
Rakesh Bapat changed his name to Raqesh Vashisht but everything else about him remains unchanged, his dimpled smile, his soft-spoken manner and his charm that has girls swooning over him. His father is a navy captain and his mother is a teacher. It is known that Rakesh changed his surname to Vashisht due to career problem. Raqesh has great interest in painting, horse riding, playing tennis, sculpting, singing, playing the flute and sitar.
Raqesh made his screen debut together with Himanshu Malik in Anubhav Sinha's Tum Bin in 2001. After the success of Tum Bin, Anubhav Sinha again cast him as a solo lead in Kuchh Dil Ne Kaha opposite Raima Sen, which bombed at the box office. After that he starred in a few average films like Dil...