Ravi Kishan
Actor and Member of Parliament
Bhojpuri and Hindi film actor turned BJP Member of Parliament who won a 2026 Delhi High Court injunction protecting his personality rights and restraining AI-generated deepfakes that misused his name, face and voice.
In his words
The court found the unauthorized use of his identity prima facie unlawful and likely to cause irreparable harm to his reputation, dignity and privacy.
Biography
Ravi Kishan (Ravindra Shukla, born 1969) is a prolific actor across Bhojpuri and Hindi cinema and a reality-television regular, who entered politics with the BJP and serves as the Member of Parliament for Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
A court order against AI deepfakes
On July 2, 2026, in Ravindra Shukla v. Ashok Kumar, Justice Jyoti Singh of the Delhi High Court granted Ravi Kishan an ex-parte interim injunction protecting his personality rights. The order restrained unknown defendants from the unauthorized use of his name, image, likeness and voice — expressly including AI-generated deepfakes and obscene or defamatory synthetic content — and directed platforms such as Meta, Google and X to take down identified material within 72 hours.
The court recognised that his name, image and voice carry “significant commercial value” deserving legal protection. Kishan’s suit is part of a fast-growing line of Indian celebrity personality-rights cases — following Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan — in which the courts have become the front line against AI misuse of famous likenesses.
Where they stand in the war
Who backs them up
Sources & further reading
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