''Kalira Atita''
is a 2020 Indian
Odia-language family film
A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that generally relates to children in the context of home and family. Children's films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for a general audience, while family films are made ...
directed by
Nila Madhab Panda, who earlier directed ''
I am Kalam'' and ''
Jalpari''. This movie talks about climate change and its repercussions. The director sent the film to the Academy Awards committee. The film won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Odia
The National Film Award for Best Odia Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal ...
.
Plot
Disillusioned Gunu, a young man from Satavaya village, travels relentlessly from the memories of a past cyclone into the eye of an upcoming one hoping to reunite with his lost family.
Cast
*
Pitobash Tripathy as Gunu
Reception
A critic from ''
Firstpost
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'' wrote that "In Nila Madhab Panda's National Award-winning Odia film, the lone actor Pitobash does his best to lend a human face to what is essentially an environmental documentary". A critic from ''Cinestaan'' said that "A fine blend of fiction and the documentation of the villages that have been submerged by the cyclones that routinely hit the Odisha coast, Kalira Atita gives us a glimpse of an impending doomsday scenario when humans, drunk on the ambition of taking civilization forward, will find survival increasingly difficult owing to the harrowing consequences of climate change".
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 14141184
Indian family films
2020s Odia-language films