Maya Miriga

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Maya Miriga
Directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra
Written byBibhuti Patnaik, Nirad N. Mohapatra
Produced by Lotus Film International
Starring Kishori Devi
Sampad Mahapatra
Manaswini Mangaraj
Cinematography Raj Gopal Mishra
Edited by Bibekanand Satpathy
Music by Bhaskar Chandavarkar
Distributed by Lotus Film International
Release date
  • 1984 (1984)
Running time
120 minutes
Country India
LanguageOdia

Maya Miriga (English:The Mirage) is a 1984 award-winning Odia film directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra. [1]

Contents

Story

The story is of a family, where three generations live under a decaying roof. The widowed grandmother is the titular head, her son Raj Kishore Babu, father of four sons and a daughter, is the gentle yet disciplined headmaster on the verge of retirement. The father demands of his sons a diligent pursuit of education as the means of upward mobility. The centre of all their hopes is the brilliant second son studying in Delhi to get into the Indian Administrative Service. When he is admitted to the IAS, the family thinks all their sacrifices have been worth it.

The family receives flattering marriage proposals and the IAS probationer marries a city-bred girl above his status. Unvoiced protest comes from the eldest daughter-in-law Prabha, beast of burden and kitchen slave. Her husband is a college lecturer. Prabha wonders if the IAS officer's wife will share the chores. She is proved right when the new bahu defies tradition by opting to stay with her parents when the husband is away on training. She takes her dowry of a new fridge and furniture to her independent home, causing strong resentment in Prabha. She nudges her husband towards independence and he opts to be deputed to Cuttack. The bewildered patriarch seeks consolation in stoic acceptance of these changes, ruminating over the younger generation's break for independence on his walks with a friend who waits for his America-based son. His is not the Shakespearean tragedy of a Lear — he is too dispassionate for that. But in his very real hurt, he has the comfort of memories to fall back upon just as his two older sons have their future to look forward to. The youngest son, the rebel whose passion is cricket, not only manages to get a first class but shames the IAS brother into financing his higher studies in Delhi. It is the timid third son whose second division in the all-important exam strands him in the backwaters of mediocrity, with a sense of being a failure and conscious of his father's disappointment. [2]

Cast

Review

The director's muted sympathy for the one who stays back gives Maya Miriga its poignant austerity. The gentleness of the unfolding and the contemplative insights offered into each individual's feelings and motives, the naturalistic mise-en-scene enveloped in shadowy sepia tones imbue a familiar, ordinary tale of Indian life with melancholy poetry. [2]

Restoration

Māyā Miriga was restored using the best surviving elements: the 16 mm original camera negative preserved at Film Heritage Foundation and a 35 mm print preserved at the NFDC-National Film Archive of India. [3]

The restoration was extremely challenging as the original camera negative was found by Film Heritage Foundation abandoned in a warehouse in a very poor condition with certain portions of the film having no image. The 35 mm print had also deteriorated over time. The image was very grainy and blurred in portions and the colours had faded to magenta. The restoration, which took almost three years, needed hours of work on the film repair, digital restoration and colour grading. [3]

The restored version of the film premiered at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024 [3] , and was later screened at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024 under the Restored Classics section. [4]

Awards and Participation

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