Orissa Cinema Blog
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History of Indian cinema
....The Hindi avante garde or new wave seems to have reached its bloom period towards the end of the seventies with the coming of film makers like Govind Nihalani (Aakrosh), Saeed Mirza (Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai, Aravind Desai ki Ajeeb Daastan), Rabindra Dharmaraj (Chakra), Sai Paranjpe (Sparsh), Muzafar Ali (Gaman) and Biplab Roy Chowdhari (Shodh). The movement spread to the other regional cinemas such as Marathi, Gujarathi, Assamese, Oriya and Telugu. Directors like Jabbar Patel (Samna, Simhasan), Ramdas Phuttane (Sarvasakshi), Ketan Mehta (Bhavni Bhavai). Babendranath Saikia(Sandhya Rag), Jahanu Barua (Aparoopa, Papori), Manmohan Mohapatra (Klanta Aparanha, Majhi Pahacha), Nirad Mohapatra (Maya Miriga) and Gautam Ghose (Ma Bhoomi) came to the scene with their films....

Indian New Wave Cinema
An analysis by K Hariharan:
...The more “realistic” and”“tedious” films among them, like the works of Shyam Benegal and Adoor Gopalakrishnan, would qualify for the prestigious events, like Cannes or Berlin. And the so-called “marginal” among them, like the works of Jahnu Barua and Manmohan Mahapatra, would end up in obscure Valladolid, Spain or Palm Springs, California. But more often than not these selections were totally arbitrary and ad-hoc....

IMDB Profile: Manmohan Mahapatra