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Thirdly, I am personally against the Mumabi singers being entertained by producers here in order to flaunt big names. Secondly, we have achieved classical status only for the Odissi dance, not even Odissi music, which in other words means, culture-rich Orissa does not have a classical music to its credit. Why has the recent Oriya music scenario not made a worthwhile mark?īudding talents are here, but they do not quite go out of their way to learn their trade well enough, before jumping into the fray. Innovations are rare and original stories are rarer still. Yes, mental lethargy has set in here in Orissa among filmmakers.
So why should not audience want to experience dreams and enjoy an illusory world inside the cinema halls too. After all, we were all great fans of grandmother’s tale, and her tales were neither original nor had a touch with reality. I advocate the fantastical aspect of movies that do not necessarily touch reality. Is lack of originality an overriding influence on Oriya filmmaking? The good news is I always maintain a drive to attain higher satisfaction.
The moment I would feel contented, there would not be scopes for improvements. Has the actor in you ever got satisfied with life? I rushed there to be welcomed into the team of “Chilika Tire”, which also bagged National Award later. Lyricist Satyabrata Das felt it apt to inform me that director Biplab Rai Choudhury was waiting for me at Chilika along with the entire crew. I gave in to a satisfying teaching profession. I was as undecided as he was adamant to have me there. He asked me whether to become the first teacher in the drama department that the institute was going to open shortly. Then I came to Bhubaneswar and met the then Sangeet Natak Akademy secretary Manoranjan Das, whose dramas I had directed earlier. After 12 days, its shooting ended abruptly. I had not seen either the venue for shooting, Ranihat, Cuttack or this Babu Bhai, who I found out was Dr Basant Mohapatra.He had heard about me having passed from NSD and wanted me to act as the protagonist in his production “Sankalpa”, which was directed by Prafulla Mohanty. At the bus stand itself, a telegram arrived for me which said, “Come for shooting: Babu Bhai”. In 1975, I left Delhi, where I had cultivated considerable amount of experiences in theatres, thanks to NSD’s specialisation offer those days.īack home, I was directing many plays and also conducted a short term theatre training course for Orissa Government.īut when disillusionment about career prospects made me restless here and I was about to leave Orissa for good, something better happened. I said, as an Oriya I would come back to Orissa, rather Baripada, since, now let me confess, I had not stepped out of Baripada till I had left for NSD! At NSD, my classmates Nasseruddin, Raj Babbar, Om Puri etc turned for Bollywood and urged me to accompany. Like everything else, Ollywood merely ‘happened’ to me. How did you stumble upon Ollywood? Was Ollywood a necessary follow-up after NSD? So I think, I have neither sought inspirations, nor have I made any calculated moves. Incidentally, Baripada, those days used to encourage whoever wanting to exhibit talent.Īnd when I joined National School of Drama, the credit goes to Prasanna Mohanty, a senior from National School of Drama who saw me on stages, appreciated my talent and wanted me at NSD. From Class X till BA classes, I had acted in several plays. When I stepped on the stage to play a drama character role during Class X, it was a spontaneous decision.
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This successful life of a Star has been a result of an inspiration, a series planned efforts or mere circumstantial decisions?
This year marks the 25th year of this thespian’s uninterrupted run on home turf.īIJAYA MOHANTY takes time out to converse with SASWAT PATTANAYAK about his life and times. Personally he has won State Film Awards seven times and a National Award for contribution to art and literature. Three films where ha has acted, have bagged the prestigious National Awards. He has played diverse roles in more than 180 films he has acted in Oriya, Bengali, Hindi and Telegu. Bijaya Mohanty has been the most identifiable film personality in Orissa’s collective psyche.