Lalita
Lalita is the second Odia movie. Also the first Odia movie released post independence after a span of twelve years from the first Odia movie, Sita Bibaha. Makhanlal Banerjee (who played Bhagwan Ram) was the lead in the first Odia movie while his wife Uma Banerjee played lead in the second Odia movie Lalita.
Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik
Gourendra Pratap Singhdeo
Kalyan Gupta
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Cast & Crew
Uma Banerjee
Directing
Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik
Art Direction
Bansi Chandragupta
Movie Details
Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik made ‘Lalita’ which showed the story of King Indrdyumna searching for Nila Madhava. Lalita was also the first movie to document Odissi dance.
Plot:
King Indradyumna completed a Temple at Puri, but cant find the living deity Nila Madhaba (Lord Jagannath). He sent messengers in all directions to bring him the news about Lord Nila Madhaba.
One Brahmin messenger Bidyapati comes across a Savara village in the dense forest and stays there as guest to the Savara King Biswabasu. Bidayapati gets the hearsay about Biswabasu, who, secretly keep the lord Nila Madhaba in a remote cave and worships. Bidyapati pretends to falls in love with Biswabasu’s daughter Lalita and finally marry her. Lalita persuades her father to show her husband, the Lord. Biswabasu agrees and takes Bidyapati to the remote secret cave. Bidyapati plans to take the deity to Puri, but the deity vanishes at last.
Directed by: Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik
Story, Dialogues: Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik
Produced by: Gourendra Pratap Singhdeo
Production Co: Great Eastern Movietone
Distribution: Vibrotik Distributors
Production-in-Chief: Brindaban Mohapatra
Technical Adviser: Kalyan Gupta
Management: Lokanath Mishra
Production Manager: Pankaj Lochan Nanda
Editing: Baidyanath Chatterjee, Kalyan Gupta
Art: Bansi Chandragupta
Make-up: Tinikori Adhikari
Cinematography: Prakash Digpal
Choreography: Anadi Prasad
Audiography: N. Banerjee
Stills: Roshan Lal
Processed at: Bengal Film Laboratory Pvt. Ltd.
Produced at: Bengal National Studios
Lyrics: Kabichandra Kalicharan Pattnaik
Music: Gaur Goswami, Suren Paul
Cast: Brundaban Mohapatra, Chandra Sekhar Mishra, Damodar Das, Giridhari Panda, Jadumani Kanungo, Krushna Jena, Sumati Devi, Uma Bannerjee, Lokanath Mishra, Nalini Tripathy, Pankaj Lochan Nanda, Prafulla Singhdeo and others
Image Credit: ‘Lalita’ booklet and ad images courtesy eminent cine researcher and writer Surya Deo
