Uttam Mohanty is an Indian actor who has to his credit more than 135 Odia films to date and has acted in 30 Bengali films and in a Hindi film Naya Zaher.
Naiyya is 1979 Hindi language drama movie directed by Prashanta Nanda and starring Prashanta Nanda himself and Zarina Wahab.
Prashanta Nanda is an Indian National Award Winner director, actor and politician from the state of Odisha. Actor-director duo Siddhanta Mahapatra and Prashanta Nanda Given 8 all time blockbuster Movies to Ollywood. He is currently a Member of Parliament at Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, for Odisha. He worked in the Odia film industry as an actor, director, screenwriter, lyricist and playback singer. He was also a former minister in Odisha state.
Siddhanta Mahapatra and known professionally as Siddhant/Muna bhai, is an Indian actor, producer, film distributor and television personality, who works predominantly in Odia, Telugu and Tamil cinema and along with few Bengali, Bhojpuri, Kannada and Marathi films. Referred to worldwide by his fans as "Dynamic Star" for his roles in action films, Siddhanta has acted in 185 movies with most of them being lead roles. He is the only actor to win 7 Odisha State Film Awards back-to-back, during 2000–2006, including five Filmfare Awards East awards and two-time National Award Winner First Odia-Tamil Movie Kotiye Re Gotiye (2000) and only Indian actor to win National Award for best actor in a negative role for movie Swayamsiddha (2010). He has produced and distributed 102 movies various Indian languages under his venture Omm Divya Vision Home Motion Picture, which was founded in 1992. Newcomer debutant like Uday Kiran, Sushant Singh Rajput, Prasanna, Arindom Ray, Sambit Acharya, Swaraj Barik, Chandan Kara, Debashis Patra major break-through successful movies in his production house.
Sri Lokanath is a 1960 Indian Odia-language film directed by Prafulla Sengupta, and based on a story by Aswini Kumar Ghosh. This Indian socio-fantasy film won a National Film Award in 1960, and was the 11th Odia film produced under Ruprang Pvt. Ltd. It was the first Odia film to receive a National Award.
Krishna Chandra Panigrahi, often referred to as K.C. Panigrahi, was a notable Indian historian, archaeologist and literary expert from Odisha.
'Suramani' PanditRaghunath Panigrahi was an Odissi music Guru, vocalist, composer and music director. He is most known for his renditions of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda and his vocal support for his wife, the Odissi danseuse Sanjukta Panigrahi. Raghunath belonged to a family associated with Odissi music for centuries, members of which were 19th-century Odissi poet-composer Sadhaka Kabi Gourahari Parichha and Gayaka Siromani Apanna Panigrahi who was the royal musician (raja-sangitagya) of Paralakhemundi. He started his musical training from his father Pt Neelamani Panigrahi, who had been collecting traditional Odissi melodies of the Gita Govinda from the Jagannatha Temple of Puri. Later, Raghunath continued learning Odissi music under Pt Narasingha Nandasarma and Pt Biswanatha Das. He was widely known as 'Gitagobinda Panigrahi'.
Bijay Mohanty was an Indian actor of Odia Cinema. He was honored a National Film Award.
Sisir Mishra is an Indian film director and screenwriter best known for directing Hindi and Odia language films including Bheegi Palkein, Samay Ki Dhara, Billoo Baadshaah, TADA and Aseema.
Nua Bou is a 1962 Indian Odia film directed by Prabhat Mukherjee, which presents the sociocultural scenario of rural village life in India.
Pratibha Satpathy is a poet of Odia literature. She has been recognised as one of the leading poets of the country and has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Manmohan Mahapatra was an Odia filmmaker, director, producer, and writer. He won eight consecutive national film awards for his films Nishita Swapna, Majhi Pahacha, Tired Afternoon, Neeraba Jhada, Seeta Raati, and Bhinna Samaya, among others.
Jagannath Prasad Das is an Indian writer, poet, playwright and novelist who writes in Odia.
Tattwa Prakash Satapathy, better known by his stage name Papu Pom Pom, is an Indian film, television, Music Director, standup comedian and an Odisha Legislative Assembly candidate. Satapathy has acted in over 50 Odia movies. He was the main lead in the well-known Odia television comedy serial 'Excuse Me: Jaha Kahibi Sata Kahibi, Faltu Katha, Aita bayata. He acted more than 500 characters in Television.
Kaunri Kanya, English: Possessed Girl, is the first 3D Oriya horror film, directed by debutant director Soumya Ranjan Sahu and produced by his brother Ramya Ranjan Sahu. The film stars several debutant actors. The film was also dubbed into Tamil. It is the first Oriya film to feature an underwater sequence which was shot in Vizag. While most of the shooting happened in Surangi, Ganjam, Odisha, the background score and music were done by South Indian artists Satya and Mithun. Prakruti Mishra gives a special appearance in the film.
Dharitri is a social satire drama in Odia, released on 30 March 1973. It is based on Amulya Kumari Patnaik's novel of the same name. Sarat Pujari, Prashant Nanda, Sriram Panda, Parbati Ghosh and Dhira Biswal acted in key roles.
Stree is a 1968 Oriya film directed by "Siddhartha", which is a pseudonym for Gour Prasad Ghose, Parbati Ghose, & Ram Chandra Thakur.
Pahada Ra Luha is a 2015 Indian Sambalpuri language feature film directed by Sabyasachi Mohapatra. The film has won 63rd National Film Awards for Best Feature Film in Odia category.
Anita Das was an Indian film and television actress in Odia cinema. She received three Odisha State Film Awards during her career. Das died of cardiac arrest which resulted from a heart attack on 11 May 2018 at the age of 64.
Satyabrata Tripathy is an Indian actor, radio personality, VJ and television presenter, who mostly work on Odia language films and television shows. He is appointed as the chairman of Odisha Film Development Corporation by the Government of Odisha in 2018. In his career, he has worked is Script, Lyrics, Dialogue & Direction. He has also scripted and directed many Docu-Dramas, and telefilms.
