Bijesh Jayarajan

42 years of age. Screenwriter, Theatre Director and Television Director. Born in Kerala, India, did his schooling in Jamshedpur, then a part of Bihar. These formative years spent in feudal, caste plagued Bihar defined his artistic outlook and politics which are an integral part of his writing. While attending college at the Delhi University, he started working with theatre groups like Act One and Jan Natya Manch, and for more than 9 years contributed to the cause of socially relevant theatre. Moved to Mumbai in 1998, and has since then been creating a niche for himself, by writing research based, socially relevant films and alternative television shows. Wrote dialogue for 'Gafla' which, featured in the Guardian's top 10 films of the Times BFI London Film Festival, 2006. 'Summer 2007' is his first original screenplay, where he uses a popular narrative style to highlight the agrarian crisis driving farmers to suicide as a result of Urban myopia and Rural Neglect. "Yudh' was a first of its kind Original Mini Series made on Indian Television, which starred Amitabh Bachchan and was creatively produced by Anurag Kashyap.