Piyush Mishra

Piyush Mishra

Birth : 1963-01-13,

History

Piyush Mishra is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer, and scriptwriter. Mishra grew up in Gwalior and graduated from the National School of Drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter, he started his career in Hindi theatre in Delhi. Over the next decade, he established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist, and singer. He moved to Mumbai in 2002, receiving acclaim for his acting in Maqbool (2003) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012).

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Piyush Mishra

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Yugantar
Aazim baba
These movies are based on the research of changes in humans due to Vedic changes born in humans over time.
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
The Astrologer (voice)
In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical land without the bags start to float and a fresh council member sparks an accidental revolution.
Chakki
Playback Singer
An extremely inflated electricity bill leads a small town flour mill owner to the darkest corners of the government office infested with corruption, inefficient officials and apathy of the worst kind.
Chakki
Lyricist
An extremely inflated electricity bill leads a small town flour mill owner to the darkest corners of the government office infested with corruption, inefficient officials and apathy of the worst kind.
PM In Hyderabad
Himself
A BTS documentary set in the August of 2015 when Piyush Mishra flew down to Hyderabad to lend his vocals to an independent film called SHEESH MAHAL. Piyush penned lyrics for two songs composed by Vivek Sagar. Sheeshmahal marks the first collaboration of Camp Sasi with Rohit Penumatsa.
Shamshera
Dialogue
Set in the 1800s, the film is about a "dacoit" tribe who take charge in fight for their rights and independence against the British.
Shamshera
Lyricist
Set in the 1800s, the film is about a "dacoit" tribe who take charge in fight for their rights and independence against the British.
Mere Desh Ki Dharti
Dialogue
Encompasses the journey of two engineering friends who go on a new adventure in the farming industry.
Gulabo Sitabo
Playback Singer
Set in present-day Lucknow, Gulabo Sitabo is a social satire about two impossibly peculiar human beings, Mirza Chunnan Nawab, who stays in a dilapidated mansion and one of the tenants, Bankey Rastogi.
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
Usman Afridi
Horticulture professor Happy arrives in Shanghai and the other Happy along with husband Guddu also lands up in the Chinese city at the same time. Gangsters who’ve come to kidnap Happy and her husband, pick up the wrong Happy, while Guddu and his wife Happy are escorted to a university to deliver a lecture.
7 Din Mohabbat In
Lyricist
The story follows a young man on a quest to find his true love in a crowded Karachi neighbourhood. He must overcome the obstacles, both spiritual and physical, to achieve his goals.
Pink
Prashant Mehra
A sexual assault victim, unjustly tried for the attempted murder of her attacker, is defended by a retired lawyer who challenges India's rape culture.
Happy Bhag Jayegi
Usman Afridi
After fleeing an arranged marriage, a feisty Indian woman finds herself stranded in Pakistan where the ex-governor's son helps reunite her with her boyfriend.
Traffic
Dialogue
An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Mumbai to Pune. Inspired from the real events that happened in Chennai.
Tere Bin Laden Dead or Alive
Khaleeli
A Bollywood director's plan to use an Osama Bin Laden look-alike in an upcoming film runs afoul of a Taliban arms dealer's desire to show that the terrorist is still alive.
Tamasha
Storyteller
Ved and Tara meet accidentally meet in Corsica, France and decide to spend the next 7 days together with secretly revealing their true identity or without any promise to meet later, ever. Tara eventually falls in love with Ved and goes to find Ved after 4 years, and helps him to find his true story where he belongs.
The Shaukeens
Three friends in their 60s try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives.
Revolver Rani
Playback Singer
Alka Singh, the leader of a political party, and her obsessive love for Rohan Mehra, a rising star of Bollywood.
Revolver Rani
Balli
Alka Singh, the leader of a political party, and her obsessive love for Rohan Mehra, a rising star of Bollywood.
Meridian Lines
A poor road worker sets off a chain of events that bring karmic balance to seven very troubled strangers.
The Playback Singer
Ashok Rao
The story of an aimless, would-be, jungle-gym architect who finds his existence disrupted - and his marriage upended - when his prickly, Indian, B-movie playback singer father-in-law comes to visit and overstays his welcome
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2
Nasir
