Chha Mana Atha Guntha

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Chha Mana Atha Guntha
Directed by Parbati Ghose
Written byParbati Ghose
Story by Fakir Mohan Senapati
Based on Six Acres and a Third
by Fakir Mohan Senapati
Produced byParbati Ghose
StarringParbati Ghose
Bijay Mohanty
Sarat Pujari
Edited byTapas Mukhopadhyay
Music by Prafulla Kar
Release date
  • 30 November 1986 (1986-11-30)
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]

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Cast

Plot

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.

Development

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]

Reception

Critical response

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]

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