Writer & DirectorBikas Ranjan Mishra
CastHuma Qureshi, Chandrachur Singh, Sachin Khedekar, Swati Das, Vibhore Mayank, Sampa Mandal
ProductionPlatoon One Films, Summit Studios, Guidant Films
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Bikas Mishra
Writer & Director
Bikas Mishra's latest feature Bayaan (2025) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had its Asian premiere at Busan. The film is currently in international festival circulation.
His debut feature Chauranga won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and Best Indian Feature at MAMI (2014). His short film Dance of Ganesha screened at Clermont-Ferrand, IFFR, and Busan.
A former film critic, he served on the Visionary Jury of Critics' Week at Cannes in 2012. He has been mentoring screenwriters at the NFDC Screenwriters' Lab since 2018.
Represented by Collective Artists Network.
In The News
Variety India
‘Bayaan’ Director Bikas Ranjan Mishra: ‘Festival Films are Too Independent for the Mainstream System and Too Ambitious for the Ultra-Low-Budget Space’
The filmmaker speaks about the harsh realities of festival films in India ahead of the SXSW London screening of his Huma Qureshi-starrer thriller drama.
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Planet Bollywood
"No film industry can survive on tentpole films alone" - Bayaan director Bikas Ranjan Mishra - Planet Bollywood
Bikas Ranjan Mishra waited nearly a decade to direct his second feature film. After making his debut with ‘Chauranga’ (2016), an acclaimed drama that examined caste violence, Mishra returns with…
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Pancouver
Sundar Prize Film Festival honours Bayaan as Best Feature Film – Narrative Live Action - Pancouver
The Sundar Prize Film Festival aims to raise awareness and inspire action on critical social causes and issues.
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Mumbai Mirror
Bayaan shows courage, redeems Bollywood
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mint
Bayaan: Huma Qureshi’s new movie creates history at TIFF 2025, becomes only Indian film to… | Mint
Huma Qureshi's film Bayaan, a police thriller directed by Bikas Ranjan Mishra, will premiere at TIFF 2025. It features notable actors like Chandrachur Singh and Sachin Khedekar.
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The Hollywood Reporter India
Huma Qureshi's 'Bayaan' To Have World Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2025
The 2025 Toronto International Film Festival will bring Indian cinema to the forefront with the world premiere of Bayaan, a police procedural thriller headlined
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Variety
Huma Qureshi, ‘Bayaan’ Team Reveal Toronto Indian Thriller’s Real-World Inspiration: ‘Trying to Make Sense of the Systemic Patriarchy’
Star Huma Qureshi, director Bikas Ranjan Mishra and producer Shiladitya Bora discuss cult leader inspiration behind Toronto police thriller 'Bayaan.'
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