''Swayamsiddha'' is a 2010

Odia film The Odia film industry, colloquially known as Ollywood, is the Odia language Indian film industry, based in Bhubaneshwar and Cuttack in Odisha, India. The name Ollywood is a portmanteau of the words Odia and Hollywood. Industry In 1974, th ...

directed by Sudhanshu Sahu with a screenplay and dialogue by Dilip Choudhury, produced by Prabhat Ranjan Mallik, and starring

Siddhanta Mahapatra Siddhanta Mahapatra ( od, ସିଦ୍ଧାନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର; born 4 May 1966), known mononymously as Munna Bhai, is an Indian actor, television personality and politician who works predominantly in Odia films. Early and P ...

and Yukta Inderlal Mookhey. The film focuses on the implications for the young mass adopting to

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

insurgency and their sustained alienation from the mainstream as a result. Geo-strategic importance of changing the minds of young people adopting terrorism through love and affection. The film traces the crisis from social trauma to unfair state system encouraging Mao-Naxal insurgency in

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Plot

Cast

as Digvijay * Yukta Inderlal Mookhey as Shreya / Swayamsidha * Sunil Kumar as Raj *

Aparajita Mohanty Aparajita Mohanty is an Indian actress who mostly appears in Odia Film Industry. She started her career with Sita Labakusha in 1980. Apart from big screen, she played various roles in some Odia television serials. Early life and family She ...

* Anita Das * Shweta Acharya * Dushmant *

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Pintu Nanda ‌Pintu Nanda ((; 7 July 1977 – 1 March 2023) was an Indian film and television actor from Odisha. He started his career through an Odia daily soap on DD Odia. Later in 1996 he debuted in Ollywood through Koili. He appeared in more than 115 Od ...

* Prasanna Kumar Patasani * Matru Prasad * Sarojini Rout

Filming location

The film Swayamsidha in fact was shot under very challenging and turbulent situations. Most of part of the film are filming at Naxalite-Maoist insurgency areas in Koraput district of

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state.

Controversy

As the main co-star of the film

is an

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and belongs to the ruling party

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portrays himself as

leader in the film, the opposition parties in the state went on strikes and demanded ban on release of the film. Hundreds of

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activists were arrested for disrupting the screening of the film.

Music

The music of the film composed by Swarup Nayak. The tracks from the film include:

Awards

Mohan Sundar Deb Goswami Mohan Sundar Deb Goswami (, 8 August 1892 – 11 January 1948) was an Odissi musician, poet & composer, a Guru of traditional ''Rahasa'' or ''Rasa'' and film director in Odia-language films. Widely known for his efforts to keep alive the ''Rahas ...

Award * Odisha State Film Award for Best Film * 2nd Etv Oriya Film Awards 2011 Best Actor Siddhanta Mahapatra * Special Jury Award of 2010 in

2nd Tarang Cine Awards The results of the 2010 2nd Tarang Cine Awards, the awards presented annually by the Tarang entertainment television channel to honor artistic and technical excellence in the Oriya language film industry of India ("Ollywood"), are as follow: *Best ...

2011 * Best Cinematographer of 2010 Odisha State Film Award for Best Photography and

2011 * Best Director of 2010 in

2011 * Best Editor of 2010 in

2011 * Best Screenplay of 2010 in State Awards,

2011 * Best sound design of 2010 in State Awards,

2011 * Best

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Film of 2010 in Etv Oriya Film Awards 2011 * Best Director of 2010 in Etv Oriya Film Awards 2011 * Best cinematographer of 2010 in Etv Oriya Film Awards 2011ETV Oriya film award 2011 winners – Entertainment - Orissa News Updates, Orissa, Oriya, Oriya News, puri, bhubaneswar, cuttack, berhampur, rourkela, sambalpur

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1719663, Swayamsiddha 2010 films Films scored by Swarup Nayak 2010s Odia-language films Films directed by Sudhanshu Sahu