Orissa Cinema

Upcoming release for next month: Hasiba Puni Mo Suna Sansara!

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Photographs by Ashok Panda.

Star Cast: Sidhanta Mohapatra, Anu Chodhary, Mihir Das, Aparajita Mohanty, Mamuni Mishra, Hadu, Jorge Tiadi, Madhu, Saraswati, Debu Bramha, Manisha, Jayprakash Das, Asrumochan, Banamali Pandia, Nilu, Pintu Nanda.
Camera, Direction: Ranjan Mishra
Producer, Story: Babu Singh
Dialogue: Dr Rajani Ranjan
Make-up: Santanu
Music: Bubu Mishra

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Chaka Chaka Bhaunri exclusive film shots for Orissacinema readers!
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by Ashok Palit

After Sabyasachi Mohapatra’s Jai Jagannath was released on 13th July (check the blog for detailed story) with 3000 print in 15 languages, Ollywood surely awaited some more news and updates. Orissacinema presents to you a few more:

1. Dubbing work of Suvendu Swain’s “Chaka Chaka Bhaunhari” has been completed. This film is scheduled to be released during Ganesh Puja.

2. Sangram Biswal’s “Lal Tuktuk Sadhab Bahu” is at its editing phase. This film is scheduled to be released during Dashahara.

3. Chakradhar Sahoo’s directed “Tumaku Paruni Ta Bhuli” is also awaiting release.

4. New film “Kalingaputra” promises to fight against corruption. This film is being directed by Barada Prasanna Tripathy and produced by Debananda Panda. Music is being composed by Swarup Nayak.

Though Bijay Kandoi’s forthcoming film was initially titled “Police Officer”, its director Himanshu Parija has refused to entertain such a name!
Will it run into controversies? Time to wait and watch.
At least one thing is certain: yesteryears singer Deepak Kumar will be scoring the music for this film.

(by. Ashok Palit)

Prasanat Nanda directed “Kali Shankar” film shooting is going on in full swing at Puri. The film stars in lead roles Anuvab, Sidhant, Arindam, and Anu Choudhury. Bollywood BadMan Ashis Vidyarthi also stars in this eagerly awaited film. Music is composed by Santiraj Khosala.

Co-director Basant Sahoo takes on as the action director whereas Prasanat Nanda is taking care of the drama portion of the film.

Mr Amiya Pattnaik has clapped the mahurat shot of SAMAYA HATARE DORI at Hanuman Temple near CRP Square at Bhubaneswar.

The film credits are as follows:

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Presented by - Choudhary Ashok Das
Proudced by - Smt. Tilotoma Das, Choudhary Pinky Das
Script & Direction - Amulya Das
Music - Rati-Alok
Lyrics-Nizam, Arun Mantri, Purendu Dasmohapatra, Ratikant Barik, Purna Mohapatra
Vocals: Namita Agrawall, Md. Aziz, Manas Pritam, Kumar Bapi, sailabhama, Tapu Mishra, Pami
Camera: Ganeswara Mohapatra
Art - Partha Mohanty
Dance - Murali Babu
Fight - kundatara Babu
Costume - Babuni
Make up - Promod
Graphics - sasikant Rout
Still Photo - Tukuna (Payal Studio)
Star Cast - Sidhant, Anu Choudhrary,Mihir Das, Meghna Mishra, Debajani, Debu Bose, Braja singh, Suman, Neelam, Nayanatara, Raja Mohanty, Ashok Bal, Krushna, Chanda, Tota, Pagul, Bijoy Mohanty (Rourkela), Hena, Julie, Satyanaran Bhatter, Sapan Gupta, Arun, Master swaraj, Baby Nikitaa and Aparajita

Orissacinema wishes her readers a Happy Ratha Jatra!

We also invite you to the premier show of Jai Jagannath which took place in Bhubaneswar!

(Photographs by Ashok Panda)

By Ashok Palit

Following the heels of season’s top releases, upcoming is the new Oriya film “Samaya Hatare Dori“. This star-studded extravaganza is awaiting its Mahurat on July 17th.

“Samaya Hatare Dori” is produced by Choudhary Ashok Das, and directed by Amulya Das. The much-awaited film stars some of the biggest names in Oriya film industry: Aparajita, Mihir Das, Anu, Debajani, Hadu, and Braja.

Stay tuned and look out for more on this space for the updates on “Samaya Hatare Dori”!

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Remember E Mana Manena?

The Mihir Das/Arindam/Kajal/Barsha starrer is currently running houseful and also is mired with controversies.

The film has entered into a legal problem as Hyderabad-based film production house M/s Prasad Production Pvt Ltd (PPPL) has alleged the movie has violated Copyright Act.

The movie `Ea Mana Manena’ produced under the banner M/s Maa Bhavani Pictures of Bhubaneswar was released on March 29 just hours before a lower court in Bhubaneswar had restrained its producer from releasing the movie. The producer of the movie Bijaya Kumar claimed as the movie was released before the court verdict was pronounced, the court’s ruling had become “in-fructuos” and the same was not binding on him. The young film producer, who has made a movie after almost a decade of his premier movie in 1995, has also challenged the lower court’s order in Orissa High Court. A fast track court of Bhubaneswar had on March 29 restrained the producer from releasing its movie after taking up a petition filed by the managing director of PPPL. The PPPL in its petition had prayed for an ad-interim injuction against Bijaya Kumar and urged the court to restrain him from releasing his movie as the later has violated the Copyright Act. The Hyderabad-based film production house claimed in his petition that the Oriya movie is a copy of a Telugu blockbuster film `Arya’.

The managing director of PPPL in his petition had claimed that he had purchased the copyright of the Telugu film in January 2006 for Rs 37 lakhs to make films in other different languages, including Oriya language. But the Oriya film producer maintains that the storyline of his romantic movie is entirely of his own and he has not copied it from any other cinema. “I have never seen the Telugu film `Arya’ nor have I read or heard about its content. I released my movie after obtaining a certificate from the Censor Board, Kolkata,” Bijaya Kumar who is also in construction business told mediapersons here .

Petition filed

He also said his movie was running full house in many places and it would be released in other cinema houses of the soon. In order to avoid any further legal hassles over his movie, Bijaya Kumar also filed an application before the Orissa High Court on Monday urging the court to set aside the lower court’s order of March 29.