Bikas Mishra

Bikas Mishra Biography

Bikas Mishra is an Indian screenwriter and film director, who received critics’ acclaims and many awards for his works. Many of his independent films and short films have won awards and recognition at different film festivals across the globe. As a film director, his first full-length feature film, "Chauranga" (2016) received numerous accolades including awards at Mumbai Film Festival and Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. His short film "Dance of Ganesha" was premiered at the 16th Busan International Film Festival, and later shown in different film festivals. Pagla Ghoda and Guy in the Sky – both made in 2017 are other works.

His full name is Bikas Ranjan Mishra. Known as an international award winning film maker, some of his major awards are India Gold at Mumbai Film Festival 2014, Grand Jury Prize at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2015 and Best Project at Film Bazaar, Goa 2011. For script development, he won the prestigious Hubert Bals Fund. Pagla Ghoda is his most recent independent film, which is currently running in Hotstar. It’s a screen adaption of a play with the same name.

He holds, a master’s degree in Mass Communication, from Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia, New Delhi. Bikas worked as a special Features show producer for CNBC with Network18, before he joined films. He has served as a member of the selection committees of Mumbai Film Festival and has been invited on the critic’s juries of International Film Festival of Kerala and Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival, New Delhi. He was invited on the Visionary Jury of Critics Week of the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. "Chauranga" is his first Bollywood film as a film director, which opened to critics’ acclaim.

Published: July 28, 2018

Updated: July 28, 2018