Biswa Kalyan Rath Explained

Biswa Kalyan Rath
Birth Date:1989 12, df=yes[1]
Birth Place:Rourkela, Odisha, India
Alma Mater:IIT Kharagpur
Years Active:2014–present
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Years Active:2015–present
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Stats Update: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[2] 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.[3]

Career

After Biswa graduated in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012,[4] [5] [6] 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.[7] He quit his job at Oracle in 2014 to become a full-time comedian.[8]

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.[9] They chose Bollywood movies because they are so embedded in the Indian pop culture.[10] [11] In 2014, he performed his first live show along with Kanan Gill in Gurgaon.[12]

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.[13] In 2015, he hosted the Comedy Hunt along AIB and other comedians and also did a tour named Biswa Mast Aadmi.[14] He has also created a web series called "Laakhon Mein Ek" which released on Amazon Prime Video in October 2017.[15] and appeared on HDFC Life's Behind the Journey video series[16]

In December 2020, Biswa launched an exclusive Masterclass for the aspiring stand up comedians with FrontRow.

Filmography

Web

Year Platform Name Notes
2014 YouTubePretentious Movie Reviews Himself
2017 Amazon VideoBiswa Mast Aadmi[17] [18] Stand Up Special
Laakhon Mein Ek

Season 1[19]

Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath,
Co-written by Vaspar Dandiwala & Karan Agarwal
Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. Episode #StartUp
YoutubeSon of AbishS2E8 with Kanan Gill
SoundcloudAIB Video PodcastWith Sumukhi Suresh
2018Amazon VideoImprov All Stars: Game NightHimself
Comicstaan

Season 1

Judge
2019 Laakhon Mein Ek

Season 2[20]

Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath
Co-written by Abhishek Sengupta & Hussain Haidry
Comicstaan

Season 2

Judge
Sushi[21] Stand Up Special
2020AfsosPlayed a fictionalised version of himself (Guest Role)
FrontRowLearn Comedy on FrontRow with BiswaPlayed himself, teaching comedy to aspiring comedians
2021NetflixHimself
2023Amazon VideoMood Kharaab[22] Stand Up Special
2023Amazon Mini TVHum Do Teen ChaarBrajesh Gupta

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kanan and Biswa: Most Random Ever. 16 November 2015.
  2. Web site: Pretentious Movie Reviews . YouTube. 5 August 2017.
  3. Web site: Biswa Kalyan Rath gets married to Sulagna Panigrahi. 19 December 2020.
  4. News: 2017-03-27 . During my IIT days, I realised I like joking more than engineering: Biswa Kalyan Rath . The Times of India . 2023-05-10 . 0971-8257.
  5. Web site: India . IIT KGP Alumni Foundation . Unique Talents of KGP'ians: Biswa Kalyan Rath, from KGP to TV - Newsroom . 2023-05-10 . IIT KGP Alumni Foundation India . en.
  6. Web site: Biswa Kalyan Rath • EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) . 2023-05-10 . earthackney.co.uk . en-US.
  7. News: Reels of fun. The Hindu. 9 March 2015. 29 January 2016. Apoorva Sripathi.
  8. Web site: In Conversation With Biswa Kalyan Rath: Of Pretentiousness and Gamechanging. University Express. 5 September 2014. 29 January 2016. Rhea Yadav. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203170041/http://www.universityexpress.co.in/delhiuniversity/2014/09/conversation-biswa-kalyan-rath-pretentiousness-gamechanging/. 3 February 2016. dead.
  9. News: Reviewer duo Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath throw a few punches at bad Bollywood movies. The Economic Times. 9 May 2014. 29 January 2016. ET Bureau.
  10. News: During my IIT days, I realised I like joking more than engineering: Biswa Kalyan Rath - Times of India. The Times of India. 2018-11-13.
  11. Web site: Boys of Bollywood. The Indian Express. 9 May 2014. 29 January 2016. Somya Lakhani.
  12. Web site: Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath's first live show in Gurgoan. The Times of India. 22 August 2014. 29 January 2016. Aanchal Tuli.
  13. Web site: Most serious ever: Biswa on life before Pretentious Movie Reviews. The Hindustan Times. 23 October 2015. 29 January 2016. Manali Shah.
  14. News: Comedians stand up and get counted. The Hindu. 4 October 2015. 29 January 2016. Hena Mehta.
  15. Web site: Laakhon Mein Ek Trailer. Youtube.
  16. Web site: Behind the Journey with Biswa. Youtube.
  17. News: 2017: The year India's stand-up comics took a stroll even as they had a chance to run wild. scroll.in.
  18. News: Biswa Kalyan Rath on his new show Laakhon Mein Ek, and moving on from Pretentious Movie Reviews. firstpost.com.
  19. News: Laakhon Mein Ek: Comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath's Amazon Prime series asks some tough questions. India Today.
  20. News: Laakhon Mein Ek Season 2 actor Shweta Tripathi: Biswa Kalyan Rath is quite a serious guy. 12 April 2019. The Indian Express. Sana. Farzeen. 3 May 2019.
  21. Web site: Biswa Kalyan Rath’s Amazon Special Sushi Packs Enough of the Wasabi Punch. https://web.archive.org/web/20191027152234/https://www.filmcompanion.in/biswa-kalyan-rath-amazon-prime-special-sushi-review-stand-up-comedy-india. dead. 27 October 2019. 2019-10-30. Film Companion. en-US. 2020-03-17.
  22. Web site: 2023-05-05 . Mood Kharaab review: Biswa Kalyan Rath’s best standup special yet . 2023-05-10 . cnbctv18.com . en.