Richard Sharaf Babu, better known by his screen name Richard Rishi, is an Indian film actor, who works in the Tamil and Telugu film industry. He made his debut as a child artist in the movie Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (1990). Years later, all grown up, he appeared in the feature film Kadhal Virus (2002). The movie was a box office hit. Richard went on to star in movies like A Film by Aravind (2005), Three (2008), Endukante...Premanta! (2012), Netru Indru (2014), Rendavathu Padam (2015) and Kallattam (2016). In Sekhar Suri's 2017 movie, Dr. Chakravarthy and Evadra Hero.