'''Manmohan Mahapatra (b. 1951)'''


First Oriya art-house director; later made
ruralist melodramas. Graduate from Utkal
University, then from the FTII (1975). Début
feature was a critical success, establishing the
landscape of feudal Orissa as the setting for
most of his films. His most acclaimed films are
Neerab Jhada and Klanta Aparanha. Early
films present a bleak and cynically tragic view
which, according to the director, emanates
from local conditions, although the cinematic
idiom deployed is similar to that of the
Assamese director Bhabendranath Saikia.


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