Odisha Director Nila Madhab Panda To Make A Crime-Environment Film – ODISHA BYTES

Well-known Odia filmmaker, Nila Madhab Panda, acclaimed for initiatives like ‘Kadvi Hawa’ and ‘I Am Kalam’, is presently scripting his subsequent, a criminal offense atmosphere movie set sooner or later. Panda’s yet-untitled movie will additional his drive to chronicle tales of local weather change on display, The Indian Express (TIE) reported quoting PTI.
“My next is a crime investigative environment project, set in the future. It’s a new genre for me. It’s almost like how would you survive without rivers? The writing is going on, it’ll take at least a year to go on floors. The idea was with me for a long time but I’m finally working on it,” Panda instructed PTI on the sidelines of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
Panda’s Odia movie ‘Kalira Atita’ was screened within the Indian Panorama, non-feature movie part on the pageant, the report added. The 46-year-old filmmaker is thought for highlighting social and environmental causes by way of his work.
His 2018 launch ‘Halkaa’ was the story of a younger slum boy from Mumbai who desires of proudly owning a rest room, whereas ‘Kadvi Hawa’ was based mostly on true tales from drought-prone areas. It acquired a Special Mention on the sixty fourth National Film Awards.
‘Kalira Atita’ offers with the impression of local weather change by way of the story of a person who has misplaced his house and household to the ocean. The movie was shot in 2019 with a crew of 60. Panda mentioned the movie is a “striking reality”, born out of a newspaper clipping he noticed the place a hand pump was submerged within the sea in Odisha, the report added.
“When I did my research, I got to know how four villages were submerged in the east coast of Orissa. We can’t even imagine the impact climate change will have in the future. My films talk about this shock value. I may not be able to change people. But at least I can raise questions,” he was quoted as saying.
Panda mentioned his 83-minute film locations the emotional trauma of a person on the centre of its storytelling and traces the devastating results the tragedy has on him.
“The protagonist in my movie is a sufferer of the customarily neglected but most necessary emotional impression of local weather change. It seems that the ocean engulfs his village, after which he involves assume that his household and his village have gone to the ocean.
“He starts believing that there awaits a better world for him. My film focuses more on the emotion of that man. Kalira Atita means yesterday’s past; my protagonist is literally living in the past,” he was quoted as saying by PTI.