Piyush Mishra

Piyush Mishra is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer and scriptwriter. Mishra grew up in Gwalior, and went to graduate from National School of Drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter, he started his career in Hindi theatre in Delhi. Over the next decade, he established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist and singer. He moved to Mumbai in 2002, receiving acclaim for his acting in Maqbool (2003) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012).In 2014 Hindi comedy film The Shaukeens Piyush Mishra acted alongside Anpuam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Lisa Hayden in the lead roles, and Akshay Kumar in a supporting role, Piyush did appear on Kapil Nights the Kapil Sharma Show to promote the film with Anpuam Kher & Annu Kapoor, although the film was a remake of the 1982 film Shaukeen directed by Basu Chatterjee, starring Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt, A. K. Hangal, Rati Agnihotri, and Mithun Chakraborty. It was well appreciated by audiences and voted by the public as the best comedy film of 2014.