ORIYA FILMMAKER DEAD | 15 January, 2020

National award-winning Oriya filmmaker Manmohan Mahapatra passed away on 13th January in Bhubaneswar. He was 68. Besides being a film director, he was also a producer and writer. He had won eight National awards consecutively. Among the films for which he won awards were Nishita Swapna, Majhi Pahacha, Tired Afternoon, Neeraba Jhada, Seeta Raati and Bhinna Samaya.