Nila Madhab Panda is back with his next children's feature film - ‘Bishwa’
Nila Madhab Panda started his celluloid journey with the acclaimed ‘I am Kalam’. His subsequent work focused equally on environmental as well as children's issues. He is excited to steer another project that has a child as a central character. Explaining his recurrent interest in such stories, he says, "India is a country with a 28.6% children population, and yet we have very few films which are children centric or talking about their issues". Debutant director Anuj Tyagi's Bishwa is based on the life of a blind boy and how he emerges as a hero in a village near the mesmerizing Chilika lake. The film has a highly-skilled cast and has Vinay Pathak, Yagya Bhasin, Sharib Hashmi (Family Man fame) and national-award-winning actress Usha Jadhav in pivotal roles. Bishwa is shot entirely in the mesmerizing beauty of Odisha, right before the lockdown started. Nila Madhab Panda, who is born and brought up in Odisha has always shown his love for Odisha through his films. But thi...