Rajneesh Duggal was born on 19 November 1979 in Delhi. He started working as a business executive in Delhi but his career took a different turn when he entered and won the Grasim Mr India contest in 2003 and became runner-up at the Mr International contest that followed. Duggal then appeared in a number of TV commercials for several leading brands. He made his entry into Hindi cinema with Vikram Bhatt's horror thriller 1920 (2008), which was moderately successful. He collaborated with the same team for his next Phhir (2011). In the following years, he starred in more thrillers, including Chandrakant Singh's Be-Careful (2011), Vikram Bhatt's Dangerous Ishhq (2012) opposite Karisma Kapoor, Bobby Khan's Ek Paheli Leela (2015) starring Sunny Leone, Syed Ahmed Afzal's Laal Rang (2016), and more. Besides starring in a couple of music videos, Rajneesh Duggal appeared in Rajiv S Ruia's animated film Main Krishna Hoon (2013) and did Life OK's theatrical show Ramleela Ajay Devgan Ke Saath (2012) as Ram. He won the stunt reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 in 2014.