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God Father (2016 film)

2017 Odia film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ28174140 ↗
Source-derived summary

God Father is an Odia film and is the second release by Chaturbhuja Films. The film was produced by Jugansu Sekhar Panda and directed by Ramesh Rout. The music was composed by Abhijit Majumdar and the dialogue written by Nirmal Nayak. The film stars Siddhanta Mahapatra and Anu Choudhury. It is the highest-grossing Odia movie of 2016 and held the record until the release of Daman (2022). The film's music soundtrack was released in December 2016 by Amara Muzik. The film was dubbed in Bengali.

Plot

God Father revolves around a man who becomes popular in his village by doing good work while surrounded by gangsters who try to ruin his works.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Abhijit Majumdar and released by Amara Muzik.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “God Father (2016 film)” is 2017 Odia film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Father, film and Odia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017. For this dossier, Father, film and Odia is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28174140. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “God Father (2016 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.