Having completed a diploma in advertising and public relations, Rajadhyaksha joined the photo services department of the advertising agency
Lintas India Ltd (now Lowe Lintas), eventually he left his advertising job in 1987, and took up
commercial photography full-time, and soon started doing product campaigns, media assignments and fashion portfolios. Apart from doing occasional television talk shows, he edited
Marathi entertainment fortnightly, 'Chanderi' and composed a popular column,
Manas Chitra, in a leading Marathi news daily. His 1997 released
coffee table book, titled
Faces, contained profiles of 45 film personalities beginning with
Durga Khote, one of India's first ladies of the Indian screen and ending with
Aishwarya Rai, the former Miss World and today
Bollywood's leading actress. In 1992, he wrote his first screenplay, for the film, 'Bekhudi', which launched actress
Kajol's career and his second, 'Anjaam' presented,
Madhuri Dixit with a challenging role. In 2000, he held his first ever photo-exhibition in
Pune which showcased, twenty years of his photography work. Exhibitions of Rajadhyaksha's work have been held in
Pune, Goa and
Kolhapur with all attracting large crowds. Further exhibitions of his work in San Francisco, London,
Birmingham and
Dubai, have all been well attended as well. He used to idolise the work of Jitendra Arya and was also influenced by his works published in
Filmfare,
The Illustrated Weekly of India and
The Times of India. ==Death==