Perhaps her upbringing played a role in the the kind of filmmaker she has become as a lot of her work is geared towards preservation of nature and tribal life.
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Her latest film, The Waterfall, has been critically hailed for its sensitive approach in highlighting issues surrounding displacement and development. A young city-based lad goes through a metaphoric journey into understanding the value of nature in the movie.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, the filmmaker who is a graduate from the Film and Television Institute (FTI) in Pune, notes, “I am very happy that I have already a dedicated audience for the film. The film has been entirely shot around the Khandadhar waterfalls and in the nearby forests Odisha’s Sundergarh district over a period of seven days."
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Her first national award was in audiography, which she bagged in 2009 for the film Gaarud. Her second national award was for Best Debut Film of a Director, non-feature film category (an Odia film called Eka Gachha, Eka Manisa, Eka Samudra, which translates to A Tree, a Man, a Sea). The director currently lives in Bhubaneswar and we are sure she is already at work, creating her next masterpiece.