Richard Rishi
Biography
Richard Rishi is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Tamil and Telugu films and a few Malayalam and Kannada films.
He is known for Koottu, A Film by Aravind, and his subsequent movies with director Mohan G, namely Draupathi and Rudra Thandavam.
Despite a relatively high-profile launch through Kadhal Virus, Rishi found it difficult to experience further success in the following years.
After that, he acted in the Malayalam film called Koottu released in 2004 which gave him great success and improved his career. Koottu was a great nostalgic film.
Films such as Thiru 420 by director duo Sekar Kumar and Sengattuvan, where he starred opposite former Miss India contestant, Swetha Vijay, were stalled after production began.
Richard studied in Loyola Matriculation. He has two younger sisters, former film actresses Shalini and Shamili. Their father is from Kollam and their mother hails from a Malayali family living in Chennai.
The sole reason behind his father's shift to Madras was to become a singer.
Actor Ajith Kumar is his brother-in-law.
Rishi made his acting debut with Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari which is released in 1990. He was cast as a child artiste in the Tamil film Anjali in the same year 1990.
He first appeared as an adult actor in Kadhal Virus in 2002, playing the lead opposite Sridevi Vijaykumar. The film was released after some delay and fared poorly at the box office.
