Bigyna Dahal


Bigyna Dahal is a sound designer and location sound recordist from Sikkim, India who has worked on several Indian films. His films have been screened and won awards at several international film festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Pingyao International Film Festival in China,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. and Best Sound Design for Khauf at the Filmfare OTT Awards 2025.

Education and work

He is a graduate of FTII, 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 which won the National Award for Best Sound Design in 2015. Bigyna also holds a degree in Physics with Photography from Fergusson college,

Filmography

YearLanguageTitleFilm Festivals
2025HindiKhaufSound DesignWinner Best Sound Design Filmfare OTT Awards 2025
2024HindiJal Tu Jalaal Tu | Sound Design and MixPrateek VatsMAMI Select: Filmed on iPhone
2023Toras HusbandSound DesignerBushan International Film Festival
2023Last Days of SummerSound DesignerIFFR
2023Which ColourSound DesignerIFFR
2022NazarbandSound DesignerPune International Film Festival
2020HindiGreen BlackberriesSound DesignerPeoples Film Collective
2020HindiEeb Allay OooSound DesignerPingyao International Film Festival, China in 2019
Berlin International Film Festival, 2020
Mumbai Film Festival, 2020
We Are One: A Global Film Festival
2019HindiGumnaam Din Sound DesignerEkta Mittal
Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Berlin International Film Festival 2020
Jaadui MachchhiSound DesignerMira Nair
Ektara Collective

Life After
That Cloud Never Left
2019Agar Wo Desh Banati/ If She Built A CountrySound Designer, MixerMaheen Mirza PSBTInternational Documentary and Short-film Festival of Kerala
Aise Hee
Anandi GopalPune International FIlm Festival
At home, walkingYamagath Documentary Festival
2018Sona Dhwandi Bhed Te Suchha Pahad Ridham Janve
My name is salt
Vaishnav Jan Toh
NazarbandMr MukhopadhyayBusan International Film Festival
2018HindiAbsenceEkta Mittal
  • Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2019
  • Busan International Film Festival 2018
  • Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
  • 2019
  • Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
  • 2018
  • 2017NepaliRalang RoadKarma Takapa
  • Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2017
  • Jio Mami Film Festival, 2017
  • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival