Kaunri Kanya

Kaunri Kanya, English: Possessed Girl, is the first 3D Oriya horror film,[1] directed by debutant director Soumya Ranjan Sahu[2] and produced by his brother Ramya Ranjan Sahu.[3] The film stars several debutant actors. The film was also dubbed into Tamil. It is the first Oriya film to feature an underwater sequence[4] which was shot in Vizag. While most of the shooting happened in Surangi, Ganjam, Odisha, the background score and music were done by South Indian artists Satya and Mithun. Prakruti Mishra gives a special appearance in the film. The movie is based around the story of a doctor whose wife gets possessed by an evil spirit. This film explores social stigmas viz. superstition, witchcraft, sorcery and belief of people on casting spells and summoning evil spirits to take girls into possession which leads to murdering of innocent people falsely alleged of practicing black magic.

Kaunri Kanya
Directed bySoumya Ranjan Sahu
Produced byRamya Ranjan Sahu
Screenplay bySoumya Ranjan Sahu
StarringSoumya Ranjan Sahu
Kavya Kiran
Payal
Prakruti Mishra
Rehan
Ashutosh
Bighna
Ardhendu
Sudipta
Music bySatya
Mithun
Production
company
Angel Bee Medias
Release date
  • 20 December 2013 (2013-12-20)
CountryIndia
LanguageOdia

Plot

Akash, a doctor by profession, is transferred to a village. After a sequence of unnatural incidents his wife, Riya gets possessed by an evil spirit. Akash takes help from psychiatrist Doctor Rajiv and tries to discover reasons behind the incidents and his wife's possession. He tries to bring his wife, Riya, out of possession of an evil spirit and that's when he comes to know about Ravi and Anusuya who belonged to the village and loved each other. The villagers killed Anusuya suspecting her for practicing witchcraft.

Track list
  1. Soniya Soniya
  2. Rangabati
  3. Priya Re
  4. Dara Lage

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References
  1. "First Odia 3D Movie of Odisha Kaunri Kanya 3D releases today". Odisha Haalchaal. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  2. List of Odia-language films#2013 in film
  3. "Kaunri Kanya 3D Oriya Horror Film". Incredible Orissa.
  4. "Fear gets a new name". The New Indian Express.
  5. "Kaunri Kanya". OdiaHits.com 2013.


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