Piyush Mishra was born on as Priyakant Sharma; 13 January 1963 and is an Indian actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, musician and screenwriter.
25 Facts About Piyush Mishra
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Piyush Mishra moved to Mumbai in 2002, receiving acclaim for his acting in Maqbool and Gangs of Wasseypur.
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Piyush Mishra was born on 13 January 1963 in a Brahmin family in Gwalior to Pratap Kumar Sharma.
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Piyush Mishra grew up as Priyakant Sharma and was adopted by his father's eldest sister Taradevi Mishra, who had no children.
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Piyush Mishra's parents admitted him to Carmel Convent School, Gwalior thinking that his education in a convent will help him excel in academics but it was activities like singing, painting and acting which appealed to him.
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Piyush Mishra later moved to Gwalior's JC Mills Higher Secondary School.
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Piyush Mishra took the entrance test to the National School of Drama, New Delhi in 1983, not with any particular desire to study but to get out of Gwalior.
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Piyush Mishra's acting breakthrough came in his second year at NSD, when German director, Fritz Bennewitz, directed him in the title role in Hamlet and introduced him to acting technique.
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Piyush Mishra was introduced to communism by his friend N K Sharma in 1989 and he was a thorough Leftist worker for 20 years.
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Piyush Mishra acted as Maniac in operation three star.
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Piyush Mishra is known for his performance in Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial as Suraj Singh, first with Ranjeet Kapoor and later under the direction of Arvind Gaur.
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Piyush Mishra briefly moved to Mumbai, as he acted in a television series, Rajdhani, directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia for Star TV, and Shyam Benegal's Bharat Ek Khoj and horror TV serial Kile ka Rahasya, though he returned to Delhi thereafter.
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Piyush Mishra made his debut as a film actor with Mani Ratnam's Dil Se.
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Piyush Mishra started writing lyrics with the film, Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar in 2002, and subsequently wrote for Black Friday, Aaja Nachle and Tashan.
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Piyush Mishra won accolades for his performance as Kaka in Vishal Bhardwaj's 2003 film Maqbool, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Piyush Mishra wrote his own dialogues for his performance as Hafeez Bhai in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, and delivered them in poetry style.
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Piyush Mishra again appeared in Anurag Kashyap's 2009 movie Gulaal, a movie based on Indian youth, politics, caste-prejudice, and other such social topics.
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Piyush Mishra played Prithvi, the poet brother of Dukey Bana, in the movie.
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Piyush Mishra wrote the lyrics for the songs in the movie, and sung few of them as well and was the music director of the film.
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Piyush Mishra has acted in Rockstar alongside Ranbir Kapoor and was known as the 'Image is everything.
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Piyush Mishra acted and wrote lyrics of some songs for the movie Gangs of Wasseypur.
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Piyush Mishra's songs are very high on poetic content and have received critical appreciation from all sections of audiences and critics.
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Piyush Mishra appeared in The Kapil Sharma Show to promote the film with Anupam Kher and Annu Kapoor.
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Piyush Mishra married Priya Narayanan in 1995, whom he met in 1992 while directing a play at the School of Planning and Architecture.
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Piyush Mishra lives in Goregaon East, Mumbai with his wife, who is an architect and two sons Josh who is studying at Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai and Jai.