It’s the sequel and the final chapter in the bloody lives of the avenging ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. Sardar Khan’s sons are at war with Ramadhir Singh’s men; and the knives clash and the bullets flash; till either drops dead.
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Playback Singer
Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Nasir
Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
Agneepath
Dialogue
A young boy's father gets killed unexpectedly by a fierce crowd. After fifteen years, the boy comes back to seek his vengeance.
Rockstar
Dhingra
An uninhibited youth woos the hottest about-to-be-married college girl. He rises to become a rock-star - then self-destructs.
Bhindi Baazaar Inc
Shankar Pandey
Power struggles ensue in a gang after the sudden death of their leader.
Lafangey Parindey
Usmaan Bhai
The path of a street fighter and a dancer on skates, who are in love, is paved by friendship, grit and hope.
Tere Bin Laden
Majeed
Ali Hassan (Ali Zafar), a reporter with a downmarket TV channel in Karachi, is keen to go to USA for a better life, but his visa has been refused six times in seven years. In desperation, he gets hold of an Osama Bin Laden look alike and makes a fake Osama tape which he sells to the owner of his channel to raise money for a false identity, a new passport and better luck with US visa. As one can expect, it is far from smooth sailing for him and his friends, as they get into a series of comic situations.
Gulaal
Original Music Composer
A law student witnesses the struggles of the Rajputs, deception, homicide and crime after being elected as General Secretary of his college.
Gulaal
Prithvi Bana
A law student witnesses the struggles of the Rajputs, deception, homicide and crime after being elected as General Secretary of his college.
Ghajini
Dialogue
A man suffering from anterograde amnesia as a result of a violent attack in the past sets out to avenge his girlfriend's death with the aid of photographs, notes and tattoos all over his body.
Rahim Murge Pe Mat Ro
Rahim Murga
An autobiography of a rooster and his death by halal, recounted by him, from beyond the grave.
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Huffy Bhai
London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki met his fiance Anaida at the Ritz in Paris and Alvira met her prince charming Steve at Madame Tussauds
1971
Based on true facts, the film revolves around 6 brave soldiers who escape from the clutches of the Pakistan Army and risk death with honour and courage with sacrifice towards their journey home.
Super
Sonu, his sister, Sasha, and their friend, Akhil, live a poor lifestyle in India. While Sasha has given her heart to Akhil, he treats her as a close friend and confidant. Times get so tough, that the trio conspire to carry out robberies, and end up doing so - quite successfully, eluding the authorities. When Sashs finds out that Akhil does not love her, she threatens to kill herself and misunderstandings break out between the three. Subsequently, they part ways, and a short time later Sonu is informed that Sasha is dead. Years later, a young woman, Dr. Sri Vidya, enters Sonu's life and he befriends her and her dad, so much so that he even aids them financially.
Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home
Qureshi
Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a POW who was captured along with over 50 soldiers by Pakistani soldiers in 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan. 33 years later Ranvir's son Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna) decides to go on a rescue mission to Pakistan and bring back his father who he has not seen since he was a child. Helping him on his mission is Khan (Sanjay Dutt) who had successfully escaped from the same prison. They steal, kill, and plan to get the prisoners out. This movie is inspired by the film The Great Escape.
साला बंदर
A darkly ironic melodrama of star-crossed lovers Gulshan and Manisha, whose forbidden love yearns to be free from Nana – Manisha’s overbearing lecherous drunk of a husband
Maqbool
Kaka
The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women
Jagannath
A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to attract the attention of all the villagers, ...
Samurai
Samurai is directed by then debutante, Balaji Sakthivel and produced by S Dhanu under the Alayam Banner. The film starred Vikram, Anita, Jayaseel and Sriya Reddy in the lead roles.Vikram, a medico, leads a gang of four to abduct corrupt politicians and bureaucrats who use the loophole in law to enjoy their prison term in hospitals or guest houses.Anitha, a school girl and daughter of Nassar, a police officer on the trail of the mysterious gang, has a crush on Vikram. She is not aware of his real identity.
Dil Se..
CBI Investigation Officer
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
Katran
A story of an aged couple who even after spending years of togetherness is staring into an uncertain future. Watch this powerful short now to find out whether they sail through this storm or give up on each other.