Biswa Kalyan Rath

Biswa Kalyan Rath
Born (1989-12-27) 27 December 1989[1]
Rourkela, Odisha, India
EducationIIT Kharagpur
Occupations
Years active2014–present
Spouse
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(m. 2020)​
ChildrenRushil Panigrahi
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2015–present
Subscribers829 thousand
Views79.7 million
Last updated: 4 August 2026

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]

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 stated that 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

YearFilmRoleNotes
2016Brahman NamanIlashDebut film (Cameo)

Web

YearNamePlatformNotes
2014-2015Pretentious Movie ReviewsYouTubeHimself
2017Biswa Mast Aadmi[18][19]Amazon Prime VideoStand-up Special
2017-2019 Laakhon Mein Ek[20][21]Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath,
Co-written by Vaspar Dandiwala, Abhishek Sengupta, Hussain Haidry & Karan Agarwal
2017 Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. Episode #StartUp
Son of Abish YouTube S2E8 with Kanan Gill
AIB Video Podcast SoundCloud With Sumukhi Suresh
2018 Improv All Stars: Game Night Amazon Prime Video Himself
2018-19 Comicstaan Judge
2019 Sushi[22] Stand Up Special
2020 Afsos Played a fictionalised version of himself (Guest Role)
Learn Comedy on FrontRow with Biswa FrontRow Played himself, teaching comedy to aspiring comedians
2021 Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream Netflix Himself
2023 Mood Kharaab[23] Amazon Prime Video Stand Up Special
Hum Do Teen Chaar Amazon Mini TV Brajesh Gupta
2026 Nation Wants To Guess YouTube Himself

References

  1. ↑ "Kanan and Biswa: Most Random Ever". 16 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Pretentious Movie Reviews". Retrieved 5 August 2017 – via YouTube.
  3. ↑ "Biswa Kalyan Rath gets married to Sulagna Panigrahi". 19 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "During my IIT days, I realised I like joking more than engineering: Biswa Kalyan Rath". The Times of India. 27 March 2017. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  5. ↑ India, IIT KGP Alumni Foundation. "Unique Talents of KGP'ians: Biswa Kalyan Rath, from KGP to TV - Newsroom". IIT KGP Alumni Foundation India. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  6. ↑ "Biswa Kalyan Rath • EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney)". earthackney.co.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  7. ↑ Apoorva Sripathi (9 March 2015). "Reels of fun". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  8. ↑ Rhea Yadav (5 September 2014). "In Conversation With Biswa Kalyan Rath: Of Pretentiousness and Gamechanging". University Express. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ Somya Lakhani (9 May 2014). "Boys of Bollywood". The Indian Express. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Manali Shah (23 October 2015). "Most serious ever: Biswa on life before Pretentious Movie Reviews". The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  14. ↑ Hena Mehta (4 October 2015). "Comedians stand up and get counted". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  15. ↑ "Laakhon Mein Ek Trailer" – via Youtube.
  16. ↑ "Behind the Journey with Biswa" – via Youtube.
  17. ↑ Learn Comedy on FrontRow with Biswa, retrieved 15 June 2021
  18. ↑ "2017: The year India's stand-up comics took a stroll even as they had a chance to run wild". scroll.in.
  19. ↑ "Biswa Kalyan Rath on his new show Laakhon Mein Ek, and moving on from Pretentious Movie Reviews". firstpost.com.
  20. ↑ "Laakhon Mein Ek: Comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath's Amazon Prime series asks some tough questions". India Today.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ "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.
  23. ↑ "Mood Kharaab review: Biswa Kalyan Rath's best standup special yet". cnbctv18.com. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
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