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Biswa Kalyan Rath

Biswa Kalyan Rath

Indian comedian, writer, YouTuber (born 1989)

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

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    ET Bureau (9 May 2014). "Reviewer duo Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath throw a few punches at bad Bollywood movies". The Economic Times. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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    "During my IIT days, I realised I like joking more than engineering: Biswa Kalyan Rath - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
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    Somya Lakhani (9 May 2014). "Boys of Bollywood". The Indian Express. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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    Aanchal Tuli (22 August 2014). "Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath's first live show in Gurgoan". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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    Manali Shah (23 October 2015). "Most serious ever: Biswa on life before Pretentious Movie Reviews". The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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    Hena Mehta (4 October 2015). "Comedians stand up and get counted". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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    "Laakhon Mein Ek Trailer" – via Youtube.
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    "Behind the Journey with Biswa" – via Youtube.
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    Learn Comedy on FrontRow with Biswa, retrieved 15 June 2021
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    "2017: The year India's stand-up comics took a stroll even as they had a chance to run wild". scroll.in.
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    Farzeen, Sana (12 April 2019). "Laakhon Mein Ek Season 2 actor Shweta Tripathi: Biswa Kalyan Rath is quite a serious guy". The Indian Express. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
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    "Biswa Kalyan Rath's Amazon Special Sushi Packs Enough of the Wasabi Punch". Film Companion. 30 October 2019. Archived from the original on 27 October 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
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    "Mood Kharaab review: Biswa Kalyan Rath's best standup special yet". cnbctv18.com. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
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