The 10th Fitfat Bioscope Award 2013 was bestowed on renowned actor, director, screenplay writer and producer Hara Patnaik for having served the Odia film industry for four decades at a function organised by the Home Video Entertainment at the Saheed Bhawan here on Friday.
The entertainment group along with FitFat Company, a manufacturing unit producing health-boosting capsules, has been giving the award to Ollywood personalities since 2004 for their contributions. The award carries cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a Bioscope of filigree work costing about Rs 20,000. The annual award was earlier received by actors, producers and directors Parvati Ghosh and Prashant Nanda, music directors Prafulla Kar and Swarup Naik, comedy king Jairam Samal, producer Basant Nayak, actor Uttam Mohanty, actress Mahasweta Ray and director Raju Mishra.
Hara Patnaik has given a brand new form of villain in Ollywood. He started his film career in 1977 as an assistant director to Sisir Mishra for the film Suna Sansara. He appeared first as an actor in 1985 in the film Sahari Bagha. However, he ventured into the role of director in 1990 through the film Daiba Daudi. He has never looked back from then and been continuing his prominent presence in Ollywood. Through the Odia film I love you he injected new blood in the industry with the present superstar Anubhav Mohanty’s introduction in Ollywood. Patnaik’s latest-directed movie was Om Sai Ram.