'Huge loss to Odia cultural community': CM Majhi on Deah of actor Uttam Mohanty

Delhi: Stager actor Uttam Mohanty, who generally worked in Odia cinema, lost his life on Thursday in Delhi. He was 66. The fabulous actor was admitted to Medanta Hospital and was being treated for liver cirrhosis.

Irrecoverable loss to Odia cultural community

The chief minister of Odisha, Mohan Charan Majhi, called Mohanty's death an" irrecoverable loss to the Odia cultural community." He also blazoned that Mohanty's last solemnities would be performed with full state honors." Uttam Mohanty was like a guiding star in the Odia film assiduity. For over two decades, he remained an unexampled idol in Odia cinema. He was an icon of the Odia art world.

Through his acting in Odia, Bengali, and indeed Hindi flicks, he elevated the Odia film assiduity to new heights. His demise is an irrecoverable loss to the Odia cultural community," he wrote on X. BJP National Vice President and Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda condoled the death of the fabulous actor.

What Baijayant Panda wrote on X

" The end of an period in the Odia film assiduity! I'm deeply saddened and agonized to hear about the demise of Uttam Mohanty, a cherished and famed actor known in every ménage of Odisha.

His inestimable donation to the Odia film assiduity will always be flashed back . Soliciting for the departed soul's eternal peace, I extend my deepest condolences to the grieving family," Panda wrote on his X handle.  Uttam Mohanty starred in over 130 flicks during his career, which gauged further than four decades.

Uttam Mohanty's early life

He began his amusement career with Sadhu Meher's Abhimaan in 1977 and went on to star in successes like Danda Balunga and Kie Jite Kie Haare. The actor also appeared in around 30 Bengali flicks and featured in the Hindi film Naya Zaher. He was fete with the prestigious Jayadev Puraskar in 1999. In 2012, he entered the Odisha Living Legend Award and won the Odisha State Film Award multiple times for his donation to Odia cinema.