Pawan K Shrivastava[1][2][3] is a film maker, writer, blogger and activist born in 1982, in the town of Marhaura, Bihar State, India.

After completing high school, he went to Allahabad for further education, and then to Delhi to work and study computer science.

He left in 2008 and returned to Bihar to aid, make documentaries on, and direct plays on social issues.

[4] Pawan is also the Director of Bihar's first independent crowd funded film,[5] Naya Pata.

[13] Pawan's first film Naya Pata is scheduled to release on 27 June through PVR Director's rare.