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Week-long drama festival concludes

BHUBANESWAR: The week-long Panchapattamali Natya Mahotsav, an annual State-level drama festival being hosted by the National Almunium Company (NALCO) at Damanjodi for the fourth year, concluded on Wednesday.

‘Sanp Sidi’, play presented by Shri Cultural Association of Sambalpur, bagged four major awards. It won the best drama, best director, best supporting actor (both for Satya Ranjan Behera) and best supporting actress awards.

The best play of audience choice was claimed by ‘Ghaa’ that was staged by Abarnigunda Natya Sansad, Padampur. The play also won Ashok Kumar Bohidar the best writer title.

The best actor and best actress awards went to Debabrata Patnaik of Saregama, Nalconagar, Angul for his role in ‘Jiva’ and Gitarani Das of Sursangam Sanskrutika Parisada, Loisingha for the play ‘Kuanri’. Similarly the best comedian award was bagged by Surendra Kumar Padhi of Sampark, Rourkela and best child artiste award by Suraj Prakash Sahu of Saregama, Nalconagar, Angul.

Nisar Ahmed Nisar was announced the best music director for the play ‘Kuanri’ presented by Sursangam Sanskrutika Parisada, Loisingha while Sanjay Kumar Mishra was the winner for best stage craft in the play ‘Pipasa’ presented by NALCO Corporate Office, Bhubaneswar. Special jury awards were presented to Krushna Chandra Das (direction), Lalmohan Swain and Sudarsana Pradhan (actors), Sasmita Mohanty and Sucharita Mohapatra (actresses), Ananya Choudhury (child artiste).

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