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Meet actor who wanted to be cricketer, worked with Salman Khan, Aamir, and emerged as one of the biggest villains of Indian cinema
If someone asks the name of a few of the biggest Indian villains, this actor surely shines out on the list. From wanting to be a cricketer to becoming one of the sought-after, can you guess who is he?
India has seen some of the biggest villains over time and our today’s guess game brings one such dreadful on-screen faces. This actor has worked with some of the biggest faces of Bollywood including Salman Khan and Aamir Khan but many don’t know that acting was not his first priority. Can you guess who’s this actor that scared the hell out of people both onscreen and offscreen?
Today we are talking about Mukesh Rishi, one of the most horrifying villains of Indian cinema’s late 90s and early 20s who is truly a gentleman in real life. The actor has been instrumental in shaping a fresh narrative for negative characters and has been part of some of the most successful movies of all time.
Born on April 17, 1956, in Jammu, Mukesh’s father was a businessman and wanted him also to follow in his footsteps. Rishi, on the other hand, wasn’t really into joining his ancestral business but saw cricket as an interesting field ever since his school days. For the unversed, he was even a captain at Punjab University during his college but his entire family then shifted to Mumbai and went hardcore business.
Rishi’s family also swayed him into business after his studies but after some time he confronted his father about not being passionate about it. Mukesh told his father that he wanted to travel abroad and that’s when his father sent him to Fiji. The 68-year-old worked as a departmental store manager there before trying his hand at modeling. That’s when people suggested he consider showbiz and after his father’s demise, Mukhesh moved to Mumbai.
Sometime later when Rishi’s brother asked him if he could take over the family business, Mukesh confessed that he wanted to try his hand at films, especially in negative roles. Luckily, his brother approved and Mukesh joined an acting school. Six months down, a friend of Rishi linked him to Yash Chopra’s office but the actor received a sad response that the filmmaker doesn’t actually require villains in his movies but makes more of romance and family dramas.
Mukesh kept trying his hands here and there until a year later when he received a call from YRF’s office that he would be required for a role in Yash Chopra’s 1993 film Parampara making Rishi’s entry into showbiz a massive hit. Ever since then there was no looking back for the actor. He went on to star in several films including Sarfarosh, Suryavansham, Loafer, Indian, Gunda, Koi Mil Gaya, and Dam, among others.
Other than Bollywood, Mukesh Rishi also worked across Tamil, Telugu, and Punjabi film industries and now picks very rare films to feature.
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