Chilika Teerey

Chilika Teerey
Chilika Teerey
Directed by	Biplab Roy Choudhury
Produced by	Shyamghana Roy choudhury
Starring	Bijay Mohanty; Tandra Roy; Sujata Anand; Netrananda Misra
Music by	Shantunu Mahapatra
Production; company	Haragouri Films
Release date	1977;
Running time	164 minutes
Country	India
Language	Odia

Chilika Teerey (Odia: ଚିଲିକା ତୀରେ), is a 1977 Indian Odia film directed by Biplab Roy Choudhury, story of an oppressed, illiterate fisher-folk, being swindled and kept in check by the business sharks and how they revolt back.^[1]^[2]

Synopsis

Nearby Chilika lake, there are cluster of villages inhabited by fisher-folk. They are exploited by the large fishing companies. Raghu a revolutionary village youth leads the village to confront against the fishing company. One fishing company manager Sricharan tries to demoralize & divide the unity of fisher-folk. But the revolution starts with pace. While Sricharan tries to escape from the scene, the villagers thrown him up in the Chilika lake. Raghu, has a love interest with a village girl Padma, but he is not allowed to marry her as she belongs to other caste. At last dejected Raghu hands over the revolution torch to Jadu and leaves with Padma rowing through the lake Chilika in search of new world.

Cast

Bijay Mohanty as Raghu
Tandra Roy as Padma
Netrananda Misra as Sricharan
Hemanta Das as Jadu
Sujata Anand
Ashok
Runu Bose
Akshaya Mohanty Kashyap
Preeti Patnaik
Manju Pradhan
Radharani

Music

Shantunu Mahapatra has arranged music for this film

Awards & Participation

National Film Awards(1978) -Certificate of merit for best Odia film Odia^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Directorate of Film Festival" (PDF). Iffi.nic.in. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
^ Modern Indian films on rural background: social and political perspectives ... - Ram Awatar Agnihotri - Google Books. Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 4 November 2012.

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[autogenerated1-1] "Directorate of Film Festival" (PDF). Iffi.nic.in. Retrieved 4 November 2012.

[2] Modern Indian films on rural background: social and political perspectives ... - Ram Awatar Agnihotri - Google Books. Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 4 November 2012.

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