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Rangin Jajabara

1975 film by Akshaya Mohanty, Bijay Mishra

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6124327 ↗
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Rangin Jajabara is a 1975 Odia language Indian movie. The music was composed by Akshya Mohanty. It was produced by Bijay Pattnaik, directed by Akshaya Mohanty, Hemanta Das and Bijay Mishra (Trimurty). The movie stars Sriram Panda, Banaja Mohanty and Tripura Mishra. Jajabar was the first black-and-white film in Odia to be digitally colorized and re-released in the state.

The film's story is based on the nomad lifestyle. The nomad turned into a human being falls in love, fights for love and wins love fighting with many ifs and buts.

Synopsis

Rashbihari Samantrai is a landlord who has two sons Anu and Arup. Anu is an industrialist and plans to start an industry in "Sundari Tota", a place owned by his father and inhabited by rural folks. But Rashbihari had promised to donate "Sundari Tota" to his religious guru for building an Ashram.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rangin Jajabara” as 1975 film by Akshaya Mohanty, Bijay Mishra. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Rangin, Jajabara and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1975 film by Akshaya Mohanty, Bijay Mishra. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6124327. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rangin Jajabara” 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.