Maya Miriga
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The Mirage ) is an award-winning Oriya film film directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra
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. When he makes it to the coveted service, the family thinks all their sacrifices have been worth it.
The family gets flattering proposals and the IAS probationer marries a city-bred girl above his status. The unvoiced protest comes from the eldest daughter-in-law Prabha, the beast of burden and kitchen slave. Her husband is a college lecturer. Prabha wonders if the IAS officer’s wife will share the chores. She is proved right when the new bahu defies tradition by opting to stay with her parents when the husband is away on training. With inexorable finality, she carts away her dowry of a new fridge and shiny laminated furniture to her independent home, setting off seething resentment in Prabha’s hitherto submissive mind. Inevitably, she nudges her husband towards independence, and he opts to be deputed to Cuttack
. The bewildered patriarch seeks consolation in stoic acceptance of these changes, ruminating over the younger generation’s break for independence on his walks with a friend who waits for his America
-based son. His is not the Shakespearean tragedy of a Lear — he is too dispassionate for that. But in his very real hurt, he has the comfort of memories to fall back upon just as his two older sons have their future to look forward to. The youngest son, the rebel whose passion is cricket, not only manages to get a first class but shames the IAS brother into financing his higher studies in Delhi
. It is the timid third son whose second division in the all-important exam strands him in the backwaters of mediocrity, with a sense of being a failure and conscious of his father’s disappointment.
English language
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The Mirage ) is an award-winning Oriya film film directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra
Nirad N. Mohapatra
Nirad N. Mohapatra is an Indian film director.Nirad N Mohapatra was born in Orissa, an Eastern state of India. He was the eldest of 7 siblings. His father was a freedom fighter , journalist and later entered politics in independent India. His mother was a teacher in school...
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Story
The story of a family, where three generations live under a decaying roof. The widowed grandmother is the titular head, her son Raj Kishore Babu, father of four sons and a daughter, is the gentle yet disciplined headmaster on the verge of retirement. The father demands of his sons a diligent pursuit of education as the means of upward mobility. The centre of all their hopes is the brilliant second son studying in Delhi to get into the IASIndian Administrative Service
The Indian Administrative Service is the administrative civil service of the Government of India. It is one of the three All India Services....
. When he makes it to the coveted service, the family thinks all their sacrifices have been worth it.
The family gets flattering proposals and the IAS probationer marries a city-bred girl above his status. The unvoiced protest comes from the eldest daughter-in-law Prabha, the beast of burden and kitchen slave. Her husband is a college lecturer. Prabha wonders if the IAS officer’s wife will share the chores. She is proved right when the new bahu defies tradition by opting to stay with her parents when the husband is away on training. With inexorable finality, she carts away her dowry of a new fridge and shiny laminated furniture to her independent home, setting off seething resentment in Prabha’s hitherto submissive mind. Inevitably, she nudges her husband towards independence, and he opts to be deputed to Cuttack
Cuttack
Cuttack is the former capital of the state of Orissa, India. It is the headquarters of Cuttack district and is located about 20 km to the north east of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa. The name of the city is an anglicised form of Kataka that literally means The Fort, a reference to the...
. The bewildered patriarch seeks consolation in stoic acceptance of these changes, ruminating over the younger generation’s break for independence on his walks with a friend who waits for his America
United States
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-based son. His is not the Shakespearean tragedy of a Lear — he is too dispassionate for that. But in his very real hurt, he has the comfort of memories to fall back upon just as his two older sons have their future to look forward to. The youngest son, the rebel whose passion is cricket, not only manages to get a first class but shames the IAS brother into financing his higher studies in Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
. It is the timid third son whose second division in the all-important exam strands him in the backwaters of mediocrity, with a sense of being a failure and conscious of his father’s disappointment.
Cast
- Kishori Devi - Raj Kishore's wife
- Sampad Mahapatra -Tutu
- Manaswini Mangaraj - Prabha
- ManimalaManimalaManimala is an area in the Kottayam district of Kerala in India. The population is about 10,000, of whom the majority are farmers whose main income comes from rubber plantations. The people are from several religions and castes. Manimala and nearby areas are thickly populated by Syrian Catholics...
- Binod Misra - Tuku
- Bansidhar Satpathy - Raj Kishore
- Sujata Mahapatra -Tutu's Wife
- Bibekananda Satpathy
- Shriranjan Mohanty
- Tikina
Crew
- Director - Nirad N. MohapatraNirad N. MohapatraNirad N. Mohapatra is an Indian film director.Nirad N Mohapatra was born in Orissa, an Eastern state of India. He was the eldest of 7 siblings. His father was a freedom fighter , journalist and later entered politics in independent India. His mother was a teacher in school...
- Screenplay - Nirad N. MohapatraNirad N. MohapatraNirad N. Mohapatra is an Indian film director.Nirad N Mohapatra was born in Orissa, an Eastern state of India. He was the eldest of 7 siblings. His father was a freedom fighter , journalist and later entered politics in independent India. His mother was a teacher in school...
- Camera - Raj Gopal Mishra
- Editor - Bibekanand Satpathy
- Music - Bhaskar ChandavarkarBhaskar ChandavarkarBhaskar Chandavarkar was an Indian sitar player, academic and film and theatre composer who worked with directors of Indian cinema, in various languages including Marathi, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam, Mrinal Sen, Girish Karnad, Aparna Sen and Amol Palekar and was known for his blending of Indian...
Review
The director’s muted sympathy for the one who stays back gives Maya Miriga its poignant austerity. The gentleness of the unfolding and the contemplative insights offered into each individual’s feelings and motives, the naturalistic mise en scene enveloped in shadowy sepia tones imbue a familiar, ordinary tale of Indian life with melancholy poetry.Awards & Participation
- Cannes film festivalCannes Film FestivalThe Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
(1984) -Critics Week Section - Mannheim-Heidelberg International FilmfestivalBest Third World Film(1984)
- Regus London Film Festival (28th)
- National Film AwardsNational Film AwardsThe National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.Every year, a national panel...
(1984)- Second best feature film - Los Angeles Film FestivalLos Angeles Film FestivalThe Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times is an event held annually in June in downtown Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles Film Festival began as the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in 1995. The first LAIFF took place over the course of five days in a single...
- Orissa State Film AwardsOrissa State Film AwardsThe Orissa State Film Awards have been conferred by the Department of Culture, Government of Orissa, India.The awards were initied in the year 1968. The awards are decided by independent juries formed by the Department of Culture, Govt. of Orissa...
(1985) -Best Director,Best Film - Locarno Film Festival/ festival di Locarno
- Hawaii Film Festival-Special Jury Commendation