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| 'Adina Megha' movie artwork (Image credit: NFAI) |
Released on: 23 January 1970 at Grand Cinema, Cuttack
Directed by: Amit Mitra
Produced by: Babulal Doshi
Production Co: Chhayabani Pratisthan
Story: Kuntala Kumari Sabat
Screenplay: Amit Mitra
Dialogues: Gopal Chhotray
Editing: Madhusudan Banerjee
Adviser: Asutosh Nag (Technician's Studio, Kolkata)
Cinematography: Sailaja Chatterjee
Choregraphy: Krishna Kumar, Guru Ramani Ranjan Jena
Lyrics: Kabichandra Kalicharan Pattanayak, Narayan Prasad Singh, Baikunthnath Mohanty, Gaurang Samantrai
Music: Balakrushna Dash
Cast: Prashant Nanda, Jharana Das, Sandhya, Samuel Sahoo (Babi), Bhanumati Devi, Dukhiram Swain, Niranjan Satpathy, Sagar Das, Shyamalendu Bhattacharya, Tapas Bose, Geeta, Janaki, Padma, Ramaa, Kalyan Ghosh, Bhabani, Bijay, Brundaban, Prabhas, Himashu, Alekh, Tarakant, Srikant Goutam (as child artist) and others
Genre: Musical, Drama
Note: Adina Megha (Odia: ଅଦିନ ମେଘ, English: Untimely Showers) is a classic Odia film directed by Amit Mitra.
Plot:
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| Still from 'Adina Megha' featuring Samuel Sahu, Bhanumati Devi & Prashant Nanda |
When three women enter one man's life, the complications can be as many. Adina Megha. meaning 'Untimely Showers' deals with the love and sacrifice of three women for the same man.
Suresh loves his college mate Champak and therefore declines to marry a village girl, Alka, proposed by his sister in law, Nirada, and guardian brother, Naresh. But, he ends up by marrying Bina under dramatic circumstances. Disgusted with the triangular complication, he takes up a job in another city away from wife Bina and beloved Champak.
One day Champak's father discovers him in his new habitat and begins calling on him, frequently accompanied by his daughter. Coming to know this, Suresh's brother brings Bina to live with her husband. Champak and Bina confront each other. Though startled, Champak offers her necklace to Bina and decides to stay away from their life.
While on a tour, Suresh, meets Alka, who is now marries to Jayakanta, a Customs Officer. It is a fateful meeting, in that very night Jayakanta is killed in an encounter with a gang of smugglers. Widowed Alka sets up an ashram to devote herself to rural uplift.
Bina, now in the family way, is seriously ill and knowing her husband's love for Champak makes a last bid to see him happy. She returns the necklace given to her by Champak and urges to him to begin a new life with the girl he loved.
Champak too is not well and her father decides to move for change for climate. They come to Alka's ashram whose serenity appeals to them and they decide to camp there. Alka learns from Champak's father of Suresh's love for her. Though she herself was rejected by him, Alka becomes the instrument of Suresh's reunion with Champak.
Songs:
- Alapa Hasare Aneka Aasharan (Singers: Sikandar Alam, Akshaya Mohanty)
- Boulo Ki Kahibi Nua (Singer: Trupti Das)
- Ei Bhara Janha Raati (Singer: Akshaya Mohanty)
- Gele Gele Gele Gori (Singers: Akshaya Mohanty, Sipra Bose)
- Jochhana Luchana Dura (Singer: Nirmala Mishra)
- Ei Amara Gaan Sujala (Singer: Nirmala Mishra)
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| 'Adina Megha' audio artwork |
