[5] He did his Bachelors in English Literature from Hindu College (1993-1996) and has done his Masters in Mass Communications from MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia.

His television writing credits include Josh, Kashmeer, Krishna Arjun and the award-winning series Kagaar.

He adopted Sławomir Mrożek's political black comedy which pulled the attention of the Indian film industry.

One of the actors in the play suggested him to shift the base to Mumbai where Ritesh started writing from the TV serial Kagaar.

Then he wrote a screenplay of 45 pages based on "The Railway Aunty" and presented it to the director Ajay Bahl who liked the script and went ahead making it a film.