Rishi was born in
Jammu. After his graduation from
Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh, and working for two years in Mumbai, Rishi moved to Fiji for work, where he met his future wife, who is of Indo-Fijian ancestry. Her family ran a traditional departmental store. He has a lucrative investment portfolio including warehouse investments. After marriage, they went to
New Zealand, where Mukesh started his career as a
model. However, he could hardly find time for modelling due to a busy work schedule and was dissatisfied with his modelling assignments. After seven years, he returned to
Mumbai, India and enrolled in
Roshan Taneja's acting school, and later got his break with
Sanjay Khan's serial
The Sword of Tipu Sultan (1990)
, where he played the villain,
Mir Sadiq. ==Filmography==