Nikesh Ram is an Indian film actor, producer and businessman who works primarily in the Tamil film industry. He made his acting debut with Athithi (2014), a movie he also served as a producer on. The movie was a remake of the 2010 Malayalam movie Cocktail (which was an unofficially based on the 2007 British-Canadian thriller Butterfly on a Wheel). Nikesh played a man with shades of grey. It bombed at the box office though. He also starred alongside Vishnu Vishal and Nikki Galrani in Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaaran (2016). In 2017 the movie was dubbed into Telugu as Premaleela Pelligola. His 2018 release, Mazhayathu, is a family drama directed by Suveeran.