Bigyna Dahal (Bigyna Bhushan Dahal) is a sound designer and location sound recordist from Sikkim, India[1] who has worked on several Indian films.[2] His films have been screened and won awards at several international film festivals including Busan International Film Festival,[3] Pingyao International Film Festival in China,[4]MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. He has also won best sound design awards at many festivals including Filmfare Award for Best Sound – Marathi and Filmfare OTT Awards.[5]

Bigyna Dahal
Born
Sikkim, India
NationalityIndian
EducationSound Design, FTII

Education and Work

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He is a graduate of FTII,[6] Pune where he specialised in Sound Recording and Sound Design and three of his student films were awarded the National Award in the best short Film category. After finishing studies he moved to Mumbai and has been working on various feature films and documentaries.Busan International Film Festival He is associated with films like Ralang Road, Shahid, Mantra, Peddlers and Asha Jawar Majhe (LABOUR of LOVE) which won the National Award for Best Sound Design in 2015. Bigyna also holds a degree in Physics with Photography from Fergusson college,

Filmography

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Year Language Title Film Festivals
2024 Hindi Jal Tu Jalaal Tu | Sound Design and Mix Prateek Vats MAMI Select: Filmed on iPhone
2023 Toras Husband Sound Designer Bushan International Film Festival[7]
Last Days of Summer Sound Designer IFFR[8]
Which Colour Sound Designer IFFR[9]
2022 Nazarband[10] Sound Designer Pune International Film Festival
2020 Hindi Green Blackberries[11] Sound Designer Peoples Film Collective
Eeb Allay Ooo[12][13] Sound Designer Pingyao International Film Festival, China in 2019

Berlin International Film Festival, 2020

Mumbai Film Festival, 2020 (Golden Gateway Award)

We Are One: A Global Film Festival[14]

2019 Hindi Gumnaam Din (Missing Days)[15][16][17] Sound Designer Ekta Mittal

Public Service Broadcasting Trust[18]

Berlin International Film Festival 2020[19]
Jaadui Machchhi[20] Sound Designer Mira Nair

Ektara Collective[21]

  • 7th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2014
  • BYOFF (Bring Your Own Film Festival), Puri
  • 18th International Children’s Film Festival, Hyderabad, 2014
  • 10th IAWRT Asian Women’s Festival, 2014
  • IFFON (International Film Festival of Nepal), Kathmandu, 2017
Life After[22]
That Cloud Never Left[23]
2019 Agar Wo Desh Banati/ If She Built A Country[24][25][26] Sound Designer, Mixer Maheen Mirza [27]

PSBT[28][29]

International Documentary and Short-film Festival of Kerala[30]
Aise Hee [4]
Anandi Gopal[31][32][33] Pune International FIlm Festival
At home, walking[34][35] Yamagath Documentary Festival
2018 Sona Dhwandi Bhed Te Suchha Pahad[36] (The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain) Ridham Janve[37]
  • Dharamshala International Film Festival, 2018[38]
  • Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2018[39]
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam[40]
My name is salt[41]
Vaishnav Jan Toh[42]
Nazarband [43] Mr Mukhopadhyay Busan International Film Festival [43][44]
2018 Hindi Absence[45] Ekta Mittal
  • Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2019
  • Busan International Film Festival 2018
  • Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
  • 2019
  • Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
  • 2018
2017 Nepali Ralang Road[46] Karma Takapa
  • Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2017[47]
  • Jio Mami Film Festival, 2017[48]
  • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival[49]

References

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  2. ^ "Bigyna Dahal | Sound Department, Music Department, Composer". IMDb.
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  5. ^ "Nominations for the Filmfare OTT Awards 2023: Full list out". filmfare.com. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
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  10. ^ "Pune International Film Festival". www.piffindia.com. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
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  15. ^ "Pining as art". Mid-day. April 19, 2020.
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  39. ^ "Asia Pacific Screen Awards: Chinese Films Dominate Nominations List | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
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