Bigyna Dahal (Bigyna Bhushan Dahal) is a sound designer and location sound recordist from Sikkim, India who has worked on several Indian films. His films have been screened and won awards at several international film festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Pingyao International Film Festival in China,MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He has also won best sound design awards at many festivals including Filmfare Award for Best Sound – Marathi and Filmfare OTT Awards. and Best Sound Design (Series) for Khauf at the Filmfare OTT Awards 2025.
Education and work He is a graduate of FTII, Pune where he specialised in Sound Recording and Sound Design and three of his student films were awarded the National Award in the best short Film category. After finishing studies he moved to Mumbai and has been working on various feature films and documentaries.Busan International Film Festival He is associated with films like Ralang Road, Shahid, Mantra, Peddlers and Asha Jawar Majhe (LABOUR of LOVE) which won the National Award for Best Sound Design in 2015. Bigyna also holds a degree in Physics with Photography from Fergusson college,
Filmography
+YearLanguageTitleFilm Festivals2025HindiKhaufSound DesignWinner Best Sound Design Filmfare OTT Awards 2025 (Best Sound Design (Series))2024HindiJal Tu Jalaal Tu | Sound Design and MixPrateek VatsMAMI Select: Filmed on iPhone2023Toras HusbandSound DesignerBushan International Film FestivalLast Days of SummerSound DesignerIFFRWhich ColourSound DesignerIFFR2022NazarbandSound DesignerPune International Film Festival2020HindiGreen BlackberriesSound DesignerPeoples Film CollectiveEeb Allay OooSound DesignerPingyao International Film Festival, China in 2019
Berlin International Film Festival, 2020
Mumbai Film Festival, 2020 (Golden Gateway Award)
We Are One: A Global Film Festival2019HindiGumnaam Din (Missing Days)Sound DesignerEkta Mittal Public Service Broadcasting TrustBerlin International Film Festival 2020Jaadui MachchhiSound DesignerMira Nair
Ektara Collective 7th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2014 BYOFF (Bring Your Own Film Festival), Puri 18th International Children’s Film Festival, Hyderabad, 2014 10th IAWRT Asian Women’s Festival, 2014 IFFON (International Film Festival of Nepal), Kathmandu, 2017Life AfterThat Cloud Never Left2019Agar Wo Desh Banati/ If She Built A CountrySound Designer, MixerMaheen Mirza
PSBTInternational Documentary and Short-film Festival of KeralaAise Hee Anandi GopalPune International FIlm FestivalAt home, walkingYamagath Documentary Festival2018Sona Dhwandi Bhed Te Suchha Pahad (The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain)Ridham Janve Dharamshala International Film Festival, 2018 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2018 International Film Festival RotterdamMy name is saltVaishnav Jan TohNazarband Mr MukhopadhyayBusan International Film Festival 2018HindiAbsenceEkta Mittal Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2019 Busan International Film Festival 2018 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 20182017NepaliRalang RoadKarma Takapa Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2017 Jio Mami Film Festival, 2017 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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