Women in ikat saris, men in kurtas, posing for the cameras. People laughing, greeting each other outside the movie theatre. Amazingly, this was a screening of an Odia film, Phalguna Chaitra, at a ...

BHUBANESWAR: At a special session titled ‘Odia Literature and Odia Cinema: Will the Twain Ever Meet’, award-winning members of the regional film industry Prashanta Nanda, Surya Deo, Himansu Sekhar ...

He has done individually what the Government and the film industry have failed to do to preserve the legacy of the 80-year-old Odia film scene. He is Surya Deo, a journalist who is better known as an ...

About 25 years after 'Raja Harishchandra' and five years after the release of the first Hindi talkie 'Alam Ara', the first Odia film 'Sita Bibaha' was released at Laxmi Talkies in Puri. The indigenous ...

Film Symposium Contextual Issues Plaguing Odia Cinema A film symposium was held in a city hotel here on Wednesday where young Independent filmmaker Amartya Bhattacharyya, renowned Odia cinematographer ...

BHUBANESWAR: A group of filmmakers and actors started a dharna at Lower PMG Square in the city on Thursday demanding the government’s intervention for development of Odia film industry. The demands of ...

Uttam Mohanty, the iconic figure of the Odia film industry, passed away on Thursday night at the age of 66 while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Delhi. Known for his unmatched ...

Indian independent studio Platoon One Films (Ghaath, Yours Truly) is venturing into Odia cinema with a gentle family drama titled Bindusagar. Directed by Odia filmmaker Abhishek Swain, the film ...

Prominent film historian and critic of Odisha, Surya Deo has lamented the decline of originality in Odia cinema and said this was because it was not based any more on the literature of the state and ...

The Odia film Bindusagar is set to have its world premiere at the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa. Directed by Abhishek Swain from an Abhishek Das screenplay, the film will ...