Manu Rishi Chadha (born 3 January, 1971) is an Indian actor, lyricist, script and dialogue writer who works in Hindi films.

[1] Rishi is trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur for six years.

[4] Manu Rishi Chadha started his acting career in Delhi with the Asmita theatre group.

[5] His major plays are Girish Karnad's Rakt Kalyan, Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions, Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug, Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.

[7] His first film in Bollywood as an actor was Saathiya[8] in which he played the role of a doctor.