Rishabh

**Rishabh Gujral** was one of the main characters of the sixth season of Naagin where he was the love interest of Pratha and the father of her daughter Prathna. Rishabh Gujral was portrayed by Actor Simba Nagpal.

Rishabh was born as the son of Lalit and Chanda Gujral along with his twin brother Shakti but since Chanda was prisoned , Rishabh and Shakti were raised by their stepmother Seema Gujral who was the one that had captured Chanda. Since his childhood, Rishabh was inspired a lot by his grandfather who was in military and from the early days Rishabh developed the sense of patriotism towards his nation. Rishabh heard the news of Shakti's death during his youth and soon later joined army. Rishabh then served the Indian military for a while and he became Captain Rishabh Gujral soon afterwards.

After few years, Lalit and Seema arranged the marriage of Rishabh and his younger half-brother, Ritesh Gujral with Seema's close friend Urvashi's daughters but Rishabh later married a housekeeping girl named Pratha since he suspected her to be involved in the conspiracy against India but soon after married he learnt that Pratha was not involved in any kind of conspiracy and realized that he had started falling for her.

Rishabh was happy with Pratha but soon learnt the truth of his real mother Chanda and her step-mother Seema who tried to attack Pratha but fell from roof after which Seema went to coma. Rishabh was ready to start his new life with Pratha but he was convinced by his security in-charge Hina Khanna and Urvashi that Pratha had killed Samayra(Rishabh's cousin Rehan's wife). Rishabh believed them and Pratha got arrested. Rishabh was forced to marry Hina after the marriage, Rishabh became a businessman. Soon a year passed, Rishabh met his new business associate Rajesh Pratap Singh but got shocked when he saw Rajesh's fiancée Kiara Sharma was a look-alike of Pratha. Rishabh then started to keep an eye on Kiara and soon found out that Pratha was wrongly accused of the murder by Hina, Urvashi ,Rehan and Ritesh. Rishabh felt guilty and thought that he had lose his love Pratha when he got in a fire where he survived but everyone else thought him to be dead. Rishabh then went to Kedarnath as an army officer since the army found out that Kedarnath was about to get attacked. Rishabh learnt that Hina was the associate of the conspiractors against India where he tried to shppt her but Hina revealed him that Pratha was Kiara and that she had his daughter captured which was born when Pratha was in the prison. Rishabh then fought against the conspiractors in Kedarnath where he got united with his love Kiara/Pratha. Rishabh learnt about Hina's death from Pratha who returned back home intending to search for their daughter. Rishabh and Pratha found Anmol who was told to be their daughter.

Rishabh soon got captured by his twin brother Shakti who was revealed to be alive and found that Shakti wanted to marry Pratha but Rishabh stopped him and Shakti died for real. Rishabh then decided to start his new life with Pratha and Anmol.

    After 20 years, Rishabh now lives a happy life with his family where he loves Anmol and Pratha a lot but hates Rudra, Anmol's childhood friend with whom Anmol wants to get married but Rishabh gets furious when Rudra breaks Anmol's heart and refuses to marry her. Rishabh then soon finds out a girl named Prathna who is a look-alike of Pratha and welcomes Prathna in Gujral house after her father died and her marriage gets called off. Rishabh then starts to get attacked by serpent and on further researching he learns about the existence of Ichchadari Naag-Naagin and informs it to his wife, Pratha. Rishabh with the help of Rudra even researched about the new conspiractors of the nation. Rishabh soon learns that Prathna being his biological daughter who happens to be an Ichchadari Naagin and then Pratha confesses to Rishabh that even she is an Ichchadari Naagin who was initially Sarvashresth Sheshnaagin but now their daughter Prathna has taken over the title of Sarvashresth Sheshnaagin. Rishabh soon gets stabbed by Anmol and goes to coma but when he wakes up he learns that Urvashi, Anmol and Seema who has also wake up from coma are plotting against Pratha and Prathna to gain 9 Naagmani. Rishabh helps Pratha and Prathna where Prathna gains the 9 Naagmani and Anmol dies.

Rishabh and Pratha then decide to get Prathna and Rudra married but Hina aka Mahek(the long dead sister of Pratha who is resurrected by magical powers) appears with Urvashi and Seema to disrupt the wedding and they start to cause chaos where Rudra gets killed and Rishabh get stabbed by Seema. Rishabh also witnesses when Mahek stabs her younger sister Pratha. Rishabh and Pratha then die together from their injuries but before their death they force Prathna to make a vow to protect 9 Naagmani from Mahek.