Piyush Mishra

Piyush Mishra
Occupation(s)	Actor, Screenwriter, Lyricist, Singer
Awards	Best Dialogue: The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2003)

Piyush Mishra, is an Indian film actor, music director ,lyricist, singer, 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.

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).

Piyush Mishra directed Comedy of Terror play for Shriram Centre rep.company Mishra has also acted in a television series, Rajdhani, directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia for Star TV.

Films

In a recent interview given to The Indian Express,Piyush Mishra affirmed that he was in contention for the role of Prem, played by Salman Khan,in the Bollywood blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya.
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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. It won him the Zee Cine Award for Best Dialogue (2003). 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.

Mishra again appeared in Anurag Kashyap's 2009 movie Gulaal, a movie based on Indian youth, politics, caste-prejudice, and other such social topics. He played Prithvi, the poet brother of Dukey Bana (played by Kay Kay Menon), in the movie. He was also wrote the lyrics for the songs in the movie, and sung few of them as well and was also the music director of the film.

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

Filmography

Actor

• Dil Se (1998)
• Samurai (Tamil) (2002)
• Maqbool (2003)
• Butterfly (2003)
• Sala Bandar! (2003)
• Ek Din 24 Ghante (2003)
• Matrubhoomi (2003)
• Deewaar (2004)
• Super (Telugu) (2005)
• 1971 (2007)
• Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)
• Gulaal (2009)

Lyrics

• Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! (2000)
• Black Friday (2004)
• Aaja Nachle (2007)
• Tashan (2008)
• Gulaal (2009)

Screenplay and dialogues

• The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) - Dialogues
• Yahaan (2005) - Screenplay and dialogues
• 1971 (2007) - Screenplay

Singer

• Aarambh hai prachand (Gulaal-2009)
• Yara Maula (Gulaal-2009)
• Duniya (Gulaal-2009)
• Jab Sheher hamara (Gulaal-2009)

External links

• RagatoRock - India's No.#1 Music Magazine
• Piyush Mishra's performance in Maqbool
• Piyush Mishra plays at Bharat Rang Mahotsav '99
• Piyush Mishra enters songwriting - Mid-day, Jan 2005
• An Interview with Piyush Mishra