Biswa Kalyan Rath

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Biswa Kalyan Rath
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Born (1989-12-27) 27 December 1989 (age 34) [1]
Rourkela, Odisha, India
Alma mater IIT Kharagpur
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Years active2014–present
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(m. 2020)​
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Years active2015–present
Subscribers680 thousand [2]
Total views45 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]

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Career

After Biswa graduated in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012, [5] [6] [7] he worked in graphic design, advertising, and software. It was during this time that he met Kanan Gill at an open mic event in Bangalore 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 Bangalore, 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.

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes
2016 Brahman Naman IlashDebut film (Cameo)

Web

YearPlatformNameNotes
2014 YouTube Pretentious Movie ReviewsHimself
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 AbishS2E8 with Kanan Gill
Soundcloud AIB Video PodcastWith Sumukhi Suresh
2018 Amazon Video Improv All Stars: Game NightHimself
Comicstaan: Season 1Judge
2019 Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 2 [22] Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath
Co-written by Abhishek Sengupta & Hussain Haidry
Comicstaan: Season 2Judge
Sushi [23] Stand Up Special
2020 Afsos Played a fictionalised version of himself (Guest Role)
FrontRowLearn Comedy on FrontRow with BiswaPlayed 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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