Actor · Telugu cinema
Ravi Kishan
Ravi Kishan movies: 12 Telugu films on file, 2014–2026. Earliest on file: Race Gurram (2014). Latest release: Peddi (4 June 2026).
- Films on file
- 12 (12 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2014–2026
- Born
- 17 July 1971 · July birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, Race Gurram, Daaku Maharaaj
- Record
- Q7296641 on Wikidata
Ravi Kishan (born Ravindra Kishan Shukla, 17 July 1969) is an Indian actor, politician, film producer and television personality. He has appeared in over 200 films, mostly in Bhojpuri and Hindi cinema, along with several Telugu and Kannada films, and has represented Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha since 2019. For Telugu audiences he is best known for his debut in Race Gurram (2014). He won the Filmfare and IIFA awards for Best Supporting Actor for Laapataa Ladies (2024), and in 2025 received a Sansad Ratna award for his parliamentary work.
Early life
Ravi Kishan was born in Bombay, the youngest of five siblings, and studied up to class 12 at Rizvi College in Bandra West. His family comes from Kerakat in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, where he lived for about seven years.
From Hindi to Bhojpuri stardom
Through the 1990s he played supporting roles in Hindi films, and he drew attention with Tere Naam (2003). He then moved into Bhojpuri cinema, where he quickly broke through as a leading man and became a star across the Bhojpuri-speaking region. In June 2008 he was named Most Popular Actor at the ETV Bhojpuri Cinema Samman. His Bhojpuri film Jala Debh Duniya Tohra Pyar Mein, produced by the American company PUN Films, was shown in the India Pavilion at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and in 2008 he voiced Spider-Man in the Bhojpuri dub of Spider-Man 3, the first Hollywood blockbuster dubbed into the language.
Hindi films
Alongside his Bhojpuri career he kept working in Hindi cinema, in films including Phir Hera Pheri (2006), 1971 (2007), Luck (2009), Raavan (2010), Agent Vinod (2012), Bullet Raja (2013), Mukkabaaz (2017) and Batla House (2019). In 2010 he worked with the directors Shyam Benegal and Mani Ratnam. His supporting role in Laapataa Ladies brought him both the Filmfare and IIFA awards.
Telugu and other languages
Ravi Kishan made his Telugu debut in Race Gurram in 2014 and later appeared in the Telugu film MLA in 2018. He made his Kannada debut in Hebbuli in 2017, while his Tamil debut, Monisha En Monalisa, dates back to 1999.
Television
Kishan took part in Bigg Boss in 2006, and reality television helped make him one of the country’s best-known TV faces. He co-hosted Bathroom Singer, Naman: Ek Sansani and Ek Se Badhkar Ek – Jalwe Sitaron Ke on Zee, hosted two seasons of Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka on NDTV Imagine, and in 2013 was a judge on ETV’s Sales Ka Bazigar, a search for the best salesperson in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Politics
He contested the 2014 general election from Jaunpur for the Indian National Congress and finished sixth. In February 2017 he joined the BJP, which fielded him in Gorakhpur in 2019; he won that seat and retained it in 2024.
Personal life
Ravi Kishan married Priti Shukla on 10 December 1993, and they have a son and three daughters. Their daughter Riva Kishan made her film debut in Sab Kushal Mangal (2020), and another daughter, Ishita, joined the Indian Army in June 2023.
Career on file
Ravi Kishan appears in 12 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2014 to 2026. The earliest of them is Race Gurram (2014), and the most recent release is Peddi (2026). Measured by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them, the best-known titles here are Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019), Race Gurram (2014) and Daaku Maharaaj (2025). Other recent releases on file are N.T.R: Kathanayukudu (2019), Saakshyam (2018) and MLA (2018).
Brahmanandam and Jagapati Babu are the most frequent co-stars, each sharing three films with Ravi Kishan, followed by Nandamuri Balakrishna (2) and Nandamuri Kalyan Ram (2). Among directors, Surender Reddy cast Ravi Kishan most often, in three films. Mani Sharma and S. Thaman each scored two of them, more than any other music director. Across these films the credits on file name 10 different directors, 10 music directors and 44 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 11 of them; they average 155 minutes, and the longest is Peddi at 189 minutes. Eight of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2010s (10) and 2020s (2).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.