Want to make a Bhojpuri biopic on Narendra Modi: Ravi Kishan

Actor-turned-politician Ravi Kishan on Monday said he wanted to make a biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bhojpuri, the dialect which brought him stardom after years-long struggle in Bollywood.

Kishan - who wrested back for the BJP the prestigious Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat earlier this year- said he decided to join the party after Modi's call for eradicating open defecation struck a chord with him.

"I come from a village where homes did not have toilets. I have seen my mother and other womenfolk suffer health problems and humiliation on this account. When Modi gave the clarion call for bringing an end to open defecation, I felt here is a man speaking about an issue close to my heart," Kishan told reporters at the Bihar BJP headquarters.

Showering praises on the prime minister for having instilled nationalistic pride in the people of the country, he said "chants of Bharat Mata ki Jai are energizing".

"Unfortunately, we had been deprived of this legacy in the post-Independence era. Now, the blunders of Nehru are being corrected through abrogation of Article 370."
"I want to make serious films. I want to make a biopic on Modi in Bhojpuri. As an actor, I know how raw and real depiction of our leader can be made. I also wish to make Bhojpuri movies on Swami Vivekananda and revolutionary freedom fighters from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh."