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 ...

Veteran Odia actor Uttam Mohanty passed away at 66 while undergoing treatment in Gurugram. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and other dignitaries mourned his death, calling him a 'guiding star' of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bhubaneswar, Jan.13: People from all walks of life paid tributes to veteran Odia film personality Hara Patnaik, who died at a hospital here today. The 57-year-old actor, who had been battling blood ...

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 ...