Sabyasachi Mohapatra (born 27 August 1950 in Lehedi, India) is an Indian film director, writer, and producer in

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. He owns a production house named ''Mohapatra Movie Magic''.

Career

Mohapatra made his directorial debut in film

Bhukha ''Bhukha'' is a 1989 Indian Sambalpuri-language film directed by Sabyasachi Mohapatra. The movie was produced by Mohapatra under the banner of Kumar Productions and had music by Ramesh Kumar Mahananda. This movie is based on the Sambalpuri pla ...

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that won International Jury award at Gijon Film festival in

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. His movie

Jai Jagannatha ''Mu Odia, sabuthu Badhiya'' ''Jai Jagannatha'' is a 2007 Indian Sanātana Dharma film directed by Sabyasachi Maichiya, released in 15 languages. Besides Odia and Hindi, its dubbed versions were released in English, Bengali, Assamese, Chha ...

released in 2006, a

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film, was a mega-budget released in 15 different Indian languages. After 25 years, director Sabyasachi Mohapatra is back with

Sala Budha ''Sala Budha'' () is a 2012 Indian Sambalpuri language, Kosli language feature film directed by Sabyasachi Mohapatra. The film had won awards in seven categories at Odisha State Film Awards including best film and best director. Plot The story ...

in 2012. The film is based on a novel by renowned author Kapilesh Prasad Mohapatra (his father),the film was screened at the

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of in

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in 2013 and the film won seven awards, including the best actor award, at the

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. He directed another

Sambalpuri language Sambalpuri Odia is an Indo-Aryan language variety spoken in western Odisha, India. It is alternatively known as Western Odia, and as ''Kosali'' (with variants ''Kosli'', ''Koshal'' and ''Koshali''), a recently popularised but controversial te ...

film Aadim Vichar released in 2014 and the film won

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in Best Feature Film in Odia and also won Best director and Best actor award at 26th Odisha State Film Awards. In 2015,he worked on his next project ' Pahada Ra Luha' and which earned him back-to-back

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. The film won Best Feature Film in Odia at

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in 2015.

Filmography

Awards

* Ganakabi Samman awarded by Ganakabi Baishnab Pani Jayanti Committee in 2017. * International Jury award * Odisha Living Legend Award * Sambhabana Oriya cinema award

References

External links

* 1950 births Living people People from Subarnapur district Odia film directors Odia film producers Odia screenwriters Film producers from Odisha Film directors from Odisha 20th-century Indian people 21st-century Indian people {{India-film-director-stub