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Prashanta Nanda (born 2 May 1947[1]) 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. He is currently a Member of Parliament at Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, for Odisha.[2] He worked in the Odia film industry as an actor, director, screenwriter, lyricist and playback singer. He was also a former minister in Odisha state.[3][4]

Prashanta Nanda
Nanda in TeachAids interview, 2013
Member: 12th and 14th Odisha Legislative Assembly
In office 2009–2014
Preceded by	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Succeeded by	Prasanta Kumar Jagadev
Constituency	Begunia
In office 2000–2004
Preceded by	Harihara Sahoo
Succeeded by	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Constituency	Begunia
MP of Rajya Sabha for Odisha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 April 2018
Preceded by	Dilip Kumar Tirkey, BJD
Personal details
Born	Prashanta Nanda (1947-05-02) 2 May 1947 (age 75) Odisha, India
Political party	Biju Janata Dal
Other political affiliations	Nationalist Congress Party, Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Anupama Nanda
Children	Rhishav Nanda
Occupation	Actor, director, screenplay writer, lyricist, playback singer, politician

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.[5]

He was the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) leader and Odisha state Vice President. He resigned from his membership in August 2007.[6] 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.[7]

Filmography

As a director

Year	Title	Cast	Note	Ref.
2011	Thukul
2009	Jianta Bhoota
2007	Bandhu	Siddhanta Mahapatra, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, Victor Banerjee, Rajatava Dutta
2007	Kalishankar	Siddhanta Mahapatra Prosenjit Chatterjee, Anu Chowdhury, Swastika Mukherjee, Anubhav Mohanty, Victor Banerjee, Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajatava Dutta, Shankar Chakraborty
2002	Om Shanti Om	Siddhanta Mahapatra
1994	Laal Paan Bibi	Siddhanta Mahapatra, Chiranjeet, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta
	Ghar Sansar	Siddhanta Mahapatra
1991	Maa			[8]
1989	Jaa Devi Sarva Bhuteshu
1989	Nyaya Chakra
1988	Lal Paan Bibi
1987	Golamgiri
1986	Bagula Baguli
1986	Paka Kambal Pot Chhota
1984	Dora
1984	Grahasthi
1984	Jaga Balia
1983	Swapna Sagara
1982	Hisab Nikas
1981	Pooja
1980	Maa o Mamata
1979	Naiyya
1978	Balidan
1977	Paheli
1976	Shesha Shrabana

Actor

Music Director

• Ghara Sansara (1993)

Recognition

• In 1962 his debut movie Nua Bou was awarded National Film Awards.[9]
• FitFat Bioscope award, 2005[10]
• Odisha Filmfare Award, 2015 (Lifetime achievement)[11]

Notes

External links

• Prashanta Nanda at IMDb

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