| 1 | '''Manmohan Mahapatra (b. 1951)''' |
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| 4 | First Oriya art-house director; later made |
| 5 | ruralist melodramas. Graduate from Utkal |
| 6 | University, then from the FTII (1975). Début |
| 7 | feature was a critical success, establishing the |
| 8 | landscape of feudal Orissa as the setting for |
| 9 | most of his films. His most acclaimed films are |
| 10 | Neerab Jhada and Klanta Aparanha. Early |
| 11 | films present a bleak and cynically tragic view |
| 12 | which, according to the director, emanates |
| 13 | from local conditions, although the cinematic |
| 14 | idiom deployed is similar to that of the |
| 15 | Assamese director Bhabendranath Saikia. |
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