Prashanta Nanda

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{{Short description|Politician from Odisha, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|birth_name = Prashanta Nanda
|name = Prashanta Nanda
|image = File:Prashanta Nanda - TeachAIDS Interview.png
|caption = Nanda in [[TeachAIDS]] interview, 2013
|office = Member: 12th and 14th [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]]
|term_start = 2009
|term_end = 2014
|predecessor = [[Janaki Ballabh Patnaik]]
|successor = Prasanta Kumar Jagadev
|constituency = [[Begunia (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Begunia]]
|office1 =
|term_start1 = 2000
|term_end1 = 2004
|predecessor1 = Harihara Sahoo
|successor1 = Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
|constituency1 = Begunia
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament|MP]] of [[Rajya Sabha]] for [[Odisha]]
| term_start2 = 4 April 2018
| predecessor2 = [[Dilip Kumar Tirkey]], [[Biju Janata Dal|BJD]]
| successor2 =
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|05|02|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Odisha]], [[India]]
|party = [[Biju Janata Dal]]
|otherparty = [[Nationalist Congress Party]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|spouse = Anupama Nanda
|children = Rhishav Nanda
|alma_mater =
|occupation = [[Actor]], [[film director|director]], [[screenplay writer]], [[lyricist]], [[playback singer]], [[politician]]
|website =
|blank1 = Awards
|data1 =
}}

'''Prashanta Nanda''' (born 2 May 1947<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/mlaprofile/1stpage.asp?60 |title=Archived copy |access-date=14 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410005035/http://ws.ori.nic.in/ola/mlaprofile/1stpage.asp?60 |archive-date=10 April 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>) is an Indian National Award Winner Director,Actor and politician from the state of [[Odisha]].Actor-Director Duo [[Siddhanta Mahapatra]] and [[Prashanta Nanda]] Given 8 all time blockbuster Movies to Ollywood,Bechmark which is hard to beat near future. He is currently a [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] at [[Rajya Sabha]], the upper house of the [[Parliament of India|Indian Parliament]], for Odisha.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://orissadiary.com/three-bjd-mps-prashanta-nanda-soumya-ranjan-patnaik-achyuta-samanta-take-oath-rajya-sabha/|title = Three BJD MPS Prashanta Nanda, Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Achyuta Samanta take oath in Rajya Sabha|date = 4 April 2018|access-date = 25 August 2018|archive-date = 26 August 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180826005157/http://orissadiary.com/three-bjd-mps-prashanta-nanda-soumya-ranjan-patnaik-achyuta-samanta-take-oath-rajya-sabha/|url-status = live}}</ref> He worked in the [[Cinema of Odisha|Odia film industry]] as an actor, director, screenwriter, lyricist and playback singer. He was also a former minister in Odisha state.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/13/stories/2007031310650500.htm | location=Chennai, India | title=Actor Prashanta new BJP vice-president | date=13 March 2007 | access-date=20 September 2008 | archive-date=15 March 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315222426/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/13/stories/2007031310650500.htm | work=[[The Hindu]] | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orissauncensored.com/InterviewDetail.asp?id=1&nw=1 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603172632/http://www.orissauncensored.com/InterviewDetail.asp?id=1&nw=1 |archive-date=3 June 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Career==
In 1962, he debuted in the movie ''[[Nua Bou]]''. Nanda worked as an actor, director, screenwriter, [[lyricist]] and [[playback singer]]. Nanda acted as male lead and directed the Hindi film [[Naiyya]] released in the year 1979. In 2009, his film ''Jianta Bhoota'' was released.

In 2007, he awarded with the Lifetime achievement award in Odisha Filmfare Award.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Odia Actor Prashanta Nanda biography, Lifestyles, Height, Weight Wallpapers 2018|url=https://www.mysmartodisha.com/2018/09/odia-actor-prashanta-nanda-biography.html|website=MysmartOdisha - Odisha News, Government / Private Jobs, Odisha Jobs, Biography, Events, Odia Movies|language=EN|access-date=2020-05-26|archive-date=11 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011182809/https://www.mysmartodisha.com/2018/09/odia-actor-prashanta-nanda-biography.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

He was the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'s (BJP) leader and Odisha state Vice President. He resigned from his membership in August 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orissatimes.net/2007/08/crisis-in-orissa-bjp-prashant-nanda.html|title=Orissa News Online: Crisis in Orissa BJP: Prashant Nanda resigned|work=orissatimes.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121163058/http://www.orissatimes.net/2007/08/crisis-in-orissa-bjp-prashant-nanda.html|archive-date=21 November 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> After that he joined the [[Nationalist Congress Party]] and then became a member of [[Biju Janata Dal]].

