
Bikas Ranjan Mishra
Directing
Biography
Bikas Mishra's latest feature, Bayaan (2025), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had its Asian premiere at the Busan International Film Festival. The film is currently travelling to festivals around the world. Based in Mumbai, Bikas made his debut with Chauranga, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and was awarded Best Indian Feature at the Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI) in 2014. His short film Naach Ganesh (Dance of Ganesha) screened at leading international festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, IFFR, and Busan. A former film critic, he served on the Visionary Jury of the Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Bikas has been mentoring screenwriters at the NFDC Screenwriters' Lab since 2018.
Known For

When IC 814 gets hijacked on its way to Delhi, hundreds of lives are at stake as the country faces its longest and most alarming aviation crisis.
IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack

When Neelesh, an idealistic law student from a marginalised section of society, steps into a prestigious institution, he is thrust into a world that doesn't reflect his own. His friendship with Vidhi offers hope-until a wave of tragedy exposes the deep-rooted hierarchies he tried to outrun. He must confront the invisible forces that shape who we are allowed to become and who we are allowed to love.
Dhadak 2

Follows four Desis as they meet in an unplanned dinner. Rohit tells his guests upon arriving that there is a corpse in the trunk. The not-so-innocent joke will change their lives that very night.
Lord Curzon Ki Haveli

When a letter accuses a revered cult leader of abuse, rookie detective Roohi Kartar is sent to a small Indian town to investigate. Confronted by a wall of silence and blind devotion, she must uncover the truth before it's too late.
Bayaan

A fourteen year old boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter.
Chauranga

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!
Comedy Couple

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.
Guy in the Sky

The story of India's first practicing lady doctor, social rebel and medical pioneer who paved the way for a fight against gender discrimination.
Doctor Rakhmabai

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.
Pagla Ghoda

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.