Sahid Raghu Sardar, Daman, Pratikshya won big at State Film awards

Bhubaneswar : The State Film awards for the year 2020, 2021 and 2022 were declared by Odia Language, Literature & Culture Minister Suryabanshi Suraj here at Sanskriti Bhawan, Thursday.

On the occasion the top awardees who won big in multiple categories are ace writer, director and dramatist Anant Mohapatra has been selected to receive the prestigious Mohan Sundar Dev Goswami Award for his lifetime contribution to the Odia film world for the year 2020.

Similarly, senior cinematographer Srinivas Mohapatra and veteran comedian Jayiram Samal will receive the prestigious honour for the next two years.

For 2020 Sahid Raghu Sardar won the award in Best Film category, while Pratikshya and Dalcheeni will get it for 2021 and DAMaN for 2022.

Debasish Patra for Sahid Raghu Sardar and Amlan Das for Romeo Raja were declared winners in Best Actor section for 2020 while the award went to Ankit Kumar and Dipanwit Das Mohapatra for their movies Bhoka and Pratikshya for the next year. Babushaan Mohanty will receive the honour for 2022.

Similarly, the Best Actress honour will be conferred on Kavya Keeran (Sahid Raghu Sardar) for 2020, Suryamayee Mohapatra (Dalcheeni) for 2021 and Lopamudra Mishra (Boura Hatabaksa) for 2022.

In direction, for 2020, Rajesh Samal will get the Best Director award for Romeo Raja while Suresh Patnaik(Trishna) and Sudhanshu Mohan Sahoo(Mayavee) are the winners for next two years.

The event will be held November 17.