Ravi Kishan steps out to help the industry's wage-earning workers

Ravi Kishan, Hindi-Bhojpuri actor-turned-MP, has been providing a kit full of essentials to workers, technicians, junior artistes and lesser-privileged actors from the Bhojpuri and Hindi fraternity everyday for the last couple of days. The actor has been using his own savings (not to be confused with the MP funds) to provide a five-kilo bag that contains rice, daal, wheat flour, masalas, cooking oil, sugar, tea, milk powder.For the last three days, he has been catering to about a hundred people everyday, with a five-kilo pack each.
The actor, who has been doing this in Mumbai with his staff, has also started the exercise in Gorakhpur and Jaunpur in UP and in a suburb in Delhi. He has been monitoring the activity in other cities with the help of his team that has been on the ground since the last few days with protective gear on.
Talking about it, Ravi told BT, “Hum kya leke aaye the iss industry mein? I was a big zero when I started off. I have worked closely with workers to understand their problems, unki takleef aur majboori samajhta hoon main. Yeh log roz kuan khod kar paani peenewalon mein se hain. The film industry has given me everything I have today. Yahin ka paisa hai, yahin kharch kar raha hoon. I plan to continue distributing essentials to those in need till the end of April, at least. If the lockdown continues further, I will arrange for more essentials and distribute them. Koi bhookha nahi soyega. Unfortunately, there are a lot of workers in areas like Mira Road, Dahisar and beyond which are beyond my reach given the lockdown. But everyone who lives in and around my area, or even a little far off, has been coming to my house, showing their industry card and taking home essentials. I am trying to provide enough for them to bide a few days at a time. In fact, I also send supplies to the homes of certain actors who are finding it tough to sail through right now. Every morning my team takes my car and delivers stuff to these actors. If you have anything extra in your pocket today, you are privileged and you must pass it on to someone who is not.”