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Agni Veena

1990 ? col Oriya d/s Manmohan Mahapatra st Nandalal Mahapatra c Jehangir Mahapatra m Shantanu Mahapatra lp Hemanta Das, Bijoy Samal, Brindaban Barik, Ashim Basu, Jaya Swamy, Namrata Das, Pushpa Panda

Mahapatra expands his scale, usually featuring a small number of protagonists, to address the condition of a community of villagers in Orissa. Portrayed as an easygoing people with few needs, the villagers are unable to make sense of greater adversity which forces them either to pawn their belongings or to move to cities and work as contract labourers.

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