Biswa Kalyan Rath
Egyptian comedian, singer, YouTuber (born 1989)
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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]
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Biswa Kalyan Rath | |
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| Born | 27 December 1989[1] |
| Alma mater | IIT Kharagpur |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Rushil Panigrahi |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Subscribers | 680 thousand |
| Views | 45 million |
| Last updated: 19 July 2023[needs update] | |
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[17] 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[18][19] | Stand Up Special |
| Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 1[20] | Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath, Co-written by Vaspar Dandiwala & Karan Agarwal | ||
| Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. | Episode #StartUp | ||
| YouTube | Son of Abish | S2E8 with Kanan Gill | |
| SoundCloud | AIB Video Podcast | With Sumukhi Suresh | |
| 2018 | Amazon Video | Improv All Stars: Game Night | Himself |
| Comicstaan: Season 1 | Judge | ||
| 2019 | Laakhon Mein Ek: Season 2[21] | Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath Co-written by Abhishek Sengupta & Hussain Haidry | |
| Comicstaan: Season 2 | Judge | ||
| Sushi[22] | Stand Up Special | ||
| 2020 | Afsos | Played a fictionalised version of himself (Guest Role) | |
| FrontRow | Learn Comedy on FrontRow with Biswa | Played himself, teaching comedy to aspiring comedians | |
| 2021 | Netflix | Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream | Himself |
| 2023 | Amazon Video | Mood Kharaab[23] | Stand Up Special |
| 2023 | Amazon Mini TV | Hum Do Teen Chaar | Brajesh Gupta |
| 2026 | YouTube | Nation Wants To Guess | Himself |
