Of Odia movies & Luchakali

Incidentally after a long gap of about 15 years I watched an Odia movie with my father in a city plex along with Ashish Gadanayak & Surya Deo.  The later duos are well known cine-journalists as well as authors. I can memorize the last full movie I had watched with my parents in Nayagarh cinema hall in 1997. Perhaps the name of the movie was "Sasu Hatakadi Bhauja Bedi". Since then I have seen a few Odia movies on TV & during my 6 years with print & visual media I had tried to watch a few in halls, even me & Ashish bhai both had gone to watch together. But unfortunately we had to left the hall within a few minutes. But for the first time on last Sunday "LUCHALALI" made us to sit for more than three hours.
Though I have met some of the characters from this movie earlier in many Bollywood movies, even in a serial from LifeOK channel, I dare to say LUCHAKALI  is an original one. This is original in making, original in pictorial imagination & original in direction. It's a common hypothesis that Odia movies are substandard. But for the first time young director Sushant Mani visualizes LUCHAKALI to prove it false. And he proves that Odia films are not only for those who don't understand great films, it's for intellectuals & true film lovers.
Once upon a time when there were no technological advancement, no money to take risks, not a satisfactory number of viewers to watch movies; in that time our creative minds had taken risks and made new-wave & semi-parallel movies which were proved as hit ones. But ironically now a days though we have much money(even some people in Odisha are making movies only to waste money), modern technology, many cinema halls, quality filmy minds & finally more people to watch Odia movies, still our producers/directors are not ready to take risks. Most of the movies, now a days, in Odisha are copies even frame-to-frame. And the shameless producers/story-writers are receiving awards as if they have invented it of their mind. Some years ago with Ashish Bhai I went to watch an Odia movie, I can't recall the name, which was said to be a copy from Raja Hindustani. Shit. Our movie-makers even don't know how to copy. We left the hall after half an hour. However Sushant mani's Luchakali is an exception, a small boat of hope in blindfolded sea of contemporary Odia moves. Sushant Mani is young & dynamic and has all talent to present you a national class(may be classic) movie. But I think he also need to be freed from the paws of so-called copy-acquainted Odia producers. Likewise others just I found one poster of Sushant Mani's upcoming movie Sweetheart an optical copy from a wellknow telugu movie's poster. As I already have become a fan of Sushant mani, through this blog I would like to request him not to copy from others & not to prove us wrong.