Orissa Cinema

Bhubaneswar:
Today regional cinema has come of age. An Oriya film, ‘Jai Jagannath’, has been dubbed in 15 different regional languages apart from Oriya and English. The film has been shot using the DTS technique. The best of industry people have come together to make this project like; director Sabyasachi Mohapatra is a highly respected and successful Oriya filmmaker, B Chintu Mohapatra who is the producer of ‘Jai Jagannath’ has worked as line producer to Mani Ratnam, and Prakash introduced the remote control screen in ‘Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani’ and others. Both are specialised cinematographers who have worked on several big-budget bonanzas.

The film ‘Jai Jagannath’ is releasing all over India on Laxmi Pooja Day—April 27.The era of mythological films is coming back. Sabyasachi Mohapatra has directed ‘Jai Jagannath’ a film based on the ancient scripture Lakshmi Puran. Though Jagannath’s realm is restricted primarily to Orrisa, the film has been made in 13 other regional languages besides Oriya and English as this way the socially-relevant film will be able to take the message of reform for progress across the country and maybe through the world too. The film ‘Jai Jagannath’ is as much social as it’s mythological.

Sabyasachi Mohapatra is a highly respected and successful Oriya filmmaker. He has won several national and international awards including the prestigious ‘Utkal Jyoti’ award. His sensitively handled film ‘Bhuka’ was raved by critics both in India and abroad. He has made socially relevant movies besides box office hits and has been bridging the gap between art and the so called commercial cinema. He had been one of the film juries for National Awards and has also made noteworthy documentaries like India 24 Hours and several televisions programmes.

All his five brothers are top-ranking technicians. They all got together and arranged the finance themselves. Bharat Shah, was approached and immediately agreed to not only help with finance but will also be releasing the film all over India. The impact of the movie was such that the family of director as well as the entire film team turned vegetarian through the course of the film.

As per Regional Associations Rules, one can not dub any film from Hindi to other regional languages mainly in Eastern circuit, so it was decided to shoot the film in two original languages i.e. Hindi and Oriya & then to dub from Oriya to Bengali, Assamees and from Hindi to other Regional languages. The most challenging language among all the languages was English. Perhaps for the first time, all six songs of the film were also recorded in English language. The film is also dubbed in Nepali language as Nepal is the only Hindu country in the world.