Rishabh Sawhney

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rishabh Sawhney

• Rishabh Sawhney is an Indian actor who gained popularity with the 2024 Bollywood aerial action film Fighter in which he played the role of a terrorist.

• He grew up in New Delhi.

  

• Since 2016, he has been a partner at Shrishti International, Gurgaon. The company manufactures and exports High Fashion Sequins garments for women.

• Rishabh Sawhney began his career in the entertainment industry as a model, competing in a men’s physique competition.

  

• As a model, he has walked the ramp for various fashion designers like Shantanu and Nikhil. His modelling career includes appearances in video commercials for brands such as Script – A Godrej Venture and Vivo S1 Pro. He has also showcased his modelling skills in print ads for various brands like American Express, SKINN By Titan, and Tata Cliq Luxury’s Indiluxe.

  

• He was featured as a model in the music video of the Hindi song Baat Kar-Faridkot (2022).
  

• After pursuing modelling and theatre, Rishabh Sawhney started his journey as an actor with his role in the historical web series The Empire (2021), playing Mehmood, Babur’s brother. He starred alongside Dino Morea, Kunal Kapoor, and Drashti Dhami in this series, which was available for streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.

  

• Sawhney’s shots in his debut film Fighter (2024) handling a machine gun and doing a fistfight with Hrithik Roshan gained immense recognition.

  

• During his teenage years, Rishabh Sawhney was overweight. He began exercising towards the end of his college years. By the end of his schooling, he weighed 120kgs. Driven by determination, he reduced his weight to 58kgs by his college graduation. While attending school in New Delhi, he frequently consumed junk food. His food habits underwent a change when he moved from New Delhi to Vellore, a smaller city in Tamil Nadu, which lacked major food chains at that time. In an Instagram post, he explained how he lost weight, he said,
  

  Vellore is village and back then there were no known food chains in vellore and i didnt take well to the mess food. Plus getting good food from the restaurant was tedious as it was too far away and walking was mostly the only way to get food and i was lazy so i stopped eating properly and started loosing weight. Since i saw myself loosing weight i took saw a hack to loose weight so i started having only dinner for about 6 months ,no breakfast no lunch and everytime i was hungry i used to have a full bottle of water to fill up lol. I was walking everywhere and using the stairs instead of the lift.”

• In his first semester, he shed 30 kgs and, noticing his slimming down, he decided not to stop his efforts. Continuing this pattern for another six months, he had lost approximately 60 kg by the end of his first year. Thereafter, he participated in two men’s physique competitions before sustaining a shoulder injury. This led to a break of about 4-5 months. Once recovered, he resumed his bodybuilding and fitness pursuits.

  

• He occasionally smokes cigars.

  

• He enjoys watching films and web series in his leisure time, particularly Greek mythological shows. Game of Thrones is his favourite web series. For his role in the historical web series “The Empire” (2021), he prepared by watching the Turkish historical drama “Diriliş: Ertuğrul” and movies like “Jodha Akbar” (2013), “Bajirao Mastani” (2015), and “Padmaavat” (2018).