Biswa Kalyan Rath | |||||||
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Born | [1] | 27 December 1989 ||||||
Alma mater | IIT Kharagpur | ||||||
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Years active | 2014–present | ||||||
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Years active | 2015–present | ||||||
Subscribers | 680 thousand [2] | ||||||
Total views | 45 million [2] | ||||||
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Last updated: 19 July 2023 |
Biswa Kalyan Rath is an Indian stand-up comedian, writer and YouTuber. He came into prominence through the YouTube comedy series, Pretentious Movie Reviews [3] with fellow comedian Kanan Gill. He played a supporting role in the 2016 Netflix sex comedy film Brahman Naman . He created the 2017 Amazon Prime Video's series Laakhon Mein Ek . On 9 December 2020, Rath married actress Sulagna Panigrahi. [4]
After Biswa graduated in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012, [5] [6] [7] he worked at the mobile security startup, BitzerMobile. It was during this time that he met Kanan Gill at an open mic event in Bengaluru in 2013. [8] He quit his job at Oracle in 2014 to become a full-time comedian. [9]
Biswa and Kanan came up with the idea of the Pretentious Movie Reviews, a series of videos which soon went viral on YouTube. In this series, they review critically panned Bollywood films. [10] They chose Bollywood movies because they are so embedded in the Indian pop culture. [11] [12] In 2014, he performed his first live show along with Kanan Gill in Gurgaon. [13]
He started doing stand-up comedy in 2015 and went on his first solo national tour, Biswa In your Face in September 2015, doing shows in Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. [14] In 2015, he hosted the Comedy Hunt along AIB and other comedians and also did a tour named Biswa Mast Aadmi. [15] He has also created a web series called "Laakhon Mein Ek" which released on Amazon Prime Video in October 2017. [16] and appeared on HDFC Life's Behind the Journey video series [17]
In December 2020, Biswa launched an exclusive Masterclass [18] for the aspiring stand up comedians with FrontRow.
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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2016 | Brahman Naman | Ilash | Debut film (Cameo) |
Year | Platform | Name | Notes |
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2014 | YouTube | Pretentious Movie Reviews | Himself |
2017 | Amazon Video | Biswa Mast Aadmi [19] [20] | Stand Up Special |
Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 1 [21] | Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath, Co-written by Vaspar Dandiwala & Karan Agarwal | ||
Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. | Episode #StartUp | ||
Youtube | Son of Abish | S2E8 with Kanan Gill | |
Soundcloud | AIB Video Podcast | With Sumukhi Suresh | |
2018 | Amazon Video | Improv All Stars: Game Night | Himself |
Comicstaan: Season 1 | Judge | ||
2019 | Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 2 [22] | Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath Co-written by Abhishek Sengupta & Hussain Haidry | |
Comicstaan: Season 2 | Judge | ||
Sushi [23] | Stand Up Special | ||
2020 | Afsos | Played a fictionalised version of himself (Guest Role) | |
FrontRow | Learn Comedy on FrontRow with Biswa | Played himself, teaching comedy to aspiring comedians | |
2021 | Netflix | Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream | Himself |
2023 | Amazon Video | Mood Kharaab [24] | Stand Up Special |
2023 | Amazon Mini TV | Hum Do Teen Chaar | Brajesh Gupta |
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