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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Maya Miriga<br />
| image =<br />
| caption =<br />
| director = [[Nirad N. Mohapatra]]<br />
| writer = [[Nirad N. Mohapatra]]<br />
| starring = [[Kishori Devi]]<br />[[Sampad Mahapatra]]<br />[[Manaswini Mangaraj]]<br />
| producer = [[Lotus Film International]]<br />
| distributor = [[Lotus Film International]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Raj Gopal Mishra]]<br />
| editing = [[Bibekanand Satpathy]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1984}}<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| runtime = 120 minutes<br />
| language = Odia<br />
| music = [[Bhaskar Chandavarkar]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Maya Miriga''''', [[English language|English]] ''The Mirage'') is a 1984 award-winning [[Cinema of Odisha|Odia film]] directed by [[Nirad N. Mohapatra]].<ref name="nyt">{{Cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/136985/Maya-Miriga/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521032803/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/136985/Maya-Miriga/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 May 2011|title=Maya Miriga (1985)|access-date=29 October 2008|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Eleanor Mannikka|date=2011|publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]}}</ref><br />
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==Story==<br />
The story is 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 [[Indian Administrative Service]]. When he is admitted to the IAS, the family thinks all their sacrifices have been worth it.<br />
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The family receives flattering marriage proposals and the IAS probationer marries a city-bred girl above his status. Unvoiced protest comes from the eldest daughter-in-law Prabha, 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. She takes her dowry of a new fridge and furniture to her independent home, causing strong resentment in Prabha. 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 [[United States|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.<ref name="screenindia.com">http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020111/fspe.html/{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Kishori Devi]] - Raj Kishore's wife<br />
* [[Sampad Mahapatra]] -Tutu<br />
* [[Manaswini Mangaraj]] - Prabha<br />
* [[Manimala]]<br />
* [[Binod Misra]] - Tuku<br />
* [[Bansidhar Satpathy]] - Raj Kishore<br />
* [[Sujata Mahapatra]] -Tutu's Wife<br />
* [[Bibekananda Satpathy]]<br />
* [[Shriranjan Mohanty]]<br />
* [[Tikina]]<br />
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== Crew ==<br />
*Director - [[Nirad N. Mohapatra]]<br />
*Screenplay - [[Nirad N. Mohapatra]]<br />
*Camera - [[Raj Gopal Mishra]]<br />
*Editor - [[Bibekanand Satpathy]]<br />
*Music - [[Bhaskar Chandavarkar]]<br />
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==Review==<br />
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.<br />
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== Awards & Participation ==<br />
* [[Cannes film festival]] (1984) -Critics Week Section <ref>http://www.screenindia.com/old/archive/archive_fullstory.php?content_id=9457{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1368/year/1984.html</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://passionforcinema.com/india-in-cannes/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-03-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517055846/http://passionforcinema.com/india-in-cannes/ |archive-date=17 May 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
*[[Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film festival]] - Best Third World Film (1984)<ref>http://www.geocities.ws/curlybraces/movies/hindimovies.htm</ref><br />
*[[Regus London Film Festival]] (28th)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114074042/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/event/2901 BFI.org]</ref><br />
*[[National Film Awards]] (1984) - Second Best Feature Film<br />
*[[Los Angeles Film Festival]]<br />
*[[Odisha State Film Awards]] (1985) -Best Director, Best Film<br />
*[[Locarno Film Festival]]/ [[festival di Locarno]]<ref>http://delcinema.it/news/2007-06/locarno_il_giorno_di_bruno_ganz.php</ref><br />
*[[Hawaii Film Festival]] - Special Jury Commendation<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.hollywood.com/movie/Maya_Miriga/228715 Review of ''Maya Miriga'' in www.hollywood.com]<br />
*[https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809362095/cast Review of ''Maya Miriga'' in movies.yahoo.com]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090117163417/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/278802 Casting & Crew of ''Maya Miriga'' in ftvdb.bfi.org.uk]<br />
*[http://www.cinema80.com/movie/maya-miriga/cast Review of ''Maya Miriga'' in www.cinema80.com]<br />
*{{IMDb title|0087697}}<br />
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{{National Film Award Second Best Feature Film}}<br />
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[[Category:1984 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Odia-language films]]<br />
[[Category:1984 drama films]]<br />
[[Category:Second Best Feature Film National Film Award winners]]<br />
[[Category:1980s Odia-language films]]<br />
[[Category:National Film Development Corporation of India films]]</div>imported>SdkbBot