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Piyush Mishra’s crooked, honest memoir
Updated On: 14 December, 2025 11:55 AM IST | Mumbai | Akshita Maheshwari
Through his novelised memoir, actor, thespian, singer, writer, and much more, Piyush Mishra tells a tale of many cities and how they shaped him to be the artiste he is today
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Piyush Mishra at his Andheri office. Pic/Nimesh Dave
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I, me, and myself. That’s all I could write if I had written an autobiography,” says Piyush Mishra. We sit in the Tamboo Media office, a quaint space, full of young blood, all excited to be in the presence of this monolith of art, song, theatre, and cinema. For those who’ve only brushed past his name, Mishra is many things at once — a poet who sings, an actor who writes, a musician who performs with his whole soul, and now latest, a novelist with his new book Tumhari Auqaat Kya Hai, Piyush Mishra. A fresh take on memoirs, his book assumes Mishra to be a fictionalised version of himself, Santap Trivedi urf Hamlet. In the book, Mishra fictionalises friends and foes. “Many would have been hurt if I would have put their real names. So I changed their names to protect their dignity. And no one would be hurt too, except for one director. I won’t name him still, but everyone would know him if you read the book,” says Mishra in the quiet of his office.
“Thoda tedha novel hai, par ekdum seedha bhi hai [It’s a crooked novel, but it’s also very straight],” he says. It’s a memoir in the true sense then, because that’s the person Mishra is. Unconventional and eccentric (he’s a theatre kid, after all), yet very straight to the point. He sits down with Sunday mid-day to discuss life, theatre, cinema, and the new adventure of his book.
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