''Shesha Shrabana'' is a 1976

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n movie. It is directed by

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. It stars

, Mahasweta Roy, Banaja Mohanty and Hemant Das. It is based on a novel of Basant Mahapatra by the same name. In 1979, the film remade as Naiyya in

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language by the same director. This film achieved great success in terms of box office and acclaimed by reviewers.

Synopsis

Sania (

) lives with his ailing mother and friend Makara in village. They are fishermen by profession. One day they find a girl named Manika ( Mahasweta Roy) in the river and rescue her. Sania brings the girls to his home and they look after the girl. After Manika gets well, Sania & Makara decide to return Manika to her parents. When they reach Manika's village, Manika's parent refuse to accept her back as she cohabited with lower caste people for some days. As no other way out, Sania takes Manika to his home. Manika falls in love with Sania. But Sania's heart doesn't allow him to accept the Manka's offer as Manika belongs to a higher caste. Sania, in the meantime tries to find out suitable match for Manika and finds a doctor, who comes to the village for the treatment of plague disease as the village was effected by plague. The doctor agrees to marry Manika and leaves the town to get his family's approval. But days pass away, the doctor doesn't return. All the villagers in the village complain against Sania and Manika living together. Manika could not bear the comments made by the villager and vanished. Sania could not control himself and turns insane.

Cast

... Sania * Mahasweta Roy ... Manika *

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... Makara * Banaja Mohanty... Gauri * Dukhiram Swain ... Nidhi Misra * Narendra Behera ... Bhola * Dhira Biswal ... Village Doctor *

Mohammad Mohsin Mohammad Mohsin called popularly as ''Mohsin'' was an Indian actor friend of Yasir, director and producer. In his movie career spanning more than 30 years across Bollywood, Odisha and West Bengal, he has acted and directed in many commercially ...

... Kashi

Soundtrack

Music of the film is composed by Prafulla Kar.

Box office

The film created a box office record and did run for several weeks in theaters.

Trivia

Actress Mahasweta Roy debuted in the film after played a small role in the film Sindura Bindu. The film was part of Indian Panorama in 9th

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1977 held in

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Awards

24th National Film Awards The 24th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Cinema of India, ...

** Best Feature Film in Odia *

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1976 ** Best feature film ** Best director ...

** Best story ... Basant Mahapatra ** Best composer - Prafulla Kar

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0246924 1976 films Odia films remade in other languages 1970s Odia-language films Films directed by Prashanta Nanda