Lalita (1949 film)

Lalita
Directed by Kalyan Gupta
Produced by Great Eastern Movieton
Starring Lokanatha Mishra
Uma Banerjee
Sumati Devi
Pankaj Nanda
Music by Kali Charan Pattanayak
Distributed by Great Eastern Movieton
Release date
1949
Country India
Language Odia

Lalita(Odia: ଲଳିତା) is a 1949 Indian folk fore Oriya film directed by Kalyan Gupta.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

King Indradyumna completed a Temple at Puri, but cannot find the living deity Nila Madhaba (Lord Jagannath). he send messengers in all directions to bring him the news about Lord Nila Madhaba. One Brahmin messenger Bidyapati comes across a Savara village in the dense forest and stays there as guest to the Savara King Biswabasu. Bidayapati gets the hearsay about Biswabasu, who, secretly keep the lord Nila Madhaba in a remote cave and worships.Bidyapati pretends to falls in love with Biswabasu's daughter Lalita and finally marry her. . Lalita persuades her father to show her husband, the Lord. Biswabasu agrees and takes Bidyapati to the remote secrete cave. Bidyapati plans to take the deity to Puri, but the deity vanishes at last.

Cast

  • Lokanatha Mishra ... Bidyapati
  • Uma Banerjee ... Lalita
  • Sumati Devi ... Maya
  • Pankaj Nanda ... Bishwabasu
  • Dampdar Das ... Indradyumna

Snippets

It is the second Odia film released after a span of thirteen years from the first Odia film Sita Bibaha. Makhanlal Banerjee was the hero of the first oriya film while his wife Uma Banerjee played the role heroine the second movie Lalita.

References

  1. Review of films made on Lord Jagannath
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  3. Seventy five years Orissa cinema Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. "Songs of Lalita". OdiaHits.com.


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