Mirzapur The Movie Makers Describe Ravi Kishan as a ‘Green Flag Gangster’: ‘He Even Sews Clothes’

The makers of ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ have revealed that Ravi Kishan’s gangster character, Babban Babua Yadav, became so popular during the climax that they feared audiences might stop rooting for the franchise’s original favourites.

In a recent interview, director Gurmeet Singh and writer Puneet Krishna, who also created the original Mirzapur series, discussed Kishan’s character and the challenge of balancing his emotional impact with the stories of Guddu, Bablu and Munna.

Ravi Kishan joined the film’s cast as Babban Babua Yadav, a gangster whose relationship with Mumtaz added an unexpected emotional layer to the character.

“Many young girls have said that Babban is a very ‘green flag gangster’ (laughs). He’s so devoted that he even sews clothes for his Mumtaz. Forget being a gangster, how many men would do that?” Puneet Krishna said.

The writer admitted that Babban’s popularity became a concern while putting together the climax.

“We actually started getting scared that people will feel for him so much in that climax scene that they may stop rooting for Guddu, Bablu and Munna,” Krishna said.

Director Gurmeet Singh revealed that the team had to make changes to the emotional balance of the climax after realising how strongly audiences responded to Kishan’s character.

“We even had to ‘water down’ her death. It was very emotional and was almost working against the film. We had to really amp up the Chandu Puncture (Satendra Soni) death and make that feel cruel to balance it out, because people fell in love with Ravi Kishan’s character,” Singh said.

The director said another major challenge was keeping the climax engaging despite audiences already being familiar with the central characters and their survival.

“The brutal thing was we knew a lot of the audience would know the story, and we had nobody to kill off in terms of our guys (Guddu, Bablu and Munna). So, just keeping that fight engaging was the biggest challenge that I faced,” he explained.

Singh also recalled uncertainty over whether a key moment involving Guddu would work with the audience.

“Also, whether that ‘Guddu getting-up’ moment would work, but it did, and the audience went mad,” he said.

About ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’

Mirzapur: The Movie is an action-crime thriller directed by Gurmeet Singh in his feature-film debut. The screenplay has been written by Puneet Krishna, while Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar have produced the film under Excel Entertainment.

The movie is based on the popular Prime Video series Mirzapur and brings back several of its central characters.

The cast includes Pankaj Tripathi as Akhandanand ‘Kaleen’ Tripathi, Ali Fazal as Govind ‘Guddu’ Pandit, Divyenndu as Phoolchand ‘Munna’ Tripathi and Jitendra Kumar as Vinay ‘Bablu’ Pandit, replacing Vikrant Massey’s character portrayal from the series.