Chha Mana Atha Guntha | |
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Directed by | Parbati Ghose |
Written by | Parbati Ghose |
Story by | Fakir Mohan Senapati |
Based on | Six Acres and a Third by Fakir Mohan Senapati |
Produced by | Parbati Ghose |
Starring | Parbati Ghose Bijay Mohanty Sarat Pujari |
Edited by | Tapas Mukhopadhyay |
Music by | Prafulla Kar |
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Country | India |
Language | Odia language |
Chha Mana Atha Guntha is a 1986 Indian Odia language feature film directed and produced by Parbati Ghose. [1] [2] Bijay Mohanty and Parbati Ghose played lead roles in the film and Sarat Pujari in a negative role. The movie is based on the novel Six Acres and a Third by Fakir Mohan Senapati. [3] [4]
Ram Chandra Mangaraj, a landlord (Sarat Pujari) eyes on a highly fertile land of a married couple (wife Saria and Husband Bhagia) and plots conspiracy to snatch the land. The husband (Bijay Mohanty) becomes mad after losing the land. Their cow is also taken. The wife Saria (Parbati Ghose) was beaten to death by the landlord. The landlord suffers badly, hears the echoes of the woman in several emotions, who lost her husband, land and everything. The voice of the lady always heard by the landlord was - "Give me my 6 acres and 3rd, Give me my the cow". The landlord dies of his bad Karma.
After finishing film Sansaar in 1971, she announced with her husband her next project will be a movie based on Fakir Mohan Senapati's epic novel Chha Mana Atha Guntha . But somehow the project got delayed due to uncertain reason. However, after over a decade she was able to work on that project in 1986 she made her directorial debut, was produced and acted at the same time. [5] [6]
The film was Parbati's first directorial debut, based on Fakir Mohan Senapati's epic novel Chha Mana Atha Guntha , produced and acted in the film. Her work and the film was received critical acclaim. [7] [8]
Fakir Mohan Senapati, often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi, was an Indian writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer. He played a leading role in establishing the distinct identity of Odia, a language mainly spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. Senapati is regarded as the father of Odia nationalism and modern Odia literature.
Radhanath Ray was an Odia writer of initial modernity era in Odia poetry during the later part of nineteenth century. He was born in a Zamindar Hindu Karan family in Baleshwar, now in Odisha, and is honoured in Odia literature with the title Kabibara . In his early life, he composed in both Odia and Bengali languages, but later he shifted his writings in Odia only. He was born on 28 September 1848, at Kedarpur village in Baleswar district, Odisha. He has contributed verses and poetry for Odia literature in the nineteenth century.
Rebati, is a short story by Fakir Mohan Senapati, published in 1898. It is considered first ever short story published in Odia language.
Chha Maana Atha Guntha is a 19th-century Indian novel in the Odia language by Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843–1918), published in an English language translation by the University of California Press. Written long before Russia's October Revolution, it is the first Indian novel to deal with the exploitation of landless peasants by a feudal Lord in British India. Its author is known as the "Father of Modern Odia Literature".
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Parbati Ghose was an Indian actress, film director and film producer. Ghose was the first female filmmaker from the state of Odisha.
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