By Suryakanta Biswal

Starring Anubhav, Priya, Ajit Das, Hari, Bobby Mishra

Directed By Sushant Mani

Rating : ****

Recently I've seen an odia movie named "ABHIMANYU_ THE LOVER WARRIOR". It is produced by Sarthak Music (Owner- Sitaram Agrawal) which is a renowned company in odia and also bengali non-film cassette market. "ABHIMANYU" is their second presentation to odia movie buffs. It's basically a romantic thriller which is clearly indicated from the title.

It's directed by Susanta Mani (Sanu). It's also his second film as a director. Music by Prem Anandwho recently composed a track for a hindi movie "DEKH BHAI DEKH" (released). Choreography byS.K. Muralidharan (Murali Babu) who has done many odia films as a choreographer and also three films as a director.

Story is not new. We've seen these type of stories in many films of various languages. But the treatment with the plot is new for odia audience. For the first time we can see an odia thriller made with such maturity.

This film'll be remembered for a strong storyline, matured direction, innovative choreography (specially 'janena mun'), stupendous camera work, excellent acting (from lead characters), marvellous dialogues, thoughtful lyrics (specially all the three versions of title song), very good music. In this film, we can see music flows paralally with the storyline. In many cases we see story pauses when a song comes and then story starts when song ends.

There is a suspense in the film which noone can predict. When it happens, you love the film more. Watch it for Mihir Das's remarkable performance. Anubhav improves film by film. This is the career best act of him. Priya is naughty and lovable.

If you can, watch it this weekend. I recommend, you won’t regret paying.