Oriya Movies: Journey of Seventy five years

Writing about the Oriya Movies requires one to be a keen observer of the latest trends in culture and art fusing together. A lot of movies are produces in Ollywood that accounts for about the several corers of business.

This entertainment industry is flourishing due to increased awareness among local people of the Orissa about the developing this own art and adds a lot to enhance to language foundation.

This is not a gossip bent of mind that states that Oriya Movies are at par with the Indian movies that are fascinating more than 80% of the Indian viewers. Oriya film industry has come long way from to first Oriya movie “ Sita Bibah” produced by Mohan Sunder Deb Goswami in 1936. This movie was based on the drama written by Kamala Mishra focusing on the epic Ramayana. This was a tale of marriage of Sita and Ram. This movie had more than 14 songs.

It was a mile stone that founded the basis of Oriya Movies industry. The journey of the Oriya film production was very slow as the first film that received national award was Srilokenath that was produced in 1960 and is counted to be eleventh movie produced after 24 years of “Sita Bibah”. Now days you can easily observe that more than 40 movies are produced in Ollywood.

Oriya cinema industry owes its progress to many founders who made it parallel to the Indian cinema. Prasanta Nanda is one of those actors who has not only earned a repute for themselves but also add to the glory of the Oriya cinema.

He won the national award for his debut film Nou Bou. He has served the industry in many roles be it actor, director, lyricist and the writer. He has contributed to the industry a lot and won the national awards for 1960, 1966 and 1969 for his acting. Oriya movies have the impact of the Bengali cinema also. Mrinal Sen famous director from Bengali film industry has directed an award winning film Matira Manisha.

This industry has given many stars a platform to show their performance. No days there are many film s produced in Ollywood that are not only technically sound but at par with the Indian main stream cinema. But it is quite evident that the commercial cinema has put the artistic perception as depicted in old movies is missing. This is true with main stream cinemas also. There are several factors behind this. 

Now days the film production is very costly affair therefore to have commercial viability of the project produces are focused on promotion of their movies. There are several online portals in Orissa that are adding to make a spree on coming films, their star cast and music. This phenomenon is quite apparent in other walks of life also. This is far sure that inclination of the society towards online services has brought a lot of changes. http://www.odishatoday.org/