Mukesh Rishi is an actor who worked and lived in Fiji and New Zealand, before moving to India. He has since worked in Hindi, Malyalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. Some of his films include Gupt (1997), Sooryavansham (1999), Suryam (2004), Okkade (2005), Bhoopathy (2006), Lahore (2010), Singam 2 (2013), Pandavulu Pandavulu Tummeda (2014) and Basthi (2015). Last seen in films like Loafer (2015), Sher (2015), Krishnashtami (2016), Darling (2016), Dulhan Chahi Pakistan Se (2016), Mahayoddha Rama (2016), Winner (2017), Mard Ki Zabaan 2 (2017), and Raktdhar (2017). In 2018, he appeared alongside Makarand Deshpande and Kranti Redkar in Pramod Pawar`s Marathi drama Truckbhar Swapna. His 2019 releases include Vinaya Vidheya Rama and Syeraa Narasimha Reddy.