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Known for
Actor
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1956-04-19
Location
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Edit pageMukesh Rishi
Biography
Mukesh Rishi (born 19 April 1956) is an Indian actor and film producer who works primarily in Hindi and Telugu films.
He has also appeared in Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Marathi and Tamil films. got his first break in Hindi in 1988 and has since, established himself as a leading character actor.
He started his career in films as a villain. He joins a list of non-Telugu speaking actors, such as Amrish Puri, Puneet Issar, Paresh Rawal, Sharat Saxena, Pradeep Rawat, Narendra Jha, Rahul Dev, Mukul Dev, Sonu Sood, Ashutosh Rana, Sachin Khedekar, Boman Irani, and Sayaji Shinde who have successfully established themselves in Telugu movies.
Rishi was born in Jammu. After his graduation from Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh, and working for two years in Mumbai, Rishi went to work in Fiji where he met his future wife of Fijian-Indian descent.
Her family ran a traditional departmental store. He has a lucrative Investment Portfolio including Warehouse investments.
After marriage, they went to New Zealand, where Mukesh started his career as a model.
However, he could hardly find time for modeling due to a busy work schedule and was dissatisfied with his modeling assignments.
After seven years, he returned to Mumbai, India, and enrolled in Roshan Taneja's acting school.
Known for
Actor
Indian Police Force (Season 1) as Jaideep Bansal
Koi... Mil Gaya as Inspector Khurshid Khan
Jatt James Bond as MLA Rattowal
Khiladi 786 as Ikhattar Singh
Maska as Simhachalam
Okkadu as DCP Vijay Varma
Lal Baadshah as S.P Ajit Singh
Saajan Chale Sasural as Nana