==Charitable work==
In 2013, it was announced that he had joined other [[Bollywood]] and international celebrities in the [[TeachAIDS]] initiative, a state-of-the-art approach to worldwide HIV prevention, developed at [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Minister of State, Prashanta Nanda, donates his voice for Odia animated software|url=http://teachaids.org/blog/prashanta-nanda|work=TeachAIDS Blog|date=2013|access-date=7 July 2014|archive-date=3 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703013621/http://teachaids.org/blog/prashanta-nanda|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Filmography==

===As a director===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Cast
!Note
!{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|2011
| ''[[Thukul]]''
|[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]]
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|-
|2009
| ''[[Jianta Bhoota]]''
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|-
|2007
| ''[[Bandhu (2007 film)|Bandhu]]''
|[[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Swastika Mukherjee]], [[Victor Banerjee]], [[Rajatava Dutta]]
|
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|-
|2007
| ''[[Kalishankar]]''
|[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]] [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Anu Chowdhury]], [[Swastika Mukherjee]], [[Anubhav Mohanty]], [[Victor Banerjee]], [[Ashish Vidyarthi]], [[Rajatava Dutta]], [[Shankar Chakraborty]]
|
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|-
|2002
| [[Om Shanti Om]]
|[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]]
|
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|-
|1994
| ''[[Laal Paan Bibi]]''
|[[Chiranjeet Chakraborty|Chiranjeet]], [[Satabdi Roy]], [[Rituparna Sengupta]]
|
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|-
|
| ''[[Ghar Sansar]]''
|[[Siddhanta Mahapatra]]
|
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|-
| 1991
| ''Maa''
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|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/cast/5585/index.html|title=Maa|website=Bollywood Hungama|url-status=live|access-date=1 May 2020|archive-date=24 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224144134/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/cast/5585/index.html}}</ref>
|-
| 1989
| ''Jaa Devi Sarva Bhuteshu''
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| 1989
| ''Nyaya Chakra''
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| 1988
| ''Lal Paan Bibi''
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|-
| 1987
| ''Golamgiri''
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|-
| 1986
| ''Bagula Baguli''
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| 1986
| ''Paka Kambal Pot Chhota''
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| 1984
| ''Dora''
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| 1984
| ''Grahasthi''
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| 1984
| ''Jaga Balia''
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| 1983
| ''[[Swapna Sagara]]''
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| 1982
| ''[[Hisab Nikas]]''
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| 1981
| ''Pooja''
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| 1980
| ''Maa o Mamata''
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| 1979
| ''[[Naiyya]]''
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| 1978
| ''Balidan''
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| 1977
| ''[[Paheli (1977 film)|Paheli]]''
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| 1976
| ''[[Shesha Shrabana]]''
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|}

===Actor===
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* [[Ghara Sansara]]
* [[Sindura Bindu]]
* [[Mana Akasa]]
* [[Naga Phasa]]
* [[Samaya]]
* [[Dharitri]]
* [[Mamata]]
* Pooja
* [[Hisab Nikaas]]
* [[Jaga Balia]]
* [[Heera Neela]]
* [[Bagula Baguli]]
* [[Jaa Devi Sarva Bhuteshu]]
* [[Emiti Bhai Jagate Nahin]]
* [[Bohu Haba Emiti]]
* [[Kandhei]]
* Bapa
* [[Swapna Sagara]] (1983)
* Balidaan
* [[Maa O Mamata]]
* Dora
* [[Paka Kambal Pot Chhota]]
* [[Golaamgiri]]
* [[Laal Paan Bibi]]
* [[Panchu Pandav]]
* [[Naiyya]] (1979) .... Sonu
* [[Shesha Shrabana]] (1976) .... Sania
* [[Samaya (film)|Samaya]] (1975)
* [[Adina Megha]] (1970) .... Suresh
* [[Matira Manisha]] (1966) .... Chakkadi
*[[Nua Bou]](1960)
}}

[[File:The Director of DFF, Shri Bhupendra Khaintola felicitated the Director, Shri Prasant Nanda, at the presentation of the film, (Jianta Bhoota), during the IFFI-2010, at the Inox cinema hall, in Panjim, Goa on November 26, 2010.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Prashanta Nanda, being felicitated at [[International Film Festival of India|IFFI]] [[41st International Film Festival of India|(2010)]] ]]

===Music Director===
* [[Ghara Sansara]] (1993)

==Recognition==
* In 1962 his debut movie [[Nua Bou]] was awarded [[National Film Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insideorissa.co.in/movies.php?name=mov|title=Ollywood History and list of Odia films, cinema, movies.|publisher=www.insideorissa.co.in|access-date=2009-03-17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630092200/http://www.insideorissa.co.in/movies.php?name=mov|archive-date=30 June 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* FitFat Bioscope award, 2005<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/15/stories/2008111550880200.htm |title=Other States / Orissa News : FitFat-2008 award for Uttam Mohanty |year=2008 |quote=director and producer Prashant Nanda received the award in 2005 |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-date=15 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315105358/http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/15/stories/2008111550880200.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Odisha Filmfare Award, 2015 (Lifetime achievement)<ref>{{cite news|title=Prashant Nanda conferred with lifetime achievement award|url=http://odishasuntimes.com/2016/02/14/prashant-nanda-conferred-with-lifetime-achievement-award/|access-date=7 January 2017|issue=14 February 2016|publisher=Odisha Sun Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108001753/http://odishasuntimes.com/2016/02/14/prashant-nanda-conferred-with-lifetime-achievement-award/|archive-date=8 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==External links==
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[[Category:State cabinet ministers of Odisha]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian male actors]]
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[[Category:Indian actor-politicians]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha]]
[[Category:Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Odisha]]
[[Category:Biju Janata Dal politicians]]
[[Category:Film directors from Odisha]]
[[Category:Male actors from Odisha]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian film directors]]
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[[Category:Directors who won the Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation National Film Award]]
[[Prashanta Nanda's son]]

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