Mahalakhmi Puja

Overview

Made in the budget of Rs. 85,000, this is the debut film of Sarat Pujari. The tale of Goddess Lakshmi leaving the temple to teach brothers Lord Jagannath and Lord Balabhadra a lesson was presented in the movie. This movie later remade in Hindi as "Jai Jagannath". Prashant Nanda acted as child Shri Krushna. Geeta Dutt was in the Hindi version. Famous singer Hemant Kumar also given voice in this film.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 13, 1959

Original language

Odia

Spoken languages

Oriya

Countries

India

Production

Utkal Chalachitra Pratishtan

Cast

Anubha Gupta,Srikant Mitra,Dhira Biswal,Jharana Das,Bauri bandhu,Sarat Pujari

Director

Biswanath Nayak

Writer

Satyanarayan Panda

Producer

Krushna Chandra Tripathy Sharma

Cinematography

Ramananda Sengupta

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1402559