Nirad Mohapatra
Nirad Mohapatra was born in Bhadrak, Odisha, India on November 12th, 1947 and is the Indian Film Director. At the age of 67, Nirad Mohapatra biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 1974 he founded Cinexstasy, a film society at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, screening classics of world cinema accompanied by analysis. He ran the society until 1983. He edited the film section of arts journal Mana Phasal, continued to lecture at FTII, wrote for national journals, made documentary films and taught a film appreciation course at Utkal University.
He married Sabita Mohanty in 1978, who, although the marriage was arranged, had attended the film appreciation course and Cinexstasy.
In 1984 Nirad made Maya Miriga, his first feature film, produced on a shoestring budget. It was shot in Puri, a beach-side town in Odisha. The film dealt with family issues, aspirations and break-up. It placed second in that year's Indian Panorama awards for Best National Film and was adjudged the Best Third World Film at International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany. It received a special jury award at Hawaii International Film Festival, US. It was selected for the 'Critics Week' of Cannes Film Festival (France), BFI London Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival and other International Film Festivals. In 1985, he was invited to visit four US universities to lecture on film.
Mohapatra specialised in documentaries. He was a member of the national film jury and member selection panel for Indian Panorama and a jury member for the 5th International Children's Film Festival, Bhubaneswar. He sat on the governing council of the Film and TV Institute, Pune. He was a member of the NFDC script committee for Odisha. He was twice member of the Academic Council, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. He was the chairman of the Academic Council of the Biju Patnaik Film and Television Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, and member of the Governing Council, SIET, Bhubaneswar. He was a guest lecturer at the Film School of KIIT University, Bhubaneswar.
He died of cardiac arrest on 19 February 2015.