Rasika Joshi was born on September 12, 1972 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Marathi Brahmin family. Rasika began her career with A Marathi play by Lata Narvekar. Her last movie Rasika died from leukemia on July 7, 2011 in a nursing home in Mumbai, aged 39, and was survived by her husband Girish Joshi and family.