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Bikas Ranjan Mishra

Bikas Ranjan Mishra

History

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.

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Bikas Ranjan Mishra

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Screenplay

A story of two stand-up comedians, Deep and Zoya, and how they try to navigate their way through their relationship while joking about it on stage!

Story

A story of two stand-up comedians, Deep and Zoya, and how they try to navigate their way through their relationship while joking about it on stage!

Director

Mehak and Raghav are a picture-perfect urban middle-class couple. But the friction in their relationship begins to unfold over a Facebook profile picture. What causes the tiff is the discovery that Raghav secretly admires the popular political leader who Mehak has quit her job to organize a protest march against. A contemporary and humorous take on the current political climate in our country and the significance that social media has assumed in our lives, "Guy in the Sky", is as bizarre and funny as true.

Director

The story of four men gathered to cremate an unknown girl, each with a personal reason in mind. While sharing a round of drinks after the cremation, their curiosity about the girl's origin piques, and the ensuing discussion reveals secrets hidden to the world.

Director

A fourteen year old Dalit (lower caste) boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter.

Dance of Ganesha

Dance of Ganesha

Script

An Indian folk dancer is caught in his daily struggle of survival in an automobile factory. The burden to earn a living for his family and preserve his family tradition of ritual Ganesha dancing is humongous. His two roles - the sole bread winner of the family and the magnificent elephant god Ganesha, are so diverse that his journey from factory to village looks like time travel and his existence schizophrenic! Ganesha, the dancer lives in the fear of the day when he will have to choose between livelihood and art/tradition.

Dance of Ganesha

Dance of Ganesha

Director

An Indian folk dancer is caught in his daily struggle of survival in an automobile factory. The burden to earn a living for his family and preserve his family tradition of ritual Ganesha dancing is humongous. His two roles - the sole bread winner of the family and the magnificent elephant god Ganesha, are so diverse that his journey from factory to village looks like time travel and his existence schizophrenic! Ganesha, the dancer lives in the fear of the day when he will have to choose between livelihood and art/tradition.