Ritvik began his career as an athlete and competed professionally between 2001 and 2007, before moving on to work as a computer software engineer.
He was later offered the lead acting role in Rathan Linga's directorial debut Attu (2017), where he portrayed a Chennai-based gangster.
To prepare for the role, Rishi lost weight and interacted with real-life gangsters from the region.
[1][2] As a result, a further film planned with Rathan Linga, Ugramm co-starring R. K. Suresh, and Sillaakki Dumma by Maran Kandhaswamy.
[5][6][7] He co-starred Vikram Prabhu in Raid (2023), a remake of the Kannada film Tagaru in which he reprised Dhananjaya's role as Daali.