Early Life and Education
He was born and brought up in Lucknow. He is the grandson of former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Dwarka Prasad Mishra. His father, DN Mishra, was the founder member of Lucknow Film Society. He graduated from Delhi University, where, he met Badal Sircar and formed a theatre group called Workshop Theatre, and worked on several plays with him.
After one and half year with Badal Sarkar, Sudhir Mishra left for Pune. In Pune, he spent time at FTII, (Film and Television Institute of India), Pune, where his younger brother, Sudhanshu Mishra (to whom he credits to have learnt much of his cinema) was a student. Sudhir never studied at the institute himself.
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