Biswa Kalyan Rath
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Biswa Kalyan Rath
(Age 33 Yr. )
Personal Life
Education | Graduation in Biotechnology |
Nationality | India |
Profession | Comedian, Youtuber and Writer |
Place | Odisa,  India |
Physical Appearance
Height | 5 feet 9 inches |
Eye Color | Brown |
Hair Color | Black |
Family
Parents | Father: Jagan Mohan Rath |
Marital Status | Married |
Spouse | Sulagna Panigrahi |
Favourite
Food | Home Cooked |
Index
1. Career |
2. Filmography |
Biswa Kalyan Rath is an Indian stand-up comedian, writer and YouTuber. He came into prominence through the YouTube comedy series, Pretentious Movie Reviews 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.
Career
After graduation in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012, 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. He quit his job at Oracle in 2014 to become a full-time comedian.
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. They chose Bollywood movies because they are so embedded in the Indian pop culture. In 2014, he performed his first live show along with Kanan Gill in Gurgaon.
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. In 2015, he hosted the Comedy Hunt along AIB and other comedians and also did a tour named Biswa Mast Aadmi. He has also created a web series called "Laakhon Mein Ek" which released on Amazon Prime Video in October 2017. and appeared on HDFC Life's Behind the Journey video series
In December 2020, Biswa launched an exclusive Masterclass for the aspiring stand up comedians with FrontRow.
Filmography
Film
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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2016 | Brahman Naman | Ilash | Debut film (Cameo |
Web
Year | Platform | Name | Notes |
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2014 | YouTube | Pretentious Movie Reviews | Himself |
2017 | Amazon Video | Biswa Mast Aadmi | Stand Up Special |
2017 | Amazon Video | Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 1 | Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath, Co-written by Vaspar Dandiwala & Karan Agarwal |
2017 | Amazon Video | Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. | Episode #StartUp |
2017 | Youtube | Son of Abish | S2E8 with Kanan Gill |
2017 | Soundcloud | AIB Video Podcast | With Sumukhi Suresh |
2018 | Amazon Video | Improv All Stars: Game Night | Himself |
2018 | Amazon Video | Comicstaan: Season 1 | Judge |
2019 | Amazon Video | Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 2 | Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath Co-written by Abhishek Sengupta & Hussain Haidry |
2019 | Amazon Video | Comicstaan: Season 2 | Judge |
2019 | Amazon Video | Sushi | Stand Up Special |
2020 | Amazon Video | Afsos | Played a fictionalised version of himself (Guest Role) |
2020 | FrontRow | Learn Comedy on FrontRow with Biswa | Played himself, teaching comedy to aspiring comedians |
2021 | Netflix | Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream | Himself |