- Maya Miriga
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Maya Miriga Directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra Produced by Lotus Film International Written by Nirad N. Mohapatra Starring Kishori Devi
Sampad Mahapatra
Manaswini MangarajMusic by Bhaskar Chandavarkar Cinematography Raj Gopal Mishra Editing by Bibekanand Satpathy Distributed by Lotus Film International Release date(s) 1984 Running time 120 min. Country India Language Oriya Maya Miriga (1984(Oriya: ମାୟା ମିରିଗ, English The Mirage ) is an award-winning Oriya film film directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra.[1]
Contents
Story
The story of a family, where three generations live under a decaying roof. The widowed grandmother is the titular head, her son Raj Kishore Babu, father of four sons and a daughter, is the gentle yet disciplined headmaster on the verge of retirement. The father demands of his sons a diligent pursuit of education as the means of upward mobility. The centre of all their hopes is the brilliant second son studying in Delhi to get into the IAS. When he makes it to the coveted service, the family thinks all their sacrifices have been worth it. The family gets flattering proposals and the IAS probationer marries a city-bred girl above his status. The unvoiced protest comes from the eldest daughter-in-law Prabha, the beast of burden and kitchen slave. Her husband is a college lecturer. Prabha wonders if the IAS officer’s wife will share the chores. She is proved right when the new bahu defies tradition by opting to stay with her parents when the husband is away on training. With inexorable finality, she carts away her dowry of a new fridge and shiny laminated furniture to her independent home, setting off seething resentment in Prabha’s hitherto submissive mind. Inevitably, she nudges her husband towards independence, and he opts to be deputed to Cuttack. The bewildered patriarch seeks consolation in stoic acceptance of these changes, ruminating over the younger generation’s break for independence on his walks with a friend who waits for his America-based son. His is not the Shakespearean tragedy of a Lear — he is too dispassionate for that. But in his very real hurt, he has the comfort of memories to fall back upon just as his two older sons have their future to look forward to. The youngest son, the rebel whose passion is cricket, not only manages to get a first class but shames the IAS brother into financing his higher studies in Delhi. It is the timid third son whose second division in the all-important exam strands him in the backwaters of mediocrity, with a sense of being a failure and conscious of his father’s disappointment.
Cast
- Kishori Devi - Raj Kishore's wife
- Sampad Mahapatra -Tutu
- Manaswini Mangaraj - Prabha
- Manimala
- Binod Misra - Tuku
- Bansidhar Satpathy - Raj Kishore
- Sujata Mahapatra -Tutu's Wife
- Bibekananda Satpathy
- Shriranjan Mohanty
- Tikina
Crew
- Director - Nirad N. Mohapatra
- Screenplay - Nirad N. Mohapatra
- Camera - Raj Gopal Mishra
- Editor - Bibekanand Satpathy
- Music - Bhaskar Chandavarkar
Review
The director’s muted sympathy for the one who stays back gives Maya Miriga its poignant austerity. The gentleness of the unfolding and the contemplative insights offered into each individual’s feelings and motives, the naturalistic mise en scene enveloped in shadowy sepia tones imbue a familiar, ordinary tale of Indian life with melancholy poetry. [2]
Awards & Participation
- Cannes film festival(1984) -Critics Week Section [3][4][5]
- Mannheim-Heidelberg International FilmfestivalBest Third World Film(1984)[6]
- Regus London Film Festival (28th)[7]
- National Film Awards(1984)- Second best feature film
- Los Angeles Film Festival
- Orissa State Film Awards (1985) -Best Director,Best Film
- Locarno Film Festival/ festival di Locarno [8]
- Hawaii Film Festival-Special Jury Commendation
References
- ^ New York Times. "Maya Miriga (1985)". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/136985/Maya-Miriga/overview. Retrieved 29 October 2008.
- ^ a b http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020111/fspe.html/
- ^ http://www.screenindia.com/old/archive/archive_fullstory.php?content_id=9457
- ^ http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1368/year/1984.html
- ^ http://passionforcinema.com/india-in-cannes/
- ^ http://www.geocities.ws/curlybraces/movies/hindimovies.htm
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/event/2901
- ^ http://delcinema.it/news/2007-06/locarno_il_giorno_di_bruno_ganz.php
External links
- Review of 'Maya Miriga' in www.hollywood.com
- Review of 'Maya Miriga' in movies.yahoo.com
- Casting & Crew of 'Maya Miriga' in ftvdb.bfi.org.uk
- Review of 'Maya Miriga' in www.cinema80.com
Categories:- 1984 films
- Indian films
- Oriya-language films
- 1980s drama films
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