Bikas Ranjan Mishra

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Known For Director

Gender Male

Also Known As Bikas Mishra

Bikas Ranjan Mishra

Biography

Award winning writer-director Bikas Mishra's debut feature "Chauranga" (released on January 8, 2016) won Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and was declared Best Indian Feature at Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI). The screenplay of the film was developed at NFDC Screenwriters' Lab in collaboration with Locarno Film Festival and ScriptStation of Berlin Talents. It received a development grant from the Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden. Bikas, a fellow of Binger FilmLab, Amsterdam, has also received prestigious Hubert Bals Fund for script development from the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His short film "Naach Ganesh" (Dance of Ganesha) widely travelled to prestigious festivals including Clermont Ferrand (France), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Busan (South Korea) and IFFLA (Los Angeles). He holds, a masters degree in Mass Communication, from Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia, New Delhi. Prior to his filmmaking career, Bikas worked as a special Features show producer for CNBC with Network18. Bikas has served on 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. In 2012, he was invited on the Visionary Jury of Critics Week of the Cannes Film Festival.

Known For

Director

Bayaan

as Director

2017
Guy in the Sky

as Director

2017
Pagla Ghoda

as Director

2016
Chauranga

as Director

2011
Dance of Ganesha

as Director

Writer

Bayaan

as Writer

2023
2020
Comedy Couple

as Screenplay

2020
Comedy Couple

as Story

Crew

2011