Biswa Kalyan Rath is an Indian stand-up comedian, writer and YouTuber. He came into prominence through the YouTube comedy series, Pretentious Movie Reviews 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.
Career After Biswa graduated in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012, 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. He quit his job at Oracle in 2014 to become a full-time comedian.
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. They stated that they chose Bollywood movies because "they are so embedded in the Indian pop culture". In 2014, he performed his first live show along with Kanan Gill in Gurgaon.
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. In 2015, he hosted the Comedy Hunt along AIB and other comedians and also did a tour named Biswa Mast Aadmi. He has also created a web series called Laakhon Mein Ek which released on Amazon Prime Video in October 2017. and appeared on HDFC Life's Behind the Journey video series
In December 2020, Biswa launched an exclusive Masterclass for the aspiring stand up comedians with FrontRow.
Filmography Film Year Film Role Notes 2016 Brahman Naman Ilash Debut film (Cameo)
Web Year Name Platform Notes 2014-2015 Pretentious Movie Reviews YouTube Himself 2017 Biswa Mast Aadmi Amazon Prime VideoStand-up Special2017-2019 Laakhon Mein Ek Created & Written by Biswa Kalyan Rath,Co-written by Vaspar Dandiwala, Abhishek Sengupta, Hussain Haidry & Karan Agarwal2017Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. Episode #StartUpSon of AbishYouTubeS2E8 with Kanan GillAIB Video PodcastSoundCloudWith Sumukhi Suresh2018Improv All Stars: Game NightAmazon Prime VideoHimself2018-19ComicstaanJudge 2019Sushi Stand Up Special2020AfsosPlayed a fictionalised version of himself (Guest Role)Learn Comedy on FrontRow with BiswaFrontRowPlayed himself, teaching comedy to aspiring comedians 2021 Alma Matters: Inside the IIT Dream Netflix Himself2023Mood KharaabAmazon Prime VideoStand Up Special Hum Do Teen Chaar Amazon Mini TV Brajesh Gupta2026Nation Wants To GuessYouTubeHimself
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