Former child artiste Ravi Valecha recalls facing abuse in film industry at 8: ‘There was nobody I could talk to’
Actor Ravi Valecha, who became a known face on the big screen as a child artist in the 1970s and 1980s, has opened up about a deeply troubling chapter of his life. Despite achieving a remarkable feat of working in around 300 films across multiple languages, Valecha has revealed that his journey in the film industry was also marked by incidents of sexual exploitation. Ravi Valecha starred in 300 films. Former child artiste recalls facing abuse Valecha often played younger versions of Amitabh Bachchan’s characters in many films and featured in several popular films, including Coolie, Amar Akbar Anthony, Mr Natwarlal, Fakira, Tumhare Bina, Khuddar, Nastik, Parichay, Yaadon Ki Baarat, Karz, Seeta Aur Geeta and Desh Premee, among others. While speaking to The Indian Express, Ravi revealed that he was around eight years old when the abuse began and that he faced such incidents three times. The first incident took place at a dubbing studio, where an older man from the industry asked him to sit on his lap. Ravi also recalled that the most …









