Malajahna (1965)
December 10, 1965Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jharana Das
Sati
Geeta Dutt
Nishi
Akshaya Mohanty Kashyap
Nath / Producer
Geeta Dutt
Actress
Manimala Debi
Sati's Mother
Manimala
Actress
Bhim Singh
Nitai Palit
Director
Sarat Mohanty
Laxmipriya Mahapatra
Pira Mishra
Purna Singh
Shibu Singh
Rabi Ray
M. K. Binodini Devi
Lyricist
Akshaya Mohanty
Producer / Music / Playback Singer
Narasingh Mohapatra
Lyricist
Sikandar Alam
Playback Singer
Pranab Kishore Patnaik
Playback Singer
Nirmala Mishra
Playback Singer
Banabihari Dev
Producer
Sriprasad Kanunugo
Producer
Arabind Shadangi Mishra
Producer
Upendra Kishore Das
Story
Kabisurjya Baladeba Rath
Lyricist
Kalyani Bhattacharya
Playback Singer
Nandita Ghosh
Playback Singer
Vishwanath Rao
Mohan Mohanty
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Wiki.
Malajahna (Dead Moon) is a 1965 Oriya film written and directed by Nitai Palit based on a novel of the same title by the Oriya novelist Upendra Kishore Das. The film stars Akshaya Mohanty (Kashyap) and Jharana Das in the lead. Considered as a classic in the history of Oriya cinema, the film deals with an unusual theme in seventies in rural India of love between a married woman and a young man.This love story is narrated in the context of life in rural Orissa infested by superstitions, narrow caste prejudices and acute poverty. Women were like slaves with no mind and choice of their own and child marriages were widely prevalent. The agony and suffering of Sati may be seen as essentially related to the social evils that afflicted contemporary rural Orissa.