| 1 | '''Neerab Jhada''' |
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| 3 | |
| 4 | aka The Silent Storm |
| 5 | 1984 119’ b&w Oriya |
| 6 | d/sc Manmohan Mahapatra pc Chayadhwani |
| 7 | Prod. st Nandlal Mahapatra c Raj Sekhar, |
| 8 | B. Bindhani m Shantanu Mahapatra |
| 9 | lp Hemanta Das, Niranjan Patnaik, B. Tripathi, |
| 10 | R. Das, Jaya Swami, Manimala |
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| 12 | |
| 13 | Mahapatra’s melancholic rural realism, |
| 14 | deployed on an expanded canvas, tells of three |
| 15 | peasants confronting a dastardly landlord. One |
| 16 | of the friends goes crazy trying to find buried |
| 17 | treasure in order to recover his land; another |
| 18 | goes to the city where he finds even worse |
| 19 | forms of exploitation; the third has a more |
| 20 | complicated problem: his daughter falls in love |
| 21 | with an employee of the landlord. He too loses |
| 22 | his land and has to migrate, but in the process |
| 23 | delivers the film’s ‘voice of hope’, suggesting |
| 24 | that if sufficient numbers of people feel the |
| 25 | way he does, the future might still be bright. |
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| 27 | [[Film]] |