Susant Misra is an Oriya film director whose films have been screened and feted at many international film festivals.

Early life

Born in

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Orissa Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of Sch ...

, he is a postgraduate diploma-holder in screenplay writing and direction from the

FTII, Pune The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile ...

Career

While he was studying at FTII his diploma film ''Nischal Badal'' was screened at the competitive section of Oberhausen Film Festival in

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. After completing his diploma, in 1993 he directed his first feature film '' Indradhanur Chaai'' that won him the Grand Prix at the

Sochi International Film Festival Kinotavr (russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasi ...

in Russia and was official selection in ''Un Certain Regard'' at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1995. '' Biswaprakash'' was his second film that was also screened at several international festivals and won Silver Lotus for Best Oriya Film in the

National Film Awards The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorat ...

in 2000. '' Dharini'' is his third feature film that was made both in

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

and

Odia Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: * Odia people in Odisha, India * Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family * Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...

. He also made three documentaries, ''Dhenkanal – A Multifaceted Paradise'', ''Samarpanam'' on the eminent

Bharat Natyam Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of ...

dancer

Malavika Sarukkai Malavika Sarukkai is an Indian classical dancer and choreographer specializing in Bharatanatyam. A 2002 winner of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, she was honoured by the Government of India in 2003 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian ci ...

and ''Pearls of Wisdom'' on Oriya Literature for the Children’s Film Society, India.

Filmography

*''Nischal Badal'' (1989) *'' Indradhanur Chaai'' (1993) *''Dhenkanal – A Multifaceted Paradise''(1995) *''Samarpanam'' (1997) *'' Biswaprakash'' (1999) *'' Dharini'' (2002) *''Pearls of Wisdom'' (2003) *'' Josef – Born in Grace (2019)''

References

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* * Living people Odia film directors Year of birth missing (living people) People from Cuttack Film directors from Odisha 20th-century Indian film directors {{India-film-bio-stub