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 ...

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 ...

Actor Manoj Mishra highlighted issues in the Odia film industry at the International Film Festival of India, discussing the ...

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 ...

This year, Odia filmmaker Anupam Patnaik’s movie ‘Pratikshya’, inspired by a short story by Gourahari Das, has been selected to be screened at the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

Forty years after its original premiere, the Odia film Maya Miriga (1984), a touchstone of the Parallel Cinema movement, will be presented in a restored version at the Cinema Ritrovato Festival in ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exhibition of Odia film magazine covers was inaugurated today at the Odisha State Archives. The exhibition, called Chhayalipi, showcases as many as 75 film magazines that were or have been ...

Veteran Odia actor Uttam Mohanty passed away due to liver-related ailments in a private Gurugram hospital on Thursday, family sources said. Mohanty, 66, is survived by wife Aparajita Mohanty, and son ...