and the industry will be bigger.I introduced many actresses and trained them. .. The Bhojpuri community is very large, with almost 25 million people. Their life is full of music and dance, from birth to death. We have a culture full of colour, spirituality, literature and earthiness. That is why the Most of the movie names are very colorful, so people can de-stress and enjoy themselves for at least two hours.”
Rajat Sharma also roasted the actor and asked him about his songs with derogatory lyrics. He inquired about the song from the Bhojpuri film ‘Tohar lehanga uthai deb remote se’. To which Ravi Kishan apologized and said, “Today here on this show in front of the whole world, I want to apologize by grabbing my ears. I didn’t sing this song. It was sung by Udit Bhaiya (Udit Narayan). As I was doing three shifts a day, I went to one of the sets, and the song started playing. I had to act and then go to another session. I’m a spontaneous actor, I do less homework, I read less, and I go directly to the set and act.”
Ravi Kishan contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from his hometown Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh as a Congress candidate but polled only 42,759 votes or 4.25 percent of the total vote.
About Aap Ki Adalat
Since its inception in 1993, Aap Ki Adalat has some staggering numbers associated with it. The videos of the program have more than 1,700 million views on digital platforms. Currently, Aap Ki Adalat is the number 1 program in its time slot within the news genre. Aap Ki Adalat is the most watched news show in the world among TV news channels on YouTube.
