Piyush Mishra

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Piyush Mishra
Occupation Actor, Screenwriter, Lyricist

Piyush Mishra, is an Indian film actor, lyricist, script and dialogue writer, and a well known theatre director and Hindi playwright. He spent his early life in Gwalior, where he received his education.

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Career

Theater and television

After his graduation from National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi in 1986, Piyush Mishra started his career as a theatre actor and went on to write and directed several plays as a part of Act-1 Group (1990-1995). In 1996 he joined Asmita Theatre Group, and performed his Popular one man shows An Evening with Piyush Mishra. He wrote the lyrics for Asmita's popular plays. Piyush acted as Maniac in operation three star (an adaptation of Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist). Piyush is also known for his performance in Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial as Surat Singh, first with Ranjeet Kapoor (1991) and later under the direction of Arvind Gaur (1996).[1]

Mishra has also acted in a television series, Rajdhani, directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia for Star TV.

Films

Mishra made his film debut with Mani Ratnam's Dil Se in 1998, though he continued to stay in Delhi to pursue theatre. His transition from playwright to screen writer happened when he wrote the dialogues for Rajkumar Santoshi's 2001 film The Legend of Bhagat Singh, which was inspired in part by Mishra's critically acclaimed play on Bhagat Singh - Gagan Damama Bajyo.[2] It won him the Zee Cine Award for Best Dialogue (2003).[3] After that, he moved to Mumbai, where he has gone on to establish a career as a lyricist, writer and actor.

Mishra won accolades for his performance as Kaka in Vishal Bhardwaj's 2003 film Maqbool, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. He wrote his own dialogues for his performance as Hafeez (Huffy) Bhai in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007), and delivered them in poetry style.[4]

Presently he lives in Mumbai with his wife and two sons.

Filmography

Actor

Lyrics

Screenplay and dialogues

References

  1. ^ Shriram Centre, New Delhi
  2. ^ The Hindu. The play which inspired a film
  3. ^ Rediff Movies. Why films happened to me
  4. ^ Piyush Mishra in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

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