He stayed away from the limelight for more than five years from 2017 and made a comeback in 2022 with the prime-time SunTV soap opera Iniya, winning awards for it Rishi appeared in a few fiction and non-fiction shows on STAR Vijay before appearing on Sun TV with Endemol's Dealaa No Dealaa (Tamil version of Deal or No Deal).
This was a runaway success with Rishi's anchoring style making him a household name among the Tamil people all over the world, with a special fan following in Malaysia and Canada.
[2] In 2012, Endemol South and Sun TV made Kaiyil Oru Kodi, Are you ready?
[3] In 2009-10 Rishi played the lead in the popular Telugu-language soap opera, Sundarakanda the first Indian TV show to be shot in the USA.
He then went on to do roles in a few films like Mandhira Punnagai, Naan Sigappu Manithan, Yaan and Payanam (Gaganam in Telugu) among